<p>I will be a senior in high school next year looking to apply namely to Stanford. My SAT scores are in the right range (2290), and I might retake them because of an average math score. But my question is whether my large amount 4’s rather than 5’s will cast me in a not-so-positive light. The scores are:</p>
<p>On my application it will become clear that my interests lie in the sciences, and I will probably write my personal statement about activities related to environmental science, so do you think that the fact that I didn’t score 5’s in the subjects I’m most interested in will hinder me? </p>
<p>Any advice would be much appreciated, especially related to Stanford admissions.</p>
<p>If your interests lie in the sciences, then your 5s should be in Biology and Environmental science so in that regard, it could hurt you a little.</p>
<p>Colleges don’t even have to see your AP exam scores if you don’t want them to. For some reason there’s this misconception going around that you have to report all your scores and that colleges treat AP exams as if they were standardized tests of achievements like SAT subject tests. They are NOT. They will not hurt you.</p>
<p>Edit: To clarify, you self-report your scores on the application and you can choose which courses/scores to send. You do not send your official AP score reports until after you’ve already enrolled. At least, I’m 99% sure that’s how it works.</p>
<p>But don’t they hurt you a little? If you take all these AP courses and you do not report your scores, won’t the college admissions become a bit suspicious? Making the college admissions committee suspicious of your application just by little can hurt your application a little if you are applying to some of the most prestigious schools in the nation right?</p>
<p>I am a rising senior but my schools (I have gone to two high schools) offered only 2 AP courses TOTAL for both sophomore and junior year combined. I took AP Euro and wasn’t happy with my score of 3 but I didn’t adequately prepare for it so my fault. Junior year I took APUSH and AP English Lang and got 4 and 5 respectively. I only want to send those two scores. Will college admissions become suspicious if I only send in scores from my junior year and send 2/3 scores from an actual AP class?</p>
<p>I’m taking AP Physics, AP Calc, AP English Lit, AP Gov’t, and AP Econ next year because in my city, the schools bombard us with AP classes senior year and senior year only. Hopefully this will help but I don’t know if college admissions will know the circumstances involved. ??</p>
<p>I agree that it’ll hurt a little, but only if you withhold your scores. Just report them; 4s are fine.</p>
<p>They would only hurt you a little if you withhold them because then it looks like you took some random AP course but didn’t put in the effort to take the test. That’s all. Very little impact.</p>
<p>It won’t hurt you at all. AP scores are generally used to receive course credit, etc AFTER you are accepted into college and don’t serve much purpose other than that</p>
<p>Hello, my name is &&&&& &&&&& and i am a prospective student for the Class of 2017. </p>
<p>I have a question regarding how your institution views AP scores on an application. If applicants do not report AP scores for the AP courses they took is this seen as negative towards an applicant? </p>
<p>According to collegeboard, Stanford doesnt even give credit for ES, APUSH, and Bio. And they accept 4’s in physics B so I don’t think you’ll have problems.</p>
<p>AP exams are NOT used as a standardized achievement tests because they were not MEANT to be used as achievement tests - that title would go to the SAT subject tests. They are used for determining course rigor and class placement and little more. They might be used to determine if you performed well in a subject (if you get a C in your calculus class but get in a 5 on the AP exam, then they might excuse the C in the class), but even that’s pretty rare - and usually cases like that they only help you, not hurt you.</p>
<p>Colleges have waaaay more important things to worry about than why John Smith reported some scores as opposed to others.</p>
<p>I don’t think that AP tests will hurt your chances. Even if they do, it won’t be by too much. If you are a good student, a few 4’s on AP tests won’t tarnish your application. It will show that you pushed yourself to perform at a college level, even if you didn’t get 5’s. </p>
<p>Plus, a 4 on an AP test is “well qualified”. You’re still above average, don’t sweat it.</p>