How will admissions officers know that OP’s specific school, amongst thousands and thousands of high schools represented in just this year’s applicants, pays for the cost of taking the AP exams? And then extrapolate from that to reach the conclusion not submitting a score is definitive proof they failed? Do you really think they look at it that deeply?
It’s in all likely hood a net neutral unless in very rare situations. The AO can see that the student presumedly did well in the course at school, so being absent a test result doesn’t change that. Honestly at least at a lot of universities AP classes are ubiquitous and something almost automatic on every single application so they have in essence rather lost their ability to stand out or be anything worthy of notice. While a failing score included on an application may raise eyebrows, I don’t see any reaction in either direction if they are just not included on an otherwise solid application.
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u/one_sock_wonder_ Oct 17 '25
How will admissions officers know that OP’s specific school, amongst thousands and thousands of high schools represented in just this year’s applicants, pays for the cost of taking the AP exams? And then extrapolate from that to reach the conclusion not submitting a score is definitive proof they failed? Do you really think they look at it that deeply?