@apraxiamom I’m still confused. How will you see the actual tests?
S will check the site on our state’s release day (Saturday). If it’s anything like the SAT results (College Board owns both) he will see a breakdown of the results at that time.
@apraxiamom The College Board releases the FRQs shortly after the administration of the AP exam, but it does not provide the student with any type of score breakdown. The only information that is provided to the student in his account is his numerical score.
If a student takes the Calc BC exam, he will have an AB sub score as well as his BC score, but that is as detailed as the score report gets. There is no breakdown, for example, on how many points a student received on the multiple choice section vs the FRQ section. There is also no information given on how many overall points the student received.
@homerdog Do you know if the BC Calc test that had the Free response posted was the easier test or the harder? It shouldn’t matter since she got a 5, but she took the non-posted test and thought it was easier. Felt she would have had a more difficult time answering the posted FRQ.
@elena13 What IB did your son take? All of our IB classes were 2 year classes. I do remember trying to get mine to take a 1 year SL class Junior year, but she pushed it so next year is all IB.
Hi everybody, we went on a week-long vacation to the Florida keys and Miami. Whew. Thought I would be okay with the humidity there as we live in so. TX but I was wrong! It was great to not think/worry about all of this stuff here for a week. ;
I’ve spent the last hour trying to catch up here.
@homerdog thanks for the info on the app to see AP scores as we are scheduled for viewing on Sunday. Seems like it should be released by whoever finished first, East coast first then West coast last,etc. No 5s but at least my D19 passed with 3s and a 4. She’s happy with it, especially w/ getting a 3 on the chem one, which her comment on that before taking it was that “everybody mostly gets 2s on it”, and I said then why bother with taking it?! Still waiting on SAT score from June 2 though.
My D will be taking a decent load for her senior year, I see four AP classes listed here. I asked her why she’s taking so many and she said that’s the only way the class is offered, such as AP English Lit. She’s only taking six classes, and I guess that means there’s no lunch period and she would be home around 1:30p. I asked her what she’s going to do with her “free” time. She said she’s going to be doing homework :((
The only other college visit we have on the horizon is to see Texas A & M Galveston, since at least before our Florida vacation D expressed specific interest in majoring in marine biology. They don’t offer marine biology at the main Texas A & M campus, which is fine by me, as it seems that if you want to major in marine related majors, you should be by the water if at all possible. I asked her as we were navigating through seaweed and sea grass in the Keys how she felt about that major after this trip, she was undecided, and I haven’t asked again yet. We are spoiled and squeamish regarding ocean waters. For me, I spent a lot of time in Hawaii, so that’s just that. :-c DH has a work conference in Galveston next month, so we scheduled during that time as we are going to tag along anyway. Hope I can handle the humidity there, I know it’s brutal. We are originally from so. Cal, even after 12 years any weather outside of pleasant is a shock to us.
At this point The List isn’t very stable, and there aren’t any schools that D loves. I’m still scrambling to try to find new schools to look into, but haven’t added any solid options yet. D wanted to go to school out of TX but there aren’t a lot of states she’s willing to go to, so I told her why bother leaving Texas then. I’m looking for some merit aid, not paying OOS tuition at a public, we are not religious and D doesn’t want to go to a school affiliated with religion, although most don’t have mandatory chapel, etc., I saw that Baylor requires it, so that’s out. She should probably should stick to a larger school since she doesn’t seem to know what she really wants to major in.
D19 has summer reading, it doesn’t seem too bad, and she needs to read more anyway. D23 is on a waitlist for a magnet HS, I’m having her do that summer reading and the assignments that go along with it. That D needs projects and assignments, so it’s all good.
I’m enjoying reading about everybody’s experiences!
@peachActuary73 the harder test was the one that they released and that’s the one that our S19 took.
Wow! What a great tip to get the scores early! It worked! Thanks! My D19 will be thrilled when I show her tonight (she’s at work right now). She got one 5 and two 4’s. At the university she wants to go to that will give her college credits plus satisfy some gen eds. (They only take 4’s and higher). Also, the more credits you have to start, the better time slot you get to choose classes (a fact we learned from my S19, which is a huge advantage for semesters to come). She also has more AP classes next year as a senior - so hopefully those will bring more college credits.
@shuttlebus, thanks for the info.
@peachActuary73 - S decided to take SL math since math has become his least favorite subject. The SL class included an AP calc curriculum and then he’ll take AP stats during senior year. He also took IB Psychology as a sort of elective since he decided to drop band this year. His HL classes were Lang, HOA and Spanish (and he took AP physics). How about for your daughter?
We took a mid-week mini vacation to visit my parents for the 4th. Not a single college campus visit, not even a drive-by! It was nice to get away for a bit, hardly any social media at all.
I’m glad I came back to that bit of advice about Puffin, thank you! Kiddo got a pair of 4s on Lang and Psych, which I think he will be happy with once he wakes up. After all the driving and gadding about the last 3 days he’s unlikely to wake up before this afternoon.
So, I live in one state and work in another. Tried to check College Board today as it is the official day that scores are released for the state we live in and where S19 took the test, which the College Board system knows. Because I checked from my office desktop from the state I work in, it will not show me the scores. Because the state I work in releases tomorrow.
