Should my kid cancel an AP score of 1?

[Anonymous]

My rising senior just got a 1 on an AP exam. All of their other scores are 4s and 5s. From looking at the College Board site, it looks like the score can be canceled - just deleted from their record entirely. Before we proceed, is there any risk or downside to doing this? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Cancel.

Either the student was sick that day or the student mis-bubbled his/her answers.

[Anonymous]

Cancel, everybody has a bad day.

[Anonymous]

Wow, what? Is there a way to ask for it to be regraded to make sure this wasn't a mistake? Or are they other AP scores all in history etc and this one was a hard stem subject or vice versa?

[Anonymous]

My DS did. Different situation because it was senior year exam but we needed to send the other scores from college board for the 6 he was requesting credits to his college anyway so went ahead and paid the fee to cancel (one 1 and one 2) I know that it would not have made any difference in admissions but still didn’t like that the school seeing in case it is judged in some future school decision like grad school, etc. likely waste of money but we did anyway. In your case, obviously will not include 1 score on self reported AP scores in applications but might want to cancel anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, what? Is there a way to ask for it to be regraded to make sure this wasn't a mistake? Or are they other AP scores all in history etc and this one was a hard stem subject or vice versa?

It was definitely their weakest class, but a 1 was a surprise (we all thought it was likely a 3.) Their regrading policy is to move you up only one point, so to go from a 1 to a 2 seems kinda pointless.

[Anonymous]

Didn't know we can cancel AP scores!

DC got a score of 2 on one of their exams. If and we do send scores to schools, do we have the ability to not report on one or more subjects?

Also, on the common app, is it OK to just self-report on the subjects they did well (3 and above) and leave out the twos?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, what? Is there a way to ask for it to be regraded to make sure this wasn't a mistake? Or are they other AP scores all in history etc and this one was a hard stem subject or vice versa?

It was definitely their weakest class, but a 1 was a surprise (we all thought it was likely a 3.) Their regrading policy is to move you up only one point, so to go from a 1 to a 2 seems kinda pointless.

The regrading policy is not only to move the student up one level, but it is limited to re-scoring the multiple choice by hand. Since there is no transparency as to what the actual problem was with the test, it is hard to know whether rescoring will help.

[Anonymous]

rescoring can also bring the grade down. I just sent in forms for my kid who got a 3 full in the knowledge it could drop to a 2. But it's worth the punt.

[Anonymous]

We canceled a score in the past. But I remember realizing that we did not have to while we were sending the scores to colleges, because you pick which scores you want to send anyway.

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain what the point is in cancelling, esp since it appears there is a cost for that, when you can just select the scores you want to send to colleges and omit the scores you don’t?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what the point is in cancelling, esp since it appears there is a cost for that, when you can just select the scores you want to send to colleges and omit the scores you don’t?

Theoretically if a college required submission of all AP scores on the record, then cancelling still complies with that.

[Anonymous]

If you choose to submit scores to Georgetown (which is optional), they want to see all of them, so canceling a score gets around that.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think there is a cost to cancel.

[Anonymous]

Is there a limited time period for canceling? I would get rid of the 1 if possible.