Colleges take into consideration students who have participated in rigorous academic programs. Honors courses, AP courses, community college, or advanced courses such as a 4th year of math or 3rd year of Language Other Than English (LOTE) on a transcript to indicate that the student is likely to succeed in college. Admissions officers will use the school profile to determine how many advanced courses a high school offers and to what extent a student took advantage of those classes. AP Exams are administered in May and are scored on a scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high), with a score of 3 considered passing. Please note that not all colleges provide course credit with an AP score of 3 or higher.
Benefits to students
Students may possibly earn credit (AP Central), advance placement, or both, in college.
Admissions officials know that an academically impressive high school transcript is a good indicator of college success.
AP courses prepare students for the rigor of college.
Classes add an additional point to GPA (ex. an “A” in a regular class equals 4 points but an A in an AP class earns 5 points towards their GPA).
* Students do not have to take an AP course to take an AP exam.