colleges' policy for sending scores

ellicott
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:04:43 +0000

Thank you Chedva for the response.

“Colleges also realize that (1) not all students have access to AP courses; (2) not all students can afford the multiple AP exam fees; and (3) many students don’t take their AP exams until the spring of senior year.”

AP scores are not used for comparison across schools. It is used for comparison in a school. If a school has 15 seniors applied for MIT, and student A took 3 APs and student B took 8 APs. The difference of Their workload are huge. Does these information should be hiding during the admission process? If it is not, then accuracy of these AP Scores should be considered seriously, not based on self-report.

I do notice the college’s policy, but just do not understand the merit behind the scores.