How to Send AP Scores to Colleges? Step-By-Step Tutorial

There are several ways you can send your AP score report to colleges, which can make the process confusing. Find out how to send AP scores to colleges via fax, mail, or online.

If you’ve taken AP exams, you may be curious about how to send AP scores to colleges. How can you make certain that colleges receive your AP scores? Do you have access to official AP score reports?

Here, we provide you with a comprehensive guide that discusses how to send AP scores, which colleges require these scores as part of your application, and how you can send scores for less money.

How to Send AP Scores to Colleges?

You must ask the college board to send an official report of your AP scores to the college in order to submit your AP scores. Every year you take AP exams, you are entitled to one free score report.

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After the deadline for the free score sends, you can always send additional score reports or an assessment report online for a fee. If you’re senior sending scores to your college to get credit or placement, you need to check the deadline for scores. You need to make sure to send your free score by June 20.

Use Your Free Score

You can send your results to one free recipient each year you take the AP exams. If you want a college, university, or scholarship organization to receive your score report, log in to My AP, navigate to My AP Profile, click the Score Send tab, and then choose that institution. Make sure to use your 2023 free scores and send them before the June 20th deadline.

Using your free score send is the best way to make sure that your scores arrive in time for your college to give you credit and placement if you’re starting college in the fall.

Using your free score send can make you stand out to the colleges you send your scores to if you’re a high school junior, sophomore, or freshman because it amplifies your early interest in the institution.

Instructions

1. Log into “My AP”
   • Access My AP by logging in with your College Board account.
2. Choose “My AP Profile”
   • Decide on the My AP Profile link.
3. Choose the Score Send tab
   • From the tab, choose Score Send.
4. Find the college or university where you want your grades to be sent
   • Type the name of your college or university to start. Select it from the list when it does and click the Save button.

Send AP Scores Online

You are entitled to one free score report each year you take the AP exams. When the free score send deadline has passed, you can always send additional score reports or score reports after that for a fee online. If you’re a senior who needs to send scores to get credit or placement, make sure you know when your college needs them.

Instructions

1. Choose between standard and expedited delivery
   • Analyze whether you need expedited delivery to get your results to your college in time for the deadline. While rush delivery takes just 5 to 9 business days, standard delivery takes between 7 and 14 business days.
2. Keep a credit card on hand
   • Rush delivery costs an additional $25 per report, and standard delivery costs $15 per report.
3. Register with the system
   • To access our online score reporting system, sign in with your College Board account.
4. Please send your results
   • Clicking Send AP Scores will prompt you to follow the instructions.

Send AP Scores by Fax Or Mail

You will be given one free score report for each year that you take the AP Exams. If you need to send more score reports or a score report after the free score and can’t do it online, you can mail or fax your request to us.

Standard delivery (approximately 7-14 business days) costs $15 per report, while rush delivery (approximately 5-9 business days) costs $25 per report. If you’re senior sending scores to your college for credit or placement, make sure you know when they must receive AP scores.

Instructions

1. Choose between standard and expedited delivery
   • To get your results to your college before the deadline, decide if you need rush delivery. Standard delivery typically takes between 7 and 14 business days, while rush delivery typically takes between 5 and 9 business days.
2. Have a method of payment on hand
   • You have the option of paying with a credit card, check, or money order. Rush delivery costs an additional $25 per report, and standard delivery costs $15 per report.
3. Make a written request & include the following details in your written request:
   • Your full name, mailing address, phone number, gender, birth date, and AP number(s) or AP ID
   • Name and location of your school
   • Full name of the exam(s) you want additional score reports for (ex., “English Literature and Composition,” not “English”) and year(s) taken (s)
   • A credit card number and expiration date (required for fax orders), or the exact amount due in check or money order (make checks and money orders payable to AP Exams)
   • Name, city, state, and four-digit college code(s) of the college(s) for which you want the report
   • Your signature or that of your parent/guardian
   • Send the payment along with the request.
   • Your payment method determines the address to which you send your message.
   • Send the payment along with the request.
   • The address you send something depends on whether you pay with a credit card, check, or money order.
   • Send your payment to College Board, P.O. if you wish to pay by check or money order (payable to AP Exams). Postal code 10087-1535 is Box 21535 in New York.
   • Send it to AP Services P.O. if you wish to pay with a credit card. Box 6671 Princeton, New Jersey 08541-6671 or by fax at 610-290-8979.

Send Archived AP Scores

For archived scores older than four years, students must submit a request in order to view and/or send them. A $25 fee and a completed Archived AP Score Request Form are required by the College Board.

The archived score report may be requested personally by the student, or the address of the school to which the report should be sent may be included. The student will still get a copy of the confirmation report at their mailing address even if the report is sent to a school.

Within 15 business days of receiving the request, the College Board sends the report.

When Should I Send AP Scores to Colleges?

If you choose a college or university in My AP by the deadline of June 20 you should receive your scores in early July. If you pay a fee to order extra score reports, the delivery dates vary depending on whether you select standard or rush delivery and when you place your order:

1. Standard: The time it takes to get your results to the person you’ve chosen to receive them from will depend on when you submit your request and where that person is located. The range of days is 7 to 14. Each report is available for $15.
2. Rush: The chosen recipient of your scores will receive them in 5–9 days. Based on when your request is made and where you live, the precise number of days varies. Per report, there is a $25 fee.

Do You Need Official AP Score Reports for Your Applications?

First off, do colleges want the official AP score report when you’re applying, or is it just for the purpose of verifying scores once you’ve enrolled? Prior to sending your scores for a fee, you should be aware of this.

Turns out, Your high school transcript frequently shows your AP scores. To find out if your school records AP scores on transcripts, speak with your guidance counselor. Furthermore, there is a place on the Common Application where you can self-report your AP scores.

Given this information, and by looking at college websites and contacting admissions offices, we’ve learned that most colleges want applicants to self-report AP scores on their applications, and only send in an official report once they’ve committed to attending.

This means you’ll only submit one official AP score report in your life, once you’ve chosen the college you want to go to.

SAT/ACT scores must be sent directly from the testing organization (the College Board or ACT, Inc.) for admission; don’t confuse sending AP scores with sending SAT/ACT scores., respectively).

Do I Need to Send An AP Score Twice?

In most cases, no. Sending a score report for high/relevant AP scores once upon initial admission into a college program is sufficient unless you retake the exam within the past year and there is a new score to report.

As soon as a student enrolls in a college-level course in that subject, the influence of their AP scores on their overall performance starts to decline. AP score reports include results from exams taken within the previous four years, excluding any results that a student has asked to have withheld or canceled.

Exams from more than four years ago are archived and can be accessed by students upon request and payment of a fee.

Conclusion: Send Your AP Scores

You must ask the college board to send official AP scores to report to the college in order to send AP scores. Every year that you take the AP exams, you will be given one free score report. Here are methods to send you rAP scores:

• Each year, the College Board provides one college with a free AP score report.
• Students can also mail, fax, or email their AP scores to colleges.
• Score report requests are accessible through the My AP tool from the College Board.
• Unfavorable AP scores can be withheld or removed from the report at the student’s discretion.

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