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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You'll get plenty of people on here who claim AP scores are not considered during admissions.

Sorry, but an admissions officer who knows grades are inflated and can't easily be compared between one school system and another will be interested to find that "top" student A earned 5 out of 5 on their AP exams, and "top" student B earned 3.

Same principle for SAT, ACT and IB scores. They all cut across the gpa noise and provide a national basis of comparison. At similar gpa, it really shows you which school inflates grades and which school doesn't.
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Kind of. I see what you're saying and agree to an extent, but there are also students who are knowledgeable but don't test as well. But, it is another point of data to weigh with/against grades.[/quote]

PP you replied to. I say this with love and experience:  the "doesn't test well" concept is simply not an excuse. It just means the student needs to address test-taking anxiety and practice test-taking strategies. I have a senior with special needs and a neurotypical middle schooler. One of them takes too long on tests and misconstrues the questions, and the other rushes through and misreads the questions. The result is the same. I have taught each of them how to re-read the questions and identify what the question is looking for, how to manage anxiety, how to pull key concepts from reading comp texts or check units and key factors from graphs or tables. My teen needs to check his watch and assign blocks of time to each section if he has any hope of finishing on time. My middle schooler has to take as much time as possible and go over everything 3 times otherwise she just sits there for an hour waiting for the others to finish.

There is knowledge and test prep. A student needs to master both. "Doesn't test well" means the student mastered the former but not the latter.
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