News You Might Have Missed: 6/20/25

A collection of news and updates relating to admissions and testing over the last week.

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AP Scores are Out (As a Group on Social Media)

Advanced Placement Exam scores are out! Kind of. Specifically, the score distributions are available for certain tests from the May 2025 Exams. Even more specifically, they are available on the social media accounts of Trevor Packer. Packer is the Head of the Advanced Placement Program for the College Board.

This is how the College Board (and Packer) have been initially revealing the scores. The AP Exams’ five-point range of scores means that the full tests need to be fully graded and evaluated before scores can be handed out. These results come out only after each exam has been graded. Since each exam has a free-response portion, that is not instantaneous. Then everything has to be evaluated.

This isn’t much for students waiting on their own personal AP scores, but it is something. The distributions don’t change that much year to year. There are still small shifts which are fun to track if you’re into tha…