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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you save the PDF of the common app application, you can see the scores listed in there when you self-report.

How can an admissions officer not look at that?

DC reported 5 test scores -two 5s and three 4s.
He didn't list AP Scholar with Distinction on awards

...and even if they didn't care, DC worked really hard to get those scores, [b]which will provide college credit. [/b]
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Only state schools or low tier colleges will give you “college credit” for AP scores. And guarantee the college course in that subject your kid “worked so hard” for a test score in is much better actually taught at a college by a professor.[/quote]

Already checked with the T50 school that he already committed to.  :D 
Getting credit for 4 out of the 5 AP exams taken so far.  That's 12 hours of course credit :mrgreen:

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What school?  Public or private?[/quote]

Public. In some of the courses, they only give credit if you get a 5. Some courses will take a 4, but no lower than that. 
Kid is aiming to get all 5s on the 6 AP exams he's taking in the Spring.  Already mapped it out with his intended major- in some of the courses, he only needs a 4. He had already talked to the admissions office as well as current students on how they used their AP credits.

Good to have credits, but we also know that some will count for elective credit only, and you don't really know how helpful/not helpful those are until later- also depending on the major.  He took the AP courses because he wanted the rigor. Getting credit was secondary, but when he saw how much it could possibly save on tuition (by graduating early) and the potential of having a more flexible college schedule (by not having to take 15 credits every semester), he will take the opportunity to take the exams.

There was another public, lower ranked school that we looked at that will take as low as 3s for credit. [/quote]

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