Apparently, the staggered release depends on where your computer is located and not the state where you took the test. Whatever, College Board. Beef up your servers. #puffinforlife
@elena13 She is doing HL HOA,Lang, and Math (took BC exam), SL Spanish, Psych, Env Sci. But both Psych and Env Sci are Senior Year, so it’s all IB all the time.
oops, reading comprehension failure, never mind.
we just the AP scores early and son found out he got a 4 on AP Stats. He got an A in the class, so he was hoping for a 4 or 5. He was satisfied with a 4. I don’t know if he’ll ever get to use the score to waive out of a class in college anyways, but was happy for him.
His report card came out too, and he had a pretty decent year and it will help bump up his overall GPA. I’m happy he made it through junior year!!
D19 got all 4s in her three APs and was disappointed. Had been led to believe through various tests and assessments throughout the year that she was on track to get at least one 5. She was grumpy for hours about it yesterday and still doesn’t want to talk about it. My S21 returned from a 6-day backpacking trek off-grid and asked her mid-dinner about her scores and she just scowled. Sigh. The only thing that perked her up was a trip to the mall for an 11th hour shopping trip to get a new outfit for her senior yearbook portrait session today. We have only one photography studio we can use for the yearbook pics so it was just a matter of calling in and showing up. I got the cheapest possible package because one of D19’s splurges for senior year will be a real outdoor photo shoot for all the family with a professional. She’s been looking forward to that for years.
Still no progress being made on anything truly college-related. I don’t think she likes the whole topic. She was asked by the photographer today where she wants to go to college, which is the Question Du Jour lately, and she said “maybe a liberal arts college,” so the answer seems to change depending upon the day. Normally she manages to be even more evasive than that. Basically gives the parent’s favorite “We’ll see…” answer…
We’ve finally got a heat wave here in southern California so it’s our turn to bake, I guess. I’m not used to it at all after a wonderfully mild May and June, so I’m very wilty today. D19 and I leave in two days for a 6-day trip to visit family and colleges. Tomorrow D is doing a mock interview with my friend in preparation for three interviews in six days. She’s not going to necessarily be an amazing interview, so one could argue we should’ve skipped these, but I’m hoping she at least holds her own. Plus there’s some chance she won’t even end up applying to two of the schools, and those are the first two on the tour, so perhaps this will just be practice. And if she really hates the experience, we can skip nearly all the others. I think only one of her schools strongly recommends an interview.
Kinda not looking to the release of the June SAT next week…after watching D19 mope for hours yesterday in response to her AP 4s, I anticipate more moping because I think it’s unlikely her scores changed much from March. They weren’t budging a bit in her practice tests leading up to that, so it’s probably going to be more of the same…and she will grump out. I’m thinking of waiting til we return from our trip and check them a few days late.
@SDCounty3Mom 3 4’s are good, she should be satisfied with those scores. It shows you learned a lot of material from the class.
My son didn’t do any prep work or studying for Stats, so the 4 was fine. He thought he had done pretty good on it, so maybe he just messed up a few things. Oh well. I don’t think his AP scores are going to swing anything in his favor nor hurt him. I don’t even know if he’ll report them, maybe.
Next week is our school photo day too.
All the talk about 4s and 5s on AP tests, so I’ll say that my daughter got 3s on both of hers, one of which was disappointing (world history) and the other of which was surprisingly high (stats), and both of which match her previous AP exam (calc AB).
Getting 3s underscores how…well, weird AP credit is. Looking at various schools on her list, for her three exams, she would get no credit from a school like Lehigh or Worcester Polytechnic Institute, sure, but also St Mary’s (Texas)—but she’d get a one-course equivalent for each of those exams from both West Virginia and Western Washington. But it gets weirder: With her scores, she’d receive a one-course equivalent for both calc and history but not stats from Mississippi State, while at Iowa State she’d get a one-course equivalent for only stats.
Seriously—I mean, seriously seriously—I’m starting to believe that these thresholds are just made up off the top of people’s heads.
@infinitewaves we had the same problem today too! Grrrr
@cakeisgreat Can’t you just download the Puffin app on your phone and then sign into your College Board acct? It took me all of two minutes to get S19’s scores. Grab the app on your phone and it’s so easy!
My S19 got his scores early and felt pretty good about his results- 5 in World, 4 in Calc AB and Spanish and an 3 in Lang. He thinks he could have done better in Calc as he got a 5 on a practice test. Lang is not his strong suit but his best subsections on the ACT were Reading and English, so go figure. I guess he will self-report all but Lang, but not sure at this point.
Scheduled a visit to Wake Forest for the end of August and it’s their orientation week, so there’s an info session but no student-led tour. We will cancel that and have to make an effort to visit another time. He is holding steady with a list of 6 schools. We have a summer meeting with his GC at the end of July so he may offer a little more advice about adding another 1 or 2 schools.
He is off to a sleep-away dive camp tomorrow at Indiana University, which should be a blast. Maybe he will like the campus and consider applying there.
Question for you all: Coalition App or Common App when you have a choice? One school is Coalition App only and with some of the others you can submit either.