Scored 2 for AP Calculus - Cancel?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

My kid also just received a very disappointing 2 on his AP Calc.

My question is, can he send some scores but not others to colleges? Apart from this one, all his other scores are 5s.

The College Board website says we're too late for withholding or canceling this score - the deadline was June 15th, but he didn't have his score then.

Is your child entering college in Fall 2022? If so, you are too late... the scores are sent. If not, you are not too late. It's whenever the kid is going off to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My kid also just received a very disappointing 2 on his AP Calc.

My question is, can he send some scores but not others to colleges? Apart from this one, all his other scores are 5s.

The College Board website says we're too late for withholding or canceling this score - the deadline was June 15th, but he didn't have his score then.

Is your child entering college in Fall 2022? If so, you are too late... the scores are sent. If not, you are not too late. It's whenever the kid is going off to school.

PP you replied to. Thanks! DS is fall '23, and wants to send AP scores to his preferred schools for the Early Action deadline of Nov 1st.

Just want to update everyone. I called the College Board.

Withholding:
The June 15th deadline is for students who elected to send scores for free. It's $10 per score per institution. For others, there's an added $15 standard or $25 rush "delivery fee" (really grasping at money, these guys). Which makes it $25 or $35 per score per institution. Respectively one or two week processing from reception of mailed request.

Cancellation:
Same June 15 deadline as above for students who chose free reporting. Free of charge. Permanent deletion of scores, you can't ever bring them back. Two week processing from the moment they get your mailed request.

DS did not pick free reporting, so it sounds like we're canceling!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My kid also just received a very disappointing 2 on his AP Calc.

My question is, can he send some scores but not others to colleges? Apart from this one, all his other scores are 5s.

The College Board website says we're too late for withholding or canceling this score - the deadline was June 15th, but he didn't have his score then.

Is your child entering college in Fall 2022? If so, you are too late... the scores are sent. If not, you are not too late. It's whenever the kid is going off to school.

PP you replied to. Thanks! DS is fall '23, and wants to send AP scores to his preferred schools for the Early Action deadline of Nov 1st.

Just want to update everyone. I called the College Board.

Withholding:
The June 15th deadline is for students who elected to send scores for free. It's $10 per score per institution. For others, there's an added $15 standard or $25 rush "delivery fee" (really grasping at money, these guys). Which makes it $25 or $35 per score per institution. Respectively one or two week processing from reception of mailed request.

Cancellation:
Same June 15 deadline as above for students who chose free reporting. Free of charge. Permanent deletion of scores, you can't ever bring them back. Two week processing from the moment they get your mailed request.

DS did not pick free reporting, so it sounds like we're canceling!

PP - I made this call a few years ago because it is confusing. You don't need to cancel - you just don't "pay" to send that test result to colleges.

As you said, as long as you did not choose to send scores for free when taking the test, the June 15th deadline doesn't apply to you.

Our DC took exams in Soph and Junior year and did not choose the "free send" option. We were told we can pick and choose which scores to send and where to send them. It just means we need to pay to send the scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My kid also just received a very disappointing 2 on his AP Calc.

My question is, can he send some scores but not others to colleges? Apart from this one, all his other scores are 5s.

The College Board website says we're too late for withholding or canceling this score - the deadline was June 15th, but he didn't have his score then.

Is your child entering college in Fall 2022? If so, you are too late... the scores are sent. If not, you are not too late. It's whenever the kid is going off to school.

PP you replied to. Thanks! DS is fall '23, and wants to send AP scores to his preferred schools for the Early Action deadline of Nov 1st.

Just want to update everyone. I called the College Board.

Withholding:
The June 15th deadline is for students who elected to send scores for free. It's $10 per score per institution. For others, there's an added $15 standard or $25 rush "delivery fee" (really grasping at money, these guys). Which makes it $25 or $35 per score per institution. Respectively one or two week processing from reception of mailed request.

Cancellation:
Same June 15 deadline as above for students who chose free reporting. Free of charge. Permanent deletion of scores, you can't ever bring them back. Two week processing from the moment they get your mailed request.

DS did not pick free reporting, so it sounds like we're canceling!

PP - I made this call a few years ago because it is confusing. You don't need to cancel - you just don't "pay" to send that test result to colleges.

As you said, as long as you did not choose to send scores for free when taking the test, the June 15th deadline doesn't apply to you.

