<p>It would never hurt you to have a good AP test score. My dad always tells me that the AP test scores are how the assess the validity of your grade. If you got an A in the class but then a 2 or even a 3 on the AP exam, admissions officers will probably look at that as a large disconnect</p>
<p>But colleges won’t know what you got on the exam! How can admissions officers look at scores as a large disconnect if you don’t tell them? You tell them if you want to.</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>Ha! My freaking transcript lists AP scores, SAT scores, SAT subject test scores, and North Carolina End-of-Course grades. For me, my transcript just goes ahead and tells them!</p>
<p>At the same time, I feel like schools would not mark that against the student if they got an A in a course but a 2 or 3 on the AP exam: that evaluates the ability of the teacher to teach the proper material, which does not necessarily have to do with the student. Now, if the student took the AP courses in the school with the lowest pass rates consistently, it might start to look suspicious. But I doubt if any school found it upsetting that I got a 3 on my music theory exam after getting an A in the class: that teacher hardly covered enough material to scrape a 2, if I want to be generous. I worked for my 3! 
And, for the record, reported it to all my schools with pride!</p>
<p>“not good timed test takers” </p>
<p>in the politest way, what bs, especially with the AP exams that are focused mostly on regurgitating information and procedures… I could see that argument in English, perhaps, but not really the other tests.</p>
<p>whatever small discrepancies there may be in the test results, there are huge ones in AP courses that not only may not fit a student’s learning/testing style, but also vary in grading, curriculum, teacher, funding, general classroom attitude towards learning…</p>