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Five years ago, AP exams were almost never mentioned for admissions purposes.

Now, 90% of the top 20 colleges have explicit public statements that they use, recommend, or require AP exam scores in the admissions process.

Schools are rife with grade inflation. Colleges know this. There is little to distinguish between an “honors” class and another—enter AP classes which hold to a higher rigorous standard and a national set of objectives, unlike “honors.”

https://summitprep.com/blog/top-colleges-want-ap-exam-scores/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAS1YCdwZG9mA2ZkaWQWUJ6T3lGjwZDt2T5I69Tk2-xND92aimV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR79tVBCwXIgdzUM6CeipH-glZY0I5zKjNGC_TFo-x6Fxj6nT5J_KBPxUmB_9Q_aem_74gn1qWS88k5U8M1YfrMcw

Top Colleges Want AP Exam Scores - Summit Prep | SAT, ACT, and Academic Tutoring in NJ AP exam scores used to be just for college credit. Now, 90% of the top 20 colleges use AP scores in admissions. Here is each college's AP score policy.

AP scores have been released to colleges today.

For students who have selected to send their results the scores will be visible in their admitted college's portal.

National release should be July 6th.

Upcoming ACT workshop at SGIS for the July exam.

Hmmmmm. Big changes afoot..

As my fellow tutor colleague David Blobaum analyzes in this blog: Tulane's changes (renewed emphasis on the SAT/ACT, explicitly mentioning that the school values AP exam scores, and dropping its "why Tulane" essay) might be harbingers of things to come at other universities.

Add to that the UCSD report on unprepared students, the letter from UC professors to the UC Regents urging the UC schools to go back to test-required admissions (at least for STEM majors), and other changes (such as Harvard capping A-grades, etc), and it feels like we might be at a turning point. I am optimistic that we might be.

Thoughts?

https://summitprep.com/blog/changes-to-college-admissions/?fbclid=IwZnRzaASJ2FRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEezZG09r18u8cTFYQj1xMEWjnUynZI0E_D7cdjFBCs1Y2vDEd1V8KPaEp6DkI_aem_zLLJnluOjTCzr69oJi_ZGA

Changes to College Admissions - Summit Prep | SAT, ACT, and Academic Tutoring in NJ Test-optional is fading. Essays are out. AP scores are in. Here's what's driving the biggest shift in college admissions since Covid.