Questions about my AP scores?! PLEASE ANSWER!

Applying to College
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<p>I am a incoming high school senior from New Hampshire. In my high school, most of the classes that would be AP anywhere else, are instead college classes (These means I take college classes taught at my high school and get college credit). Therefore, the curriculum does not exactly prepare us for the AP exam. Despite this, in the past two years, I have taken and gotten the following AP exams and scores:</p>

<p>Biology (3)
Calc BC (2)
Psychology (3)
APUSH (3)
Chemistry (3)
Calc AB (4)</p>

<p>Obviously these are not impressive at all, and my grades in the corresponding college classes were much better, ranging from A+ to B at a reputable high school. My GPA is around 3.5, all my grades average at B+/A-, I am in the top 10% (5.5% percentile to be exact) of my class, I am actively involved in the community/volunteering/extracurriculars-in other words everything but my AP scores are pretty solid. I am planning to apply to Columbia, Brown, NYU, BU, UConn, and UMass. Here are my questions:</p>

<p>1) Do we have to show our AP exam scores on our transcript for admissions?</p>

<p>2) How badly will these scores look on my transcript during college admissions?</p>

<p>3) How badly will it look if I ONLY report my AP Calc AB score, even if I took six college classes that are meant to substitute these AP classes?</p>

<p>4) How will these scores affect my chances of being admitted into the colleges listed above, ESPECIALLY Columbia and the UConn 8-year Medical program?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>What do concurrent credit courses and AP scores have in common? Um yep, that answer would be “nothing.” </p>

<p>On your college applications you can correctly attest that 1) you have taken the most difficult courses available; and 2) that those courses were concurrent credit courses (i.e., courses that were concurrently for HS and college credit); and 3) your grades in those courses were “A+ to B.” As I see it, the AP scores only come into this if you CHOOSE to report them.</p>

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<p>SAT IIs will be more important for Columbia, and will demonstrate mastery of the subjects. Have you taken them, and how are your scores?</p>

<p>Columbia requires 2 SAT II Subject tests–do very well on those and they will probably ignore your AP scores if you choose to report them.</p>

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<p>SAT II’s:</p>

<p>Chemistry: 690
Math II: 710
Biology M: 700</p>

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<p>1) I don’t think so. Some schools say that to be competitive, you need AP and/or SAT II scores; some require the latter</p>

<p>2) Depends on where you go. Getting 3’s on AP tests counts as credit at some schools and for those schools I don’t think 3’s will hurt you one bit.</p>

<p>3) I don’t think Score Choice is available for AP scores, therefore it’s all or nothing (and maybe even all if they appear on your HS transcript)</p>

<p>4) I don’t know, but considering those are highly prestigious schools, I’d say they could hurt you for undergrad admissions.</p>