Information for applicants with US qualifications who have received a conditional offer. Information for applicants who have received a conditional offer for Advanced Placement (AP) test scoresYou must achieve the required scores in official College Board tests to meet the conditions of an AP offer. We are unable to accept AP class grades to meet AP test offer conditionsIf you have a conditional offer for further AP test scores, these must be achieved in addition to the ones listed on your application. This may be because the achieved test scores on your application are below our entry requirements, further specific subjects are required, or higher grades are required. If you have not provided enough information in your UCAS application about your current studies, you may have been made a standard conditional AP test offer based on your school type or location. If you have not listed any AP test scores on your application - but have achieved test scores in previous years - you may be able to use some of these to meet the conditions of an AP offer. You should provide us with these scores as soon as possible, so that we can advise what outstanding conditions you need to meet. If you are not taking any AP tests but you are at a school in the US, and are taking an alternative advanced or college-level curriculum, it may be possible to meet the conditions of your offer in an alternative way. Please see ‘Meeting your offer with Advanced/College level classes’ for further information. If you are not taking any AP tests but you are at school outside of the US and are taking a local curriculum, we will not be able to consider alternative school study for undergraduate entry. Contrasting subjects Conditional offers need to be met with contrasting AP test subjects. This is because we require you to demonstrate your academic ability across a breadth of study. We deem some AP subjects within the same field of study to be too similar, meaning they do not meet this contrasting subject requirement. The following AP subjects are only counted once in your academic profile: AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC and AP Precalculus AP Computer Science A and AP Computer Science Principles AP Physics 1: Algebra based, AP Physics 2: Algebra based, AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism and AP Physics: Mechanics The following subjects are considered as distinct subjects and can be individually counted in your academic profile: AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics AP European History, AP United States History and AP World History AP Language and Culture and AP Literature and Culture Excluded subjects The following subjects are not accepted: AP Research AP Cybersecurity or AP Networking The following subjects are not accepted for most of our degree programmes, and are only accepted for Art and Design degrees (excluding MA Fine Art and History of Art) and Architecture: AP Studio Art/AP Art and Design (2-D, 3-D, Drawing) Sending your test scores To meet your conditional offer using test scores, you must make your results available to us directly from the College Board or ACT. We cannot accept score reports that you have emailed to us, or uploaded yourself. If you are still to sit further tests, please ensure that you have listed the University as an institution that should receive your results. This will expediate the release of your new scores. We will not upgrade your offer to unconditional until we receive the official verified scores. College Board AP Please follow the instructions on the AP Scores webpage. Our institution number is 0917. AP Scores webpage College Board SAT Please follow the instructions on the Sending SAT Scores webpage. Our institution number is 0917. Sending SAT Scores webpage ACT Please follow the instructions on the ACT Test Score webpage. Our institution number is 5390. ACT Test Scores webpage Information for applicants at schools in the US: meeting your offer with advanced or college-level classesYou may be able to meet a conditional AP offer in an alternative way, if you attend a school in the US that teaches a rigorous advanced or college-level curriculum, or you are attending a dual enrolment programme at a local US college or university. Please refer to the ‘Minimum entry requirement – USA schools’ section of the following page for further information about the academic profiles that would be considered. Undergraduate entry requirements for students from the United States of America.If your offer is at a higher level and includes AP test scores at 5, any alternative offer will be above the minimum published entry requirements. We will therefore require the specified number of classes at grade A, or equivalent. All conditional offers based on an advanced or college-level academic profile require the full completion of Grade 12, and a final CGPA on graduation. Your offer will remain conditional until final graduation, even when suitable advanced or college-level classes have been completed already. If you have not provided full information on your UCAS application about your advanced or college-level curriculum, then you may have received our standard offer based on AP tests scores. To establish whether you can meet your conditional offer using an alternative academic profile, you must provide full information about your school’s curriculum, your study to date, and any study still to be completed. Please email us at futurestudents@ed.ac.uk with your full name, UCAS ID number, and the degree programme(s) you have applied to and provide the following documents: · a copy of your US high school transcript to date including your junior and senior year classes, and any mid-term/semester report cards · a copy of your school’s profile and published curriculum information, including courses descriptors for any required subjects If you have any queries regarding your offer then please contact us.Undergraduate admissions contact form This article was published on Wednesday 11 November 2026
