AP Exam Scores Are Important For College Admissions — Updated 2025
AP and IB exam scores continue to rise in importance for college admissions.
AP and IB exam scores continue to rise in importance for college admissions.
At least 122 colleges have already returned to requiring test scores or said they will return to doing so in the 2025-2026 admissions cycle. A few of the most notable to do so: MIT, Caltech (which jumped all the way from test-blind directly to test-required), Harvard (which ended its moratorium
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Caltech is the first college to require that students submit AP or IB exam scores if they have taken any of these exams.
Not only are more colleges moving to test-required or test-preferred admissions, but college applicants are responding and increasingly sending SAT and ACT scores.
Not only are more colleges moving to test-required or test-preferred admissions, but college applicants are responding and increasingly sending SAT and ACT scores.
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