Report AP scores or not?

Techno13
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:11:01 +0000

S23 is applying to several top schools. GPA (UW) 4.0 (W) 4.6, Rank 6/400. 35 ACT. Prospective major: economics. ECs: pretty good. He has taken 6 AP courses so far and is taking 6 more this year. But, he has only taken 3 AP exams. He took only 1/2 his COVID virtual learning year b/c he they only had 50% of the class time compared to a normal year so preparation was poor. The next year he took 2/4 exams because he felt the most prepared for those and preferred to focus where he thought he would succeed.

He has 4,4,5 to show for it in AP World, APUSH, AP Stats. Should he report these and mention somewhere that he didn’t take them all. I’m afraid if he reports only 3 incorrect assumptions will be made. Should he report none of them? Seems if SAT/ACT are not required anywhere why would AP exams be? This year he plans to take 4/6 of the exams but one is portfolio only, no real exam.

Advice appreciated.