AP究竟在美国大学申请中起到什么样的作用?
作者:岳锟
“究竟AP在美国大学申请中起到什么样的作用?”
“AP考试科目该怎么样选?”
“AP考多少门才算够?”
“AP单科成绩到多少分才有用?”
一年一度AP考试报名时间临近,咨询AP问题的家长和学生越来越多。本文将针对AP常见问题进行综合解答。
常见问题一 : AP考试科目是不是越多越好?AP成绩在考试中扮演了什么样的角色?
结论可能会让大家大吃一惊!其实在申请过程中,很多院校并没有提到会考虑AP成绩,而更多的是表明在开学前的Summer收到AP成绩可用来换学分。以下就US News 2019综合排名前30院校,我们汇总大学申请中接受AP成绩的情况:
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常见问题二 : 关于接受AP成绩的学校,如何解读AP对其申请的影响?
以哥伦比亚大学为例,AP成绩可以送分,但是我们不审理;斯坦福大学则稍微解释了一下,若是你送的AP成绩,是你高中课程里没有的,则可以作为补充材料。
(上图,截图ColumbiaUniversity 官网)
(上图,截图StanfordUniversity 官网)
每年11月份,美国大学招生协会(NACAC)都会针对当年美国大学录取政策及数据在全美各大学中进行调查和统计,汇总分析当年本科升学方面的总体情况。这就是所谓的《年度大学招生录取报告》(The State of College Admission Report)。报告也显示,有40.9%的大学明确表示AP在他们大学的申请过程中没有作用(No Importance)!
常见问题三 : 为什么越来越多的美国大学对AP考试成绩,一点都不感冒?
这个主要是因为,AP考试越来越商业化,尤其是2015年开始推出,饱受争议的AP考生“随时随地”都可以取消AP成绩的政策:“Scores may be canceled at any time.”。这个政策可谓是触发了许多大学的逆鳞,他们觉得即便你非常优秀,也会对你的反复刷分而存在AP分数相当的反感。
The AP Program allows you to cancel your AP Exam scores. When you request cancellation, your exam won't be scored, and if it has already been scored, the score will bepermanently deleted from our records. Once a score is canceled, it can't bereinstated. There's no fee for this service, but your exam fee is not refunded. Archived scores cannot be canceled.
Scorescan be canceled at any time, but for scores not to be sent to the collegeindicated on your AP answer sheet, AP Services must receive your request by June 15 of the year you took the AP Exam.
这个取消AP成绩政策,有三点需要注意:
1. 取消成绩没有任何费用,考试报名费用也不会退回。
2. 取消成绩意味着College Board不会留有纪录,学校也不会看到。
3. 若是选择AP免费送分(建议在考卷上不选),则会产生6月15日这个期限,需要在6月15日之前提交取消申请,否则系统会自动送分。
取消成绩方式,下载填写表格(链接如下),传真给CB即可:
https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/pdf/ap-score-cancellation.pdf
常见问题四 : 既然如此,为什么AP还是这么受人追捧呢?
这里要区分两个概念,就是AP考试和AP课程。AP考试是在College Board报名并参加考试的一项测试,AP课程是在学校普通课程体系之上探索更高的可能性,类似于IB。
AP考试成绩对大U申请帮助不大,但是学校的AP课程,由于涉及GPA,而且还能算加权,体现学生所修课程的难度和含金量,这个对于大学申请意义是很大的。
(上图为密歇根大学鼓励学生在校探索AP/IB课程的描述)
常见问题五 : 这是一个很现实的问题,哪些AP科目比较好拿4/5分呢?
这个问题需要根据自己的学习情况进行选择。虽然理科普遍容易高分一些,但一个纯文科学生想要在物化生拿5分难度恐怕不低于选自己擅长的文科。下面节选了College Board 2019年度统计部分结果:
常见问题六 :大学录取后,究竟AP能换多少学分和哪些课程?
