<p>Hello.
How did you register for AP’s you self-studied?
I contacted College Board about doing this, and they said I should contact schools around my area that have AP Coordinator who can order AP Exams and offer test seating.
I located several AP-offering schools around my area, but I’m unsure how I should go about contacting and requesting to write AP exams through their school.
Do I just phone the AP Coordinator, identify myself, and ask if their school could let me register through their school and write AP exams at their school on May?
Wouldn’t they resist letting me register through their school because I don’t belong to their school?
Even if one school rejects my request, I can still contact other schools until I find one that’s willing to accept me to do this, but I’m just curious what I should do if ALL the schools in my area reject me. Then should I just contact more AP-offering schools outside my area, being willing to travel farther from my home to write them on May?
I would really appreciate it if people who previously went through this process could tell me how exactly their experience was like.
Thank you.</p>
<p>Talk to your school’s AP coordinator. They may or may not be a ***** about it.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t offer any AP courses; therefore, it doesn’t have AP Coordinator. That’s why I’m trying to request other schools’ AP Coordinator to allow me to take exam through their school.</p>
<p>Talk to your guidance counselor, and if they care, they’ll put you through to another school to take the test.</p>
<p>The Collegeboard should have actually given you the names and phone numbers of local AP coordinators. Did you contact AP services, or just some random Collegeboard inquiry thing? </p>
<p>Here’s what it says on the Collegeboard AP site (<a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools):”>Register for AP Exams – AP Students | College Board):</a></p>
<p>"If you are a homeschooled student or attend a school that does not offer AP, you can still take the exams by arranging to test at a participating school.</p>
<p>Call AP Services no later than March 1 to get the names and telephone numbers of local AP Coordinators. Prepare a list of the exams you plan to take prior to calling so that the appropriate Coordinators can be identified.</p>
<p>Contact the AP Coordinators identified by AP Services no later than March 15. "</p>
<p>I called AP services a few days ago, and I got the names and phone numbers of my local AP coordinators. They will usually allow you to test at their school, if you pay the fees, of course, unless the school has some freaky ‘no outsider’ policy. They are usually very nice, so don’t worry. :)</p>
<p>rockermcr: thanks so much for the post.
Do you know if the amount of AP Exam fee varies across local schools, or it is the same for all of them?</p>
<p>It’s the same for all schools because the fee is set by the Collegeboard, and not by individual schools. If you come from a low-income family, and are unable to pay some or all of the fee, I’m sure the Collegeboard has fee waivers like they do for the SAT, but if not, you can definitely find other organizations with funds for these types of situations if you do some research. The AP coordinators that you contact will have all of the necessary information. </p>
<p>I’m Canadian, so we have to pay $100 Canadian, but that’s approximately the same as $83.</p>
<p>I live in Canada.
To sign up for self-studied AP tests, I phoned an AP Coordinator the College Board told me.
Strangely, the AP Coordinator of the school said I could not sign up because I didn’t belong to his school. He knew nothing about giving home school code to people who self-studied, because he said if I wrote at his school, my AP exam score will be recorded as belonging to one of his school’s students.
He also said he never was approached by someone who requested to write self-studied exams. </p>
<p>After being rejected by this first person, I called another AP Coordinator. This person also said that he was unfamiliar with offering AP exams to people who self-studied them, and that he didn’t want his school to become an AP testing centre.</p>
<p>The reason for all this is probably because I live in an area where AP is very rare, and people go “Wow” when they hear about someone taking only 1 AP.
Before contacting AP Coordinators, I kind of expected for them to react like this, since AP is not well-known in my area, but this is really frustrating now that my fear actually became reality. I never knew it would be this hard to sign up for self-studied AP tests.
Could people who signed up for AP exams please tell me how their process of signing up was?</p>
<p>Hmm… This is starting to worry me. I live in Toronto, and I don’t think it should be too much of a problem to sign up for an AP exam. Unfortunately, it’s too late for me to make call any of my local AP coordinators because the Christmas break is just about to begin, but I will do my best to find out some information for you. What city or region are you from?</p>
<p>P.S. The school I am planning on taking an exam at has information on self-studying on their website.</p>
<p>I live in Coquitlam, BC.
All the seven schools the College Board told me to contact are in Burnaby.
Two schools rejected me, and I now have five remaining to contact.
I’m afraid if all seven of them would reject me, making me to contact schools farther away from where I live until I find the one willing to accept me.
