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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To clarify, are they looking at AP course grades or AP exam scores?[/quote]

Course work and course grades primarily each AP course is a 1 point GPA lift. B becomes A etc. with a cap on how many of those you can use

[b]What I don’t know is whether they see the AP test scores too[/b]. Someone else might know.

He also mentions IB as being important for them as someone on todays UCLA thread said too[/quote]

They do. All the colleges see all the scores via College Board[/quote]
To reiterate, colleges only see scores that are submitted to the college by the student, either in the application or by ordering an official score report. Colleges cannot "see" into the College Board database.

The question still stands, do UCs consider AP scores? Is there a place in the app to report them and/or do UC admission offices accept official AP score reports sent by students prior to admission?[/quote]

It was unclear from the interview if he was talking about AP exams or course work generally [/quote]

My guess - the AP courses count more because they impact GPA and that really matters at UC (weighted GPA is a big factor these days)

They also look at AP tests as it says here - but mostly for course credit purposes

https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requirements/ap-exam-credits/ap-credits/

The former really hurts the 7 DMV private schools who mostly eliminated AP courses bc UCs don’t take the UL or honors designation as carrying any weight for weighted calc. So a 3.8 from GDS is being compared to a 4.6 from some other school. The 4.6 will win 8 out of 10 times is my guess [/quote]

Real schools re-calculate GPAs and they look at unweighted GPA primarily.   They look at rigor of schools as well.[/quote]

So UCLA and Berkeley aren't real schools but what...Bates and Bowdoin are? Come on man.
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