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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS used a proxy ( :roll: ) to see his AP scores early and was slightly disappointed.  Here's his breakdown- 
English Language and Psychology - 5
Human Geo - 4
Biology, US Gov, European History - 3

He took psych sophomore year, geo freshman year, and bio, gov, euro, and English this year, junior year.

What is the proper course of action for these scores?  Do these hurt his chances of admissions?  Not looking for top 10 schools, but has his sights on schools in the range of UW-Madison and BU (his top 2 right now).  [/quote]

In my opinion -- based on the college application process we just completed (for admission to Class of 2018) -- colleges give little, if any, weight to AP test scores for [b]admissions[/b]* but instead use these scores for placement/exemption from course prerequisites and/or awarding college credit [b]once the student has been admitted -- and more importantly, has enrolled at the college.[/b]  By the way, at the time my daughter applied (fall 2013), she'd taken four AP tests and had received two 4s (English Lang. & NSL) and two 3s (Bio & Calculus AB) and was accepted at 3 of the 5 Ivies she applied to (Yale, Columbia & Brown; waitlisted/rejected Harvard & Penn) and accepted to the remaining five private colleges she had applied to including UChicago and Swarthmore.  So I don't think (at least in my daughter's case) that the AP test scores helped or hurt her your college application particularly since she didn't receive her first 5 until this year/her senior year, which was well after the college admission process was completed.  So, in my opinion, there's nothing to do "now" regarding the 3's other than to take comfort in the fact that your son "passed" all of his AP tests and, depending on where he actually ends up, he may even get college credit (though probably not for the 3s) and/or skip the basic course in the particular subject area (even for the 3s -- for example, even though my daughter won't get any college credit, it appears that she won't have to take a first-year Calculus course since she got a 3 on the AP exam but will be able to start in second-year or higher Calculus course at her college).

*I think, for admissions, colleges give the greatest weight to SAT/ACT scores and GPAs, and then use ECs to distinguish between students who have similar academic profiles.        [/quote]

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