<p>Does anyone agree that colleges should put a little more emphasis on AP test scores. Everyone on here whenever asked about scores is just like, colleges don’t look at them, it doesn’t matter. In my mind at least I feel that they should matter a whole lot more, I mean it is a grade on a college level course, but thats just me. I feel that in the admissions process AP scores should be more than just validation of class grades.</p>
<p>No, I don’t think so.</p>
<p>They are solely tests that you can take one time per year (unlike the SAT and ACT which are offered multiple times throughout the year). They shouldn’t make or break you.</p>
<p>a 3-hour exam tells the admission nothing about your personality, its graded out of 5, but the people who are claiming it on their apps either got a 3,4, or 5 so its too discrete to be a good characteristic because one could have been a point away from a 5 and one could be a point from falling down to the 3 and they cant differentiate. </p>
<p>More so, the bad test takers are at a huge disadvantage considering the AP is essentially an exam you can’t repeat if you get nervous the first time considering the scarcity of its offereing.</p>
<p>The issue isn’t whether they “should” weight them more or not. The fact is, they DON’T because they find no extra benefit in examining them. Obviously the very selective schools feel they have enough data to successfully select their admittees. It’s not as if anyone is preventing them from using it right? </p>
<p>They don’t see any useful correlations that aren’t already available in the rest of the metrics and statements requested.</p>
<p>I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but collegeboard is always on the defense when talking about APs. All the universities attack AP because it has not been shown to improve performance in college AT ALL. ti’s just something for collegeboard to make money, basically. AP scores arent worth anything, in colelge admissions or out. This is coming from someone with all 5s, and yes, it annoys me off that they are so worthless.</p>
<p>I hope not. I will blatantly say this, as a 1st-time AP taker this year, that there was no way I deserved to do as well as I did on 2 of the 3 APs I took. If those things are supposed to show mastery then my god we are collectively in trouble.</p>
<p>^I second that.</p>
<p>The SAT reasoning and subject tests are much better metrics.</p>