AP Scores

[Arhowk]

Its that time of the year again Share your AP scores below.

AP Calculus - 5
AP Chemistry - 4 (Not bad for a first year teacher)
AP US History - 4
AP Language - 3
AP Seminar - 2

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Arhowk

Its that time of the year again Share your AP scores below.

AP Calculus - 5
AP Chemistry - 4 (Not bad for a first year teacher)
AP US History - 4
AP Language - 3
AP Seminar - 2

these shouldn't be accessible by a student until July 15th. How did you get them early?

[z_beeblebrox]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

these shouldn't be accessible by a student until July 15th. How did you get them early?

http://www.apscore.org/schedule.html

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by z_beeblebrox

http://www.apscore.org/schedule.html

interesting, on the teacher side it states students will get theirs on the 15th. Odd.

Edit: another odd thing. Depending on where you live, your teacher will get your scores before the student does. Another thing that College Board does that makes no sense.

[Foster]

Originally Posted by Arhowk

AP Calculus - 5
AP Chemistry - 4 (Not bad for a first year teacher)
AP US History - 4
AP Language - 3
AP Seminar - 2

Congrats on the scores, not many students go for 5 AP tests at one go!

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

interesting, on the teacher side it states students will get theirs on the 15th. Odd.

Edit: another odd thing. Depending on where you live, your teacher will get your scores before the student does. Another thing that College Board does that makes no sense.

It's called server meltdown. There are more students than teachers waiting to get the grades. So they stagger the releases across the states. The teacher load is much smaller so they can roll them out earlier. It keeps the College Board from buying more servers for test result times.

(Yea yea, AWS, Cloud services, mega clusters out of Raspberry PI, blah blah blah.... there is no way they are going to move anything out of their data centers. They are very, very paranoid about their data. )

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Foster

Congrats on the scores, not many students go for 5 AP tests at one go!
It's called server meltdown. There are more students than teachers waiting to get the grades. So they stagger the releases across the states. The teacher load is much smaller so they can roll them out earlier. It keeps the College Board from buying more servers for test result times.

But why not roll them out the same for each area? Teacher for region X, then students of region X. Teachers for Region Y, then Students of Region Y. They are all over the place right now. Seems random.

[cgmv123]

Originally Posted by Foster

They are very, very paranoid about their data.

They are very, very paranoid about a lot of things.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

They are very, very paranoid about a lot of things.

But they don't proofread very well. I had a slew of kids freaking out because they thought their scores would be voided for a mistake they didn't even cause.

[Foster]

Originally Posted by cgmv123

They are very, very paranoid about a lot of things.

They have a pretty impressive non disclosure form for job interviews.

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

But they don't proofread very well. I had a slew of kids freaking out because they thought their scores would be voided for a mistake they didn't even cause.

Well see, their Master Card/Visa system does automatic proofreading, so they have covered the most important part of their business model.

I don't have an exact insight into how/when scores are released to teachers. If I was doing it, I'd send them 1-2 days before the students got them, but not any more than that since I want to make sure the students come here. I can't easily find a link for teachers so I can't do a full eval of release dates, etc.

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by Foster

I don't have an exact insight into how/when scores are released to teachers. If I was doing it, I'd send them 1-2 days before the students got them, but not any more than that since I want to make sure the students come here. I can't easily find a link for teachers so I can't do a full eval of release dates, etc.

They send the scores to colleges before anyone... one year I was able to get my scores through Georgia Tech sometime in late June, but this was back in 2011/2012. Things probably have changed since then.

[Arhowk]

Scores were released for ALL teachers on Monday (per my understanding) and will gradually be released to the students throughout the course of this week to ease the load of the collegeboard servers. Colleges typically receive scores in early June for placement and scheduling purposes. Some colleges are notorious for giving students their test scores early so they can get the scores and spam the students with random crap

Originally Posted by Foster

Congrats on the scores, not many students go for 5 AP tests at one go! l

I had to for seminar which is quite ironic. (Needed 2 passing AP scores plus passing Seminar and Research, that's a total of 6 passing scores before my senior year and now I'm ineligible to take research)

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by Arhowk

Scores were released for ALL teachers on Monday (per my understanding)

not true.
here are the release schedules
Teachers:
https://professionals.collegeboard.c...ccess-schedule

Students:
https://apscore.collegeboard.org/scores

[Foster]

Thanks for posting that. But I'm done. I got overly invested in something that I don't really care about when I swung by to say congrats to Arhowk for doing so well on so many of the tests. (I think the term is "I got Delphied" )

I'm sure someone with more time and access to a Wolfram account will take the list and run it against common data bases to find the correct intersection of why they release them the way they do (Hey look, it's based on the IQ's of each states Lt. Governor!)

Arhowk, sorry to hear that you can't take Research your senior year. I'd like to suggest you see if there is a Networking class / sets of seminars in your area. No, not computer networking, but people networking. The ability to find and network with the right people in college will make those years go much better. Honing those skills at college will then serve you better across the next 40 years than any class you'll take.

Good luck!

[thatprogrammer]

AP US History: 5

Only took 1 this year, taking 3 next year.

[Poseidon5817]

AP Chemistry: 4
AP World History: 4