What is the highest AP award?

AP Scholar Award Levels

Do AP awards mean anything?

AP Scholar Awards are national awards that can be used as recognition for hard work and academic performance on college applications and resumes. You can get an AP Scholar Award with high performance on your AP Tests throughout your high school career.

What does an AP Scholar Award get you?

While there’s no monetary reward involved, you will receive a certificate commemorating the honor. Even better, the AP Scholar designation will appear on the AP score reports you send to colleges and universities. Plus, you can mention the award on college applications and resumes.

Is AP Scholar an award or honor?

AP Scholar Awards Every fall, the AP Program recognizes high school students who have demonstrated outstanding college-level achievement through their performance on multiple AP Exams.

What percentage of students get AP Scholar with Distinction?

10%
Nationwide, only about 10% of students earn the distinction of AP Scholar or higher by the time they graduate.

Is AP Scholar with Distinction prestigious?

A student attending school outside the U.S. must earn a 3 or higher on at least five AP Exams in designated content areas. Clearly the AP Scholar with Distinction award is the most competitive of the options for U.S. students, and it is the one that will carry the most weight during the college admissions process.

Do colleges care about AP awards?

“The Dean” will answer the last part of your question first because it’s the easiest: Colleges don’t care AT ALL about AP awards. These awards, which you can read about here, simply indicate that a student has earned a certain exam score on a certain number of tests.

How common is AP Scholar with honors?

The National AP Scholar award is typically the highest honor granted to a student before graduation and is granted to less than 1% of students nationwide. Eleven BASIS Independent Brooklyn students received this honor.

What percentage of people are AP Scholars?

The National AP Scholar award is typically the highest honor granted to a student before graduation and is granted to less than 1% of students nationwide.

How do you get an AP Scholar Award?

To earn the AP Scholar with Honor Award, students must score an average score of at least 3.25 on all AP Exams taken, and grades of three or higher on four or more of these exams. By completing three or more AP Exams with grades of three or higher, students qualify for the AP Scholar Award.

Do AP Scholar Awards still exist?

Scores of four or better on five or more AP exams and an average of four on all AP exams taken. Must be a student in Bermuda. Previously, State AP Scholar Awards were distributed to the top male and female student of each state. However, the State AP Scholar awards were discontinued as of the May 2020 administration.

Do AP scores affect high school GPA?

AP scores won’t affect your high school GPA or your chances of college admission. (The fact that you took AP courses when they were available is a different story!) But good AP scores can earn you college credit.

Why are they getting rid of AP Scholar?

After the 2019-2020 school year AP will no longer award students AP Scholar Awards, due to increased pressure on students to take more and more tests.

Do Ivy Leagues look at AP scores?

Competitive schools like Ivy League institutions expect students to take mostly AP classes by their senior year (unless they’re enrolled in an International Baccalaureate program). High AP test scores are seen as evidence that an applicant works hard and is capable of studying material at a higher level.

Is AP harder than honors?

Passing an AP exam with a score of 3 or above can lead to college credit in various majors at different schools. AP classes also tend to be more challenging than honors classes. For AP classes, you should have the ability to manage difficult coursework while preparing for AP exams.