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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. Not at all.[/quote]

This blanket statement is false. We know that Emory wants AP scores if you don’t submit SAT scores. See 2023 Selingo interview.  Sara Harberson talks about [b]a candidate being rejected for having a 4 instead of a 5 on an exam[/b]. We know in Selingo’s book a 4 on AP Calc actually helped an applicant over the hump. [/quote]

This is absurdly stupid. Kids spend 4 years putting together their accomplishments, grades, ECs, essays, etc. And A SINGLE AP EXAM GRADE rules them out?

Fu---ing absurd. [/quote]

Well presumably it was the straw that broke the camel's back. At a certain stage in the process, the school has more qualified students than they can admit. If a pool of students is otherwise equivalent, but some have straight 5s and some don't, that's one way to make a selection. What's your suggestion of who they deny at that point?[/quote]

GMAB. I know how it works as I've read the same things everyone else on here has read. But, rarely is it that black and white. 
Even if it is as far as grades, the ECs and others are harder to quantify as being a plus or minus.

I don't make any suggestion but it's lazy of the college, and silly of them, to say one grade on one AP exam is the differentiator. [/quote]

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