Before contacting the two schools, I checked their websites’ AP sections. There was absolutely no information about self-studying.
Thanks so much for your help, rockermcr.</p>
<p>I’m very familiar with Vancouver, because I go there almost every summer. Coquitlam isn’t too far from Vancouver, so if you really can’t find any schools closer to you, you can always go to there. I think it would be worth it to go out so far since the exams only happen once a year…</p>
<p>But what if all of the Vancouver schools nearest Coquitlam reject me because they don’t want to be an AP testing center, just like the two schools in Burnaby?
How high is the probability for that to be the case? </p>
<p>Also, do you know the AP deadline that most schools have?
Would I still be able to sign up in January or February?
I’m worried if I won’t be able to sign up in January or February. That’s why I’m trying to contact AP Coordinators before Winter break begins next week. I heard schools set their own deadlines.</p>
<p>I couldnot take A.P Euro because of schedule problem. My school offers A.P Euro. I asked my Guidance Counselor if I could give the exam by studying all by myself. She told she doesn’t know anything about it. What to do now?</p>
<p>I told my counselor i wanted to self study and take the AP Psych exam. I paid 83 bucks and ill just go on this day to a empty room on ap week and take it. Its simpler than i thought</p>
<p>I contacted my local AP coordinator, and she said that she would be willing to allow me to self-study for the exam, just she wants to know how I plan to prepare/am preparing for it. It’s really quite simple. The chance that there will be no schools that will be willing to let you write an exam at their school is pretty small. I’m sure you will find something. But if you really really can’t find anywhere to go, it’s not your fault and colleges won’t be able to blame you for not taking any APs. Good luck, and I’m sure you will find somewhere to go.
On the CollegeBoard’s website, it says that you have to contact your AP coordinators before March 15th, but I know that some schools set earlier deadlines. Don’t worry too much. A deadline in December is much too early. </p>
<p>digbaji: Tell your guidance councillor to go on the Collegeboard website’s AP section. Particularly the ‘Registering’ part. I’m really surprised at how uninformed Guidance councillors can be. Oh well… Good luck!</p>
<p>arklogic: It is simple! All you need to do is pay the fees and show up where you’re supposed to. </p>
<p>I’d just like to add that if/when you take an exam at another school, make sure that they give you your school code so that your results get sent to your school and not theirs.</p>
<p>Good luck for the third time in a single post!</p>
<p>OMG recently I contacted most (about 40) AP schools in BC but all of those schools’ AP Coordinators said they NEVER did anything like this before so they refused me. Also, most of them said they don’t want my score to be part of their school’s students’ scores. I told them about using home school code which can prevent that from happening, then they asked where I get the home school code. They knew nothing about the fact that the AP Coordinators themselves are responsible for giving home school code to students not going to their high school. How can this many AP Coordinators be so ignorant of these? It’s really frustrating! They don’t deserve to be AP Coordinators at all! Even I can qualify to be a much better AP Coordinator than them! Anyways, there are 152 AP schools in BC, but after going to those schools’ websites to look at their AP curriculum, I found out that approximately 70% of them don’t have all the APs I’m trying to take, so I didn’t bother contacting them. Now I have no hope 
though I still have four schools left to contact…
I used the following for locating AP schools: <a href=“http://www.ap.ca/pages/03_AP_schools.htm[/url]”>http://www.ap.ca/pages/03_AP_schools.htm</a></p>
<p>The school you go to doesn’t need to offer the exam you want to take.</p>
<p>Really? But when I told several AP Coordinators what exams I want to take, they all replied by saying, “Our school doesn’t offer the APs you want to take, we only offer the AP subjects being offered at the school.” Don’t they know about the fact that school I go doesn’t need to offer the exam I want to take, or are they just unwilling to order certain AP exams only for one person? How weird…</p>
<p>Yeah that’s wht i believe they do in my school.
Just order an exam for u, but my school has ap</p>
<p>When I contacted AP services, they said that the school I take the test at doesn’t need to have the exam I need. The level of ignorance among AP coordinators is astounding. I contacted one of them at a school near me before the holidays. She left a message on my answering machine telling me that she would love to let me take an exam at her school, and she told me to call her after the holidays to make all the necessary arrangements. I left three messages in her inbox, and sent her an email, but she hasn’t replied to anything. I’m gonna call other coordinators in my area this week.</p>