这个问题首先我们需要查一下梦校的要求是否能换大学Credits,是否能满足General Education。即便是一所大学内,实际院系之间也会有所差异。以下收集的是US News 2019综合排名前30院校中接受换学分的情况汇总,大家可以点击查阅:
Ranking | Name/Rank | 接受 | 链接 |
#1 | Princeton University | Yes
| https://www.princeton.edu/pub/ap/table/ |
#2 | Harvard University | 必须是Advanced Standing | https://oue.fas.harvard.edu/apexams |
#3 | University of Chicago | Yes | http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/thecollege/examinationcreditandtransfercredit/ |
#3 | Yale University | Yes | http://catalog.yale.edu/first-year-student-handbook/academic-information/acceleration/table-of-acceleration-credit/ |
#3 | Columbia University | Yes | https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/getting-credit-placement/search-policies/college/3853 工院和CC有差距 |
#3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Yes | https://uaap.mit.edu/first-year-mit/first-year-academics/incomingcredit/previous-study/ap-and-transfer-credit-advanced-placement |
#7 | Stanford University | Yes | https://registrar.stanford.edu/students/transfer-credit-and-advanced-placement/advanced-placement/ap-credit-chart |
#8 | University of Pennsylvania | Yes | https://admissions.upenn.edu/admissions-and-financial-aid/preparing-for-admission/freshman-admission/external-exam-credit |
#8 | Duke University | Yes | https://admissions.duke.edu/application/overview#credit-and-placement |
#10 | Johns Hopkins University | Yes | https://advising.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/89/2019/04/Advanced-Placement.pdf |
#10 | Northwestern University | Yes | https://www.registrar.northwestern.edu/registration-graduation/transfer-and-test-credit/advanced-placement-and-international-baccalaureate-credits.html |
#12 | California Institute of Technology | No | http://www.admissions.caltech.edu/apply/first-yearfreshman-applicants/academic-preparation-requirements |
#12 | Dartmouth College | Yes | https://www.dartmouth.edu/~reg/enrollment/credit_on_entrance_exemption_charts.html |
#14 | Vanderbilt University | Yes | https://www.vanderbilt.edu/catalogs/documents/UGAD.pdf#page=32 |
#14 | Brown University | No | https://www.brown.edu/academics/college/degree/policies/advanced-placement |
#16 | Cornell University | Yes | https://admissions.cornell.edu/sites/admissions.cornell.edu/files/2017-18%20UAO%20AP%20IB%20Sheet_0v2_1.pdf |
#16 | Rice University | Yes | https://registrar.rice.edu/sites/g/files/bxs751/f/2019%20-%202020%20AP%20EXAM%20LISTING.pdf |
#18 | University of Notre Dame | Yes | https://firstyear.nd.edu/academics/advanced-placement-credit/ap-exam-credit/ |
#19 | University of California-- Los Angeles | Yes | http://www.admission.ucla.edu/Prospect/APCredit.htm |
#19 | Washington University in St. Louis | Yes | https://artsci.wustl.edu/resources/ap-credit (A&S) https://engineering.wustl.edu/current-students/student-services/Pages/advanced-placement.aspx (Engineer) |
#21 | Emory University | Yes | http://college.emory.edu/oue/documents/resource-a-to-z-files/ap-ib-equivalencies.pdf |
#22 | Georgetown University | Yes | https://bulletin.georgetown.edu/Advanced%20Credit |
#22 | University of California --Berkeley | Yes | https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/counselors/exam-credit/ap-credits/ |
#22 | University of Southern California | Yes | https://arr.usc.edu/services/articulation/adv_placement_exam_credit.html |
#25 | Carnegie Mellon University | Yes | https://www.cmu.edu/hub/registrar/docs/ap-credit.pdf |
#25 | University of Virginia | Yes | http://records.ureg.virginia.edu/content.php?catoid=45&navoid=3262#Advanced_Placement_Program |
#27 | Wake Forest University | Yes | https://prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu/sites/120/2019/06/Advanced-Placement-Policy-2019-2020.pdf |
#27 | University of Michigan-- Ann Arbor | Yes | https://admissions.umich.edu/apply/freshmen-applicants/ap-ib-credit |
#27 | Tufts University | Yes | https://admissions.tufts.edu/academics/pre-matriculation-credits/ |
#30 | New York University | Yes | http://cas.nyu.edu/academic-programs/bulletin/policies/admission.html#4 |
#30 | University of California--Santa Barbara | Yes | https://my.sa.ucsb.edu/catalog/Current/UndergraduateEducation/APCreditandChart.aspx |
#30 | University of North Carolina --Chapel Hill | Yes | https://admissions.unc.edu/credit/credit/test-and-placement-credit/ |
(注意:上述AP换算政策的内容,学校每年都会根据招生和教学情况进行调整,仅供参考!)
附 : 2020年AP考试报名及缴费时间
根据国际教育测量交流与合作中心(IECC)的最新通知,2020年5月AP考试报名及缴费时间安排如下:
AP学校考生报名时间:
10月9日 9:00-10月23日 16:00
缴费截止至10月24日 16:00
社会考试生报名时间:
10月25日 9:00—11月1日 16:00
缴费截止至11月2日16:00
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