Colleges with Spaces for AP Scores on Their Applications

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<p>I saw a thread recently in which a student was asking about the usefulness of AP tests. One statement in that thread was that AP tests have no role in admissions, and I was sure that overstated the case, so I looked up some college admission forms (often, supplements to the Common Application) that have spaces for students to self-report AP test scores. Here are some links to such forms.</p>

<p>Caltech: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/uploads/File/CommonApp/application2008/Supplement08.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/uploads/File/CommonApp/application2008/Supplement08.pdf&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Harvard: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/electronic_resources/download/Rollo0708App_onlinesupplement.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/utilities/electronic_resources/download/Rollo0708App_onlinesupplement.pdf&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Yale: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/pdf/yale_supplement.pdf[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/pdf/yale_supplement.pdf&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Princeton: </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/PU_0708_comsupp.pdf[/url]”>http://www.princeton.edu/pr/admissions/u/appl/pdf/PU_0708_comsupp.pdf&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>Duke:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/PDF/FormA_modifiable.pdf[/url]”>http://www.admissions.duke.edu/jump/applying/PDF/FormA_modifiable.pdf&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>I checked some other college Web sites, and on those sites the forms were either unavailable on this date or mentioned nothing about AP scores. It appears to mostly be the “usual suspects,” the colleges that are hard to get into with perfect high school grade point averages, that care about AP test scores.</p>

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<p>Adding on to the previous post:</p>

<p>Scanning my printed college apps, I have - </p>

<p>UC system (unlimited space)
Boston College (space for 4 exams)
Northwestern (space for 3 exams)
Brown (space for 4 exams)
Duke (space for 6 exams)
UPenn (space for 7 exams)
MIT (space for 12 exams)
Caltech (space for 5 exams)
Columbia (none (!))
Yale (unlimited space)
Harvard (space for 6 exams)
Princeton (unlimited space)
Stanford (space for 6 exams)</p>

<p>I guess you can say that they are all quite selective schools, so the vast majority have spaces for AP exam scores.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the additional information, oasis. </p>

<p>BTW, now that you are admitted to college, do you mind mentioning what high school you went to in Taiwan? We used to live there; we were the only Western homeschooling family, and possibly the only homeschooling family, period, in Panchiao when we lived there.</p>

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<p>I attended [Morrison</a> Academy](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Academy"]Morrison”>Morrison Academy - Wikipedia), in Taichung.</p>