AP scores out

[Goobergunch]

The College Board has released the 2005 AP grades via phone. It's an $8 call to 1-888-308-0013. You need (your AP number OR your social security number) AND your birthdate AND a valid credit card number AND the credit card's expiration date.

[santosh]

wow. That is a lot of ands. Is there any other way to get our scores than by phone? I'm was just a sophmore when I took mine this year so no one really explained much to me.

[Ben Lauer]

yeah, you'll get them in the mail in a bit, or you can try getting them online.

[sanddrag]

$8 for a phone call? And you don't even get to meet any hot singles? LOL, j/k

but seriously, does anyone else think the College Board is evil like I do?

[Daniel Brim]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

$8 for a phone call? And you don't even get to meet any hot singles? LOL, j/k

but seriously, does anyone else think the College Board is evil like I do?

Oh yes, definately.

[Ryan M.]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

$8 for a phone call? And you don't even get to meet any hot singles? LOL, j/k

but seriously, does anyone else think the College Board is evil like I do?

Yep... but the ACT company does that too... I couldn't resist paying the $8 for my ACT results.

[macurtis]

I'll wait before I pay. *wonders if her AP teacher read at least one of her essays and knowing he's an AP reader*

[rowe]

Originally Posted by kayla13

Has the price risen at all did you use to have to pay? Is it inflation if so how much will I have to pay when I do an AP??? thats a little bit of a rip off.....

The $8 is only for the phone call, if you have patience and don't need to see your scores right away, then you can wait until the end of July and they'll send them in paper form.

[Ryan F.]

I have to say that the eight dollar fee thoroughly disgusts me. They already know the scores, and they're probably on a computer somewhere. So why not just release them to all the people who already paid 70 some dollars?

[Lisa Rodriguez]

Originally Posted by Ryan Forystek

I have to say that the eight dollar fee thoroughly disgusts me. They already know the scores, and they're probably on a computer somewhere. So why not just release them to all the people who already paid 70 some dollars?

I agree, it's disgusting. Why not e-mail or make them available one collegeboard.com like they do SAT scores.
and 70 some dollars? Try $82 per test......cuz my school doesn't like to give financial aid to those who deserve it and keep the school test scores up.

[Ryan F.]

Originally Posted by Keiko173

and 70 some dollars? Try $82 per test

Whoops...couldn't exactly remember the price....our school does not help out on the price either.

[jpsaul7usa]

Hehe, I remember those days of waiting for AP scores. Now that I have a collegiate perspective of it, it really isn't that expensive. If you did well you just got a class or two out of the way that in college would have cost you a ton more. In Arizona, by my estimate, it's roughly $440 per 3-credit class. I came into Northern Arizona with 20 AP credits (6 from AP US, 6 from AP Euro, 8 for AP Chem), and spent ~$200 for them. That's about $2,730 saved, and $8 really doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm pretty sure that most people here are going on to more expensive undergraduate schools than NAU, so you're saving even more.

But yes, the College Board is evil. Once your scores are transferred you'll never have to deal with them again. For a non-profit they sure do have a lot of overhead. Capitalist pigs.

[sanddrag]

For CPP it is like $970 per quarter for 6-16 units I believe. This quarter I have only 8 units so it is a little more per class than other quarters when I take 16. Kind of messed up but that's just the way it is. To top it off, the class I really wanted to take this summer which I have trying to get since last winter I finally got into it by grabbing the last available seat and then the class was cancelled. But I'm going to check out the Rose Float club and hopefully get involved in that where I'll learn how to weld.

[Goobergunch]

Originally Posted by macurtis

*wonders if her AP teacher read at least one of her essays and knowing he's an AP reader*

My AP Calculus/Statistics teacher, who's also an AP reader, told us that if they get a paper belonging to one of their students, they have to give it to another teacher to avoid any bias.

[macurtis]

Originally Posted by Goobergunch

My AP Calculus/Statistics teacher, who's also an AP reader, told us that if they get a paper belonging to one of their students, they have to give it to another teacher to avoid any bias.

Mr. Ferry told us that the AP readers don't even have a way of knowing which student wrote the essay because all of the documents are barcoded. *shrugs* I'm just speaking from what he told me. He told us that it's possible he'd read one of ours, but he'd have no way of knowing because all the essays are barcoded.