Our DC took exams in Soph and Junior year and did not choose the "free send" option. We were told we can pick and choose which scores to send and where to send them. It just means we need to pay to send the scores.

This. After junior year, DS had a 5 on the AP Calculus and a 1 on the AP Language & Comp (that was the covid year where the "test" was a single essay question. I can only guess that he completely missed whatever point they wanted him to make!). He included the Calc score, didn't mention the English score, even though the class was on the transcript (with an A). Got in all but one school.

DD is a senior and will only report her good AP test scores (she's the reverse -- does well in English, crappy in math)

We didn't cancel any scores, they are still in their College Board accounts.

[Anonymous]

Wait. The College Board says on its website:
"Your score report includes all your scores from all the AP Exams you took in the past. Your entire score history will be sent to your designated college, university, or scholarship program unless you choose to withhold or cancel any of your scores."

Are they fudging? Is the full report only sent out for the people who request free score reporting?

[Anonymous]

Unless AP scores are required for a major colleges really don't care. Sure they will give you a general credit for a 3-5 (depending on school) but they look at the GPA and transcript- neither of which are affected by the AP score.

PP with the BASIS kid. That does sound stressful and really a poor reflection on the school. Elite high schools are moving away from APs because colleges are too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unless AP scores are required for a major colleges really don't care. Sure they will give you a general credit for a 3-5 (depending on school) but they look at the GPA and transcript- neither of which are affected by the AP score.

PP with the BASIS kid. That does sound stressful and really a poor reflection on the school. Elite high schools are moving away from APs because colleges are too.

I know a few posters like to repeat this, especially when talking about UVA, but it's not necessarily true elsewhere, PP. DS is not applying to UVA. He's applying to schools that told him plainly scores mattered, either for admission, or for merit aid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait. The College Board says on its website:
"Your score report includes all your scores from all the AP Exams you took in the past. Your entire score history will be sent to your designated college, university, or scholarship program unless you choose to withhold or cancel any of your scores."

Are they fudging? Is the full report only sent out for the people who request free score reporting?

I haven't gotten to a point where AP scores get sent yet but the statement from the website can be true without fudging.

For example - here's an interpretation

- free report requires you to cancel a score (and by a certain deadline) to keep it from being sent
- for those that do not choose the free report, you choose which scores to send and withhold the ones you do not want to send

I am not the OP but the other PP who called College Board about this. DS never chose to automatically send scores for free - College Board said we can therefore choose which scores to sent but that we will pay a fee to send scores.

[Anonymous]

You self report AP scores for almost* all schools (not Georgetown and maybe a handful of others). Report just the ones you want schools to see. You self report on common app. Once admitted and decide to enroll then send score reports. Schools will not care about the ones you didn’t report at that point. You aren’t lying by not reporting some of your scores if all scores are not required. My daughter has mostly 4’s and she is not reporting any AP scores on her apps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unless AP scores are required for a major colleges really don't care. Sure they will give you a general credit for a 3-5 (depending on school) but they look at the GPA and transcript- neither of which are affected by the AP score.

PP with the BASIS kid. That does sound stressful and really a poor reflection on the school. Elite high schools are moving away from APs because colleges are too.

I know a few posters like to repeat this, especially when talking about UVA, but it's not necessarily true elsewhere, PP. DS is not applying to UVA. He's applying to schools that told him plainly scores mattered, either for admission, or for merit aid.

OP here - DC wanted UVA as a reach especially for the major but this one class/grade really ruined it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You self report AP scores for almost* all schools (not Georgetown and maybe a handful of others). Report just the ones you want schools to see. You self report on common app. Once admitted and decide to enroll then send score reports. Schools will not care about the ones you didn’t report at that point. You aren’t lying by not reporting some of your scores if all scores are not required. My daughter has mostly 4’s and she is not reporting any AP scores on her apps.

I'm assuming she's gunning for a T20 and thinks 4s will make her look bad?

[Anonymous]

Ah. DS wants Georgetown. How does Georgetown get ALL the scores?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You self report AP scores for almost* all schools (not Georgetown and maybe a handful of others). Report just the ones you want schools to see. You self report on common app. Once admitted and decide to enroll then send score reports. Schools will not care about the ones you didn’t report at that point. You aren’t lying by not reporting some of your scores if all scores are not required. My daughter has mostly 4’s and she is not reporting any AP scores on her apps.

That would be a mistake, unless she's applying to the Ivy League and similarly selective institutions.