Ap score release

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So this is my child's first AP exam (AP Gov). They are a rising sophomore and received a 4. Are they doomed according to DCUM standards?

Of course not. Less than half of AP Gov takers got 4 or 5, and very few first years took any AP courses.

Sophomores at my sons' high school take AP Euro History as sophomores. APUSH is the junior year course. AP Euro was much more work than APUSH according to my kids. They both got 5s in both.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My Junior (rising Senior) has already sent AP scores this summer to a few schools that said send them early.

He is 5 for 5 (all 5s) and we are helping this is another boost in the age of everything 'test optional' and such a low pass rate in APs across the board this year.

I have never seen this. What schools (1) want an official AP score report prior to admission and (2) suggest students send them prior to admission season?

The only school I'm aware of that will only consider AP scores via official report is Georgetown, which doesn't have a place in its app to self-report AP scores. There may be others, and I'd like to know what those are.

(As an aside, seems odd to send AP scores to colleges before the student knows what the scores even are, though maybe I'm misunderstanding. One would wait until at least today - to see the scores - before ordering an AP score report. Unless, perhaps, the student wanted to report AP scores from freshman and sophomore year, but was concerned about how they might perform on their junior year AP exams?)

Can you include them in your application? My kid got 5s on all his AP tests, and I think he’d like to share them during the application process. But maybe they aren’t considered?

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My son self-reported them on the common ap. He's only being asked for official scores now that he is enrolling in college.

[Anonymous]

When do you start sending them to colleges? My kid just did her first in 9th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When do you start sending them to colleges? My kid just did her first in 9th grade.

You can choose to include them in college applications fall of senior year. You do not report them to colleges before then. They are reported in the Common Application.

You send an official score report after senior year APs to the college where you have enrolled.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When do you start sending them to colleges? My kid just did her first in 9th grade.

You can choose to include them in college applications fall of senior year. You do not report them to colleges before then. They are reported in the Common Application.

You send an official score report after senior year APs to the college where you have enrolled.

There are a few universities that allow you to officially send them before Senior year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When do you start sending them to colleges? My kid just did her first in 9th grade.

You can choose to include them in college applications fall of senior year. You do not report them to colleges before then. They are reported in the Common Application.

You send an official score report after senior year APs to the college where you have enrolled.

Thank you! The email said something like "you get one free send a year", so I didn't know if we were missing something. Now that I see how the report works (lists them all), it seems obvious in hindsight

[Anonymous]

Woo hoo. My child never has to take another English class again. No clue what her score was but she said she scored well enough to not have to take English at all in college

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When do you start sending them to colleges? My kid just did her first in 9th grade.

You can choose to include them in college applications fall of senior year. You do not report them to colleges before then. They are reported in the Common Application.

You send an official score report after senior year APs to the college where you have enrolled.

There are a few universities that allow you to officially send them before Senior year.

Most will allow, but there is no benefit to sending so early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So this is my child's first AP exam (AP Gov). They are a rising sophomore and received a 4. Are they doomed according to DCUM standards?

Of course not. Less than half of AP Gov takers got 4 or 5, and very few first years took any AP courses.

Sophomores at my sons' high school take AP Euro History as sophomores. APUSH is the junior year course. AP Euro was much more work than APUSH according to my kids. They both got 5s in both.

I don't know if it's more work in terms of testing, but in terms of actual historical events, of course, European History is going to be vastly bigger in content than US History.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So this is my child's first AP exam (AP Gov). They are a rising sophomore and received a 4. Are they doomed according to DCUM standards?

4 is good and great for a first AP score.

+ 1. My rising junior took her first AP (World History) and came home from the exam telling me she tanked the DBQ because it was a subject she was less familiar with. She was expecting a 2. She got a 4 and I am thrilled.

[Anonymous]

Have your kids seen their AP lang scores yet? My kid got his other scores this morning but this one is still missing....

[Anonymous]

Son (rising junior) got a 4 in Computer Science Principles and a 3 in Euro. Honestly, I'm thrilled and relieved.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My Junior (rising Senior) has already sent AP scores this summer to a few schools that said send them early.

He is 5 for 5 (all 5s) and we are helping this is another boost in the age of everything 'test optional' and such a low pass rate in APs across the board this year.

Btw, a bunch of a-holes on this board said my son was going to bomb APUSH after I commented that he found it easy (on a thread specifically asking what your kid thought of this year's APUSH AP exam).

I wasn't one of those asshats, but I was worried when you said your kid found it easy, as my kid did not. He got a 5 though, so we're pleased.

My kid found one of the DBQs easy but made the point that it was easy because of the type of education and upbringing they had. Basically the exam covered topics that they had learned about before APUSH so when they encountered those topics again on the exam, it felt easier because they really knew and understood the area of history they were asked to write about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have your kids seen their AP lang scores yet? My kid got his other scores this morning but this one is still missing....

English language? Yes, mine had hers this morning. Last year I remember there were some scores missing for a month or more, so it does happen that there are gaps where a test score gets held back. I don’t know why.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why the obsession with knowing AP scores RIGHT NOW? Y’all need therapy.

The scores can make a difference for high-achieving kids gunning for top schools.

Not so much for other kids, whose parents of course wouldn't be as invested. Can also make a difference financially if kids earning a lot of 4s/5s end up getting a semester's worth of college credit.

For us the financial piece is huge.

Same here. I almost cried when my son said he got a 4 on his AP English test. I am proud of him (I’m an English teacher) but first and foremost, he won’t have to take English 101. As a single parent paying for college, this will help.

My kid was able to place out of intro required English courses because of his high scores. While they still have to satisfy school’s English/writing requirements, they get to choose what class to take and are able to skip intro classes which are less interesting to them. It also made scheduling easier.