<p>This happened to me and i really want to go to MIT, is it still possible?</p>
<p>There’s no one thing holding back anyone from MIT. They look at your application as a whole to decide. You could probably get a 500 or lower on the writing section of the SAT and still get in. You could probably get a low score on SAT II’s and still get in. They won’t hold this against you.</p>
<p>Yes, absolutely, you can get in with a 1. Furthermore, AP’s scores are not seen or used directly for admission purposes. One important caveat that collegealum314 has made before is that your college counselor/teachers will see that 1 and that may indirectly impact admissions through your recommendations.</p>
<p>In all honesty, a 1 could very well keep you out. You aren’t giving us enough information. If that score is a demonstration of an inability to grasp some subject that is important at MIT (single variable calculus, for instance, or perhaps mechanics), and you don’t show you would be able to handle such coursework elsewhere in your high school career, then the 1 might play a significant role. </p>
<p>That being said, the likelihood of that being the case is low because you’re a freshman, and that leaves you plenty of time to make your 1 factor absolutely nothing into admissions. In fact, it may already factor nothing into admissions at this point if, say, it were on the Music Theory test.</p>
<p>I don’t think it could keep you out. Maybe if you get a 1 on every AP test you ever take… but not just one in freshman year.</p>
<p>It’s going to be a bad mark on your application - but if your following years show higher scores, it shouldn’t be a problem. (And make sure that you don’t spend all your time with the books - perfect scores won’t get you into MIT. Doing something with yourself will.)</p>
<p>I’m sure that if we polled enough current MIT students, we could find somebody who got a 1 in something, reported it to MIT, and still got in. Since MIT admits holistically, it’s tough to pinpoint single factors that will kill an application in absolutely all cases.</p>
<p>Still, that’s not to say that a 1 on an AP test is a good thing, or that we can guarantee it won’t be a factor. Everything depends on the rest of the application.</p>
<p>you can retroactively cancel AP scores</p>
<p>Not after you’ve already gotten them…</p>
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<p>Not really. As long as you don’t request to cancel during your senior year (if you don’t make the request by June 15, it gets sent to colleges - but this wouldn’t matter, since MIT’s AP policy is self-reporting), you can cancel your AP score at any time. I remember it was quite a fee though. </p>
<p>[AP:</a> Grade Reporting Services](<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>View Your AP Scores – AP Students | College Board)</p>
<p>Ahh, ok.</p>
<p>And the fee is essentially however much you spent to take that AP test, now that you have nothing to show for it.</p>
<p>It’s not great, obviously. But I would only say that it’s a real problem if 1) it’s in a core MIT subject, and 2) there aren’t other indicators that it was a fluke and that you do have the ability to succeed in that subject.</p>
<p>For instance, if you got mostly As in your math classes, including your AP Calc class, and an 800 on your SAT II Math IIC test, but you got a 1 on your actual AP Calc test, it would be reasonable to infer that you had a really poor calculus teacher (since you apparently were performing great in his/her class despite not understanding the subject at all), or that you were sick on the day of the test, or just had a really bad day, or something similar, and it probably wouldn’t hurt you. Because the other evidence provided indicates that you do have mathematical ability.</p>
<p>dont report it…or just take more AP tests than the number of spots on the application for MIT…and report your best scores…</p>
<p>besides like everyone already said, AP scores dont really make a difference…until you are accepted.</p>
<p>What about the fact that you took the AP Freshman year. I’m sure the admissions officers are more interested in the fact that you took the challenging course, and they grade you received over the whole year, rather than how you performed on that particular day. </p>
<p>I rocked 3’s in English and US History (and an embarrassingly low SATII English score), and when I saw my admissions profile freshman year there wasn’t any mention of them negative or positive.</p>
<p>You can retake AP tests. That’s easily done for any test you took freshman year. Most freshmen take none at all.</p>
<p>Lol, I actually got a 1 in BC Calculus… junior year. I’m going to MIT.
There’s no one thing that will keep you out or get you in. It’s all about the big picture.</p>