Importance of Passing AP tests Senior Year

<p>I was wondering, if you failed one of your AP tests your senior year, can a school like UCLA revoke your admission? Also, should you send a score if you did not pass the exam? Is it mandatory to send all scores?</p>

<p>It is not mandatory to send your scores. Sometimes they are included on your high school transcripts so even if you don’t send them they get sent. But I have never heard of a bad score impacting anything, only a good score doing so.</p>

<p>I don’t think they care whether you passed the exams. You just send them whatever scores will help you.</p>

<p>Note that (as well as I can tell), if you list UCLA as the recipient when taking the test, you can withhold a score only if you take the necessary steps before you learn what your score is. If you don’t list UCLA, you can withhold whatever scores you want after you have received the scores, and when you are asking the College Board to send scores to UCLA. This info is on the CB website, though it is pretty confusing, and you may have to read it several times before you can figure it out. The only clear answer I could find is on the form entitled AP Score Withholding Form.</p>

<p>So, don’t list any colleges at the time you take the test!</p>

<p>P.S. You may also be able to list UCLA at the time you take the test, then file the score withholding form in a timely manner for each test (before June 16), then later tell the CB to send certain scores. I would think it is preferable, however, not to list UCLA when you take the test.</p>

<p>All very confusing.</p>

<p>They definitely don’t care if you pass your AP tests, in fact they would probably prefer you don’t as it means less credit for you and more money for them! And I don’t think you have to send all your AP scores, but there’s absolutely no harm in sending a bad score, they’re only looking at them to give credit for the ones you pass.
When you take them this I know they give you the option to send it to the school for free, and I recommend just doing it if you want credit at all, I’m not sure you can send in senior year AP scores in time if you don’t check UCLA on the test. I’m gonna do it, even though I am positively failing AP Spanish.</p>