Does One bad AP score affect Admission

cvisser320
Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:46:58 +0000

I think that you have challenged yourself by taking so many AP classes and done well on most of them, which will look very good for college admission. You also have plenty of volunteer work and extracurriculars, so I imagine you will be a very competitive applicant. I am in a similar situation as I got a 2 on AP World History and I want to go to UPenn. My solution is that I am going to take an SAT II Subject Test on the matter to prove that I understand it. Sign up for a Computer Science one if it is available. Don’t worry-many people have reassured me in the last day that one score in an AP that isn’t related to my major won’t make a difference in my admission to highly selective colleges.

As for the top UC’s-I would imagine you have a very good shot for UCLA, UCSD, and UCSB and a decent shot at UCB. I have heard of people getting into Ivies but not UCB but it’s definitely worth the shot. Good luck to you in the admissions process!