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<p>Stressed, I’m saying that I think AP exams should have little weight, if any, in admissions. High grades in AP courses should mean something about the rigor of an applicant’s schedule and his or her level of academic achievement. But the very fact that so many high-school students can score highly on exams that they have self-studied for says to me that the *exam scores *shouldn’t be worth very much.</p>
<p>Mom2collegekids has probably hit the nail on the head: if you’re applying to colleges that will be impressed with the number of APs you’ve prepared yourself for, you probably don’t need them, and if you’re applying to colleges that won’t be all that impressed, they probably won’t do you too much good. </p>
<p>And if that’s not the way it is, it’s the way it should be, IMO.</p>