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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our freshman got an A in the class and 4 on the exam. As PP said, sometimes experience and maturity are a factor. If they start to get 5s on future exams do we just report the 5s? Do colleges care the year that they did the class? If they score lower on the harder ones we'll of course report nothing as someone suggested. [/quote]

Only report 5s on your college application, but you can submit 4s for credit once you enroll.  4s are seen as essentially Bs, Do you want to submit Bs into your testing profile? [/quote]

LOL no. Just no. As others had said earlier, if you are required to take the AP and don't report, assumption is it was a 3 or lower.  If three people are applying to a top school and two of them submit 4s for their APs and you submit none, do you really think this gives any advantage to you?[/quote]

Sara on AN says don’t submit 4s that they weaken your application. She was an admissions officer at Penn and read a thousands of applications. Is she wrong and you are right? How many files have you read? [/quote]

DP. I have flat out heard current admissions people at mit say you should submit all scores, and if they see you took an AP and did not submit an exam they can’t help but assume it was not a good score and these gaps should be explained in the additional info. So, it probably depends on the particular school and also the time period. When was Sara an admissions officer? Was grade inflation as rampant back then and were there as many applicants to top schools then as there are now? [/quote]

I just checked her Linkedin and she left her last AO job in 2010. Hardly recent information and I would never go on just one person's opinion.[/quote]

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