<p>I’ve already chosen/enrolled into the college I’m going to (Yale). However, I did not do too well on my 3 AP tests senior year; I won’t be able to get credit for any of them.</p>
<p>Scores: English Lit (4), Calc BC (2! w/ a 3 subscore for AB), and Spanish Lang (3), Chem (5), Bio (5). I was surprised by my English score slightly, expected the Spanish score, and was shocked by the calc score. I wasn’t feeling well the day I took the test, but I didn’t realize it would end up making such a big impact.</p>
<p>Anyways, I obviously plan to take intro level calculus again at Yale, and I was thinking of just starting a new language (but I’m not sure about that).</p>
<p>My main concern, though, is I was thinking of doing the directed studies program. I was admitted, but will a 4 hurt me? I ask b/c on Yale’s table that shows whether or not you get credit for certain AP scores, it shows your eligibility for DRST 01 (which I’m assuming is one of the directed studies courses) if you get a 5. Will the revoke my admissions to the program?</p>
<p>I think it woule better if you posted this on the Yale forum, since you will get more responses from those who know Yale’s policies there.</p>
<p>They matter for getting credit for classes, but no they won’t rescind you over an AP score, that would just be silly. If I am correctly interpreting what you said about the table, you will just have to start with DRST 01 instead of 02.</p>
<p>AP scores don’t affect your eligibility for DS, but regardless of your scores you take all three classes (DRST 1, 2, and 3) concurrently, or take none at all. </p>
<p>AP scores don’t help that much unless you plan to graduate early (then you can get credit for them), but they can place you out of some intro level classes. I took the AP bio exam this spring to place out of the intro bio sequence, and i’m currently an undergraduate at yale. Also, sometimes AP scores can be useful after college, like in satisfying some prereqs for medical or dental school.</p>
<p>AP scores sooo don’t matter at Yale…honestly, most departments don’t even give you PLACEMENT. The one exception is Chemistry, and you got a 5 anyway. </p>
<p>As for Calc, it realllly doesn’t matter…see, Yale doesn’t care about your AP score. They make you take their own placement test anyway, haha. </p>
<p>For languages, yeah a 4/5 on Spanish would have been nice (since you’d get placed into L5 and only need to take one more class). But not all hope is lost! You can also take a placement test for Spanish (and hopefully you’ll feel well this time) and you can place into L5 anyway…plenty of people do that. </p>
<p>So yeah, if placement in math/Spanish is important to you, you might want to skim over your textbooks right before you head over to the 'Have this fall…placement tests are the day after move-in day, unless I’m mistaken!</p>
<p>Also, DRST 02 is not “higher” than DRST 01…DRST 01/02/03 stand for some combination of literature/philosophy/history & government. And a 4 on the AP is fine, besides they already admitted you to DS based on your essays/application. As long as you feel comfortable doing it, go right ahead!</p>
<p>P.S. I’m all for taking a new language…Yale offers some awesome ones, like Kiswahili, Hindi, Mandarin and Farsi!!</p>
<p>One small point to clarify for anyone else potentially reading this thread. Yale got evil this year and upped the Spanish Lang req to a 5 (instead of 4/5) for placement into L5 without Yale’s placement test, and this is after the AP test got harder…</p>