My kid also just received a very disappointing 2 on his AP Calc.

My question is, can he send some scores but not others to colleges? Apart from this one, all his other scores are 5s.

The College Board website says we're too late for withholding or canceling this score - the deadline was June 15th, but he didn't have his score then.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes I scored a 4 as a junior and didn’t think I was particularly good at math

Wow, a math whiz yet you don't understand how common it is for students to get below a 4. Stats is hard. Consider community college to beef up some of those skills.

People who are good at things will oftimes compare themselves to people who are great at things and lose perspective. I wouldn't expect more than 5% of kids to be able to do this. Probably fewer.

I assume OP’s kid is not at BASIS but they do actually boost or lower grades based on AP scores. It’s incredibly stressful.

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Anonymous wrote:AP scores don't affect GPA. No one sees them unless you submit them to a college. Sadly OP your DC already had a terrible grade for the class. Not a STEM kid.

Or, for whatever reason, the class just didn’t take. If OP’s child decides they want to pursue STEM, they’ll need to retake Calculus (and it might be a good idea to retake the prerequisites, if they aren’t solid, to help them grasp Calculus better). However, I don’t think they should be discouraged as not a STEM kid. They may not be a STEM kid, which would be okay, but that should be determined by their interest and not by a bad AP test.

This is only one score. One test. This doesn’t mean cancel all future math classes or a stem career! Some people on DCUM are just mean and ignorant.

There is nothing mean or ignorant about saying a kid may not be a STEM kid. This poor kid did terribly in the class (as reflected by the GPA being tanked) and terribly on the AP test. You know what is mean? Thinking all kids have to be into STEM or they will somehow end up poor and unemployable with their non STEM degree which their parents should never pay for. That is classic DCUM ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:AP scores don't affect GPA. No one sees them unless you submit them to a college. Sadly OP your DC already had a terrible grade for the class. Not a STEM kid.

Or, for whatever reason, the class just didn’t take. If OP’s child decides they want to pursue STEM, they’ll need to retake Calculus (and it might be a good idea to retake the prerequisites, if they aren’t solid, to help them grasp Calculus better). However, I don’t think they should be discouraged as not a STEM kid. They may not be a STEM kid, which would be okay, but that should be determined by their interest and not by a bad AP test.

This is only one score. One test. This doesn’t mean cancel all future math classes or a stem career! Some people on DCUM are just mean and ignorant.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you mean "not send the AP score to colleges"?

You can choose which ones to send, don't send a 2.

No you can’t choose. All scores get sent. But you don’t need to send until you are accepted and only if you want AP credit.

You can choose to delete or withhold specific scores and only send the ones you want.

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean "not send the AP score to colleges"?

You can choose which ones to send, don't send a 2.

No you can’t choose. All scores get sent. But you don’t need to send until you are accepted and only if you want AP credit.

Do you mean "not send the AP score to colleges"?

You can choose which ones to send, don't send a 2.

Anonymous wrote:I mean if you have AP Calc on your school transcript and no AP score, the school will likely guess it's a failing score.

Most schools don't put AP test scores on transcripts. You can definitely take the AP class and not take the test or get a bad score. Frankly most colleges don't care unless you are going into a specific major that requires an AP score. Which is some STEM majors. That vast majority of college could care less what you got on your AP test unless you are looking for college credit (less money to the college hence why they don't care). But the AP score didn't tank this child's GPA. The kid did poorly in the AP class which is tanking the GPA. Has nothing to do with the AP test except that this child didn't grasp calculus in the class.

I mean if you have AP Calc on your school transcript and no AP score, the school will likely guess it's a failing score.

Is it the AP Score that is on the transcript, that you would like removed?

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Anonymous wrote:my bad. grade is B-. try to remove from transcript still?

How do you remove an earned grade from a transcript?l

Even discussing doing such a thing sends a message to your child that anything less than perfection is failure and failure must be hidden.

+1 It also sends the message that the grading system is there to be manipulated and not to reflect actual performance.

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You people need help

Anonymous wrote:Yikes I scored a 4 as a junior and didn’t think I was particularly good at math

Wow, a math whiz yet you don't understand how common it is for students to get below a 4. Stats is hard. Consider community college to beef up some of those skills.

Anonymous wrote:Yikes I scored a 4 as a junior and didn’t think I was particularly good at math

Mom good at math and got a D in calculus in college.

Anonymous wrote:AP scores don't affect GPA. No one sees them unless you submit them to a college. Sadly OP your DC already had a terrible grade for the class. Not a STEM kid.

Or, for whatever reason, the class just didn’t take. If OP’s child decides they want to pursue STEM, they’ll need to retake Calculus (and it might be a good idea to retake the prerequisites, if they aren’t solid, to help them grasp Calculus better). However, I don’t think they should be discouraged as not a STEM kid. They may not be a STEM kid, which would be okay, but that should be determined by their interest and not by a bad AP test.