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<p>They won’t, which is what I clearly explained in the very first reponse to this thread.</p>
<p>Oh shoot my bad I accidentally skimmed through the first post when I wrote that. I was mainly referring to your second post (and a couple others) like this:</p>
<p>"Incorrect. AP scores do affect admissions in that they provide context to your high school grades. "</p>
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<p>Yes, what you quote is correct.</p>
<p>Well I guess the scores that are reported do affect admission. But those would be the good scores.</p>
<p>^ Yes, but I highly doubt that admissions officers assume the best when scores are not reported.</p>
<p>I know many people who had cases where they took an AP class but not the test. The reason could be simple…the dates conflict (and the make-up date conflicts with something else too), they don’t want to take too many AP tests (if they’re taking 6 AP classes, they might only want to take 4-5 tests so they can study better instead of taking all 6 tests), family emergency, sickness, or technical issues with the school (they forgot to register you for a test). The admissions officers will probably just ignore the whole “taking the AP class but not the test” and move on to the rest of the application</p>
<p>A bunch of people don’t take the exams for one reason or another. At $86 an exam the it actually doesn’t make much sense to take them at all if you know you are headed to any Ivy-caliber school that doesn’t accept AP credit. Universities know this.</p>
<p>Also like I mentioned earlier, somewhere on the UNC blog there is a comment from one of the ad coms about ignoring self-reported scores unless backed up with an official report, whether AP or SAT II. I assume most other competitive schools have a similar stance. Yes, you self-reprt ECs, but there is a big difference between an EC, which takes some creativity to forge, and is usually attested to through letters of recommendation, and test scores, where all you have to do is type in a number.</p>
<p>Also on the SAT Writing front. While you are correct that some schools technically consider it, they put much more emphasis on the CR/M scores. This is because the first group of students who took the SAT Writing just graduated, and colleges don’t have that great data on how writing scores correlate to GPA, retention, graduation, etc. In all honesty it will be another 5-10 years before there is enough data from the SAT Writing for it to have much impact on admissions. This isn’t to say that you can bomb it and get in. Just that so long as you don’t to terrible on it, it won’t have much of an impact, because they have your essays to look at to see writing ability.</p>
<p>I think my AP scores will make the OP feel better. I’m going to Brown.</p>
<p>Calc AB - 5
English Lang - 4
Chem - 4
Art History - 4
Micro - 4
US govt - 3
Stats - 3
Lit - 2</p>
<p>I hated AP and thought every test they had was flawed and terrible tests to determine mastery. Idk if I studied for any AP except art history and micro since they were online and Didn’t remember anything. Still, I would just cram the day before the test (any studying if any). </p>
<p>EVERYONE JUST STOP WORRYING. AP MEANS NOTHING!!!</p>
<p>Ap scores affect admissions, because for example, if you received a 95 or higher in an AP class and then you received a 3 on the exam, the admissions officer is going to wonder what happened. Or vice versa.</p>
<p>swim2daend cannot disprove the statements of dozens of admissions officers with a single anecdote.</p>
<p>^ Touche, silverturtle.</p>
<p>I don’t think your score is that important for colleges. I didn’t even take my AP Eng Lang exam (I suck at English and had a horrible teacher. For example, I didn’t even know what a synthesis essay was until the week before the exam and I never took one) and I still got into every college I applied to (I didn’t apply to Ivies though). So, I took an AP class and not the exam and it didn’t affect my application, so I doubt your 2 will.</p>
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<p>How do you know?</p>
<p>^ Perhaps the colleges piftw applied to do not weigh as heavily the fact he took the class but did not take the exam as some higher-tier schools do. The fact he did not apply to any such schools does not show anything.</p>
<p>Well, my point is that no applicant can know whether something affected their application or to what extent.</p>
<p>A bad AP score will discount a high class grade. A good AP score will make a bad class grade look better. AP scores have a lesser impact than SAT1/2’s but they will not be completely ignored.</p>
<p>^ I believe that sums up years of discussion on the subject. From now on, if anybody asks about the impact of AP scores, let’s just c/p the statement I wrote instead of discussing 4 pages on a minor issue ;p</p>
<p>^ Your statement is correct.</p>
<p>A bad AP score will discount a high class grade. A good AP score will make a bad class grade look better. AP scores have a lesser impact than SAT1/2’s but they will not be completely ignored.</p>
<p>Done.</p>
<p>I just called AP services and asked about regrading. They said that if they noticed that the test was off by one bubble that results in a major error, they do forgive that and give a fair score. Just for anyone else who may face the same issue as me later.</p>
<p>Now should I go for the regrade by hand? I just still can’t believe that I can get a 2.</p>