<p>I didn’t do too well on my 2 AP scores (never studied), but i did fairly decent on my SAT 2 scores. I got a pretty good score on ACT and very good GPA and class rank. So here’s my question, just like the title, does Emory judge the difficulty of my school by my AP scores or my ACT (SAT, SAT2, GPA) scores?</p>
<p>since all students don’t have AP scores before their senior year, they aren’t normally used. if you do well on AP tests, they will note that, though.</p>
<p>they judge the dificulty of your school based upon the fact sheet that the registrar of your high school sends with your transcript and their prior knowledge of your high school.</p>
<p>As dgebll indicated, AP test scores are not normally used as a determinant for admission, although if they are available, most adcoms will at least consider as a plus if you have high scores. The AP test scores can be used at Emory for college credit, if the test scores are a “4” or a “5”. (These scores will need to be submitted to the school directly by the College Board’s reporting service.) The rigor of your academic curriculum is judged in part through the number of AP courses that you have taken and the grades you have have achieved.</p>
<p>How Emory’s Admission department (and other college adcoms) often evaluate a school’s rigor is through past history as well as using a high school’s “School Profile” (I believe this is what dgebll refers to when he mentions “fact sheet”), which is a document provided by many Guidance Counselor’s as part of their “recommendation”. Because there is so much turnover in counseling staffs at secondary schools, especially with public high schools, as well as limited funding available to hire needed guidance counselors, most adcoms recognize that a GC’s “recommendation” may have limited value. At some public schools, even good ones, many students have no more than 1 or 2 meetings each year with their guidance counselors. The School Profile provides a good reflection of a school’s general academic makeup. The School Profile can mitigate such events as a change in guidance counselors right before senior year; the fact that some schools offer only a limited number of AP courses; or the relatively high academic competitiveness at an academically excellent school.</p>
<p>Reference this link about High School Profiles (with examples) at the NACAC (National Association for College Admission Counseling) website:
<a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/MemberPortal/ProfessionalResources/High+School+Profiles.htm[/url]”>http://www.nacacnet.org/MemberPortal/ProfessionalResources/High+School+Profiles.htm</a></p>
<p>A tangent topic is the controversy that has arisen from a decision by Emory’s Admissions and Scholarships Committee to cap the number of credits that students can receive outside the University (e.g., AP credits) at 32 hours.</p>
<p>Here’s a link to an article/editorial in the Emory Wheel:
<a href=“http://www.emorywheel.com/media/storage/paper919/news/2006/12/12/Editorials/Our-Opinion.A.p.Awful.Policy-2532357.shtml?norewrite200701091213&sourcedomain=www.emorywheel.com[/url]”>http://www.emorywheel.com/media/storage/paper919/news/2006/12/12/Editorials/Our-Opinion.A.p.Awful.Policy-2532357.shtml?norewrite200701091213&sourcedomain=www.emorywheel.com</a></p>