Score Reports and Services for Colleges
New Online Score Reports Portal
AP Higher Ed Score Reports, a new online portal for viewing and downloading AP score reports sent to colleges, universities, and scholarship institutions, is now available to institutions currently receiving paper score reports.
The new portal is user-friendly and doesn't require technical expertise to set up and access.
What You’ll Need To Do
Invitations with access instructions are currently being sent out on a rolling basis. We’ll send invitations to institutions receiving paper score reports first.
Add collegeboard@e.collegeboard.org to your email contacts to ensure you receive important updates.
If your institution is currently receiving paper reports:
- If you have not been contacted by College Board by March 24, 2025, please reach out to us at APHigherEdScoreReports@collegeboard.org. We must confirm your institution’s contact information—access instructions will be sent to the contacts on file on a rolling basis.
- Create a College Board professional account if you don’t already have one. With an account set up, you’ll be able to start viewing your students’ AP score reports when your access instructions arrive.
If your institution is currently receiving internet delivery via encrypted files in addition to paper:
- Your encrypted internet score files won’t be impacted by the discontinuation of paper score reports in April. You’ll continue to receive your electronic files with no disruption.
- Support for the encrypted file service will end in spring 2026 at which time the new online portal will be the only method to receive AP score reports. You will continue to receive email notifications from the older ScoreLink system for encrypted files through December 5, 2025.
- If you currently have an automated process, please note that a web API facilitating automated download of files is not supported in the new portal yet. Information about this feature will be provided prior to the end of service for the encrypted file in spring 2026.
- If you currently have a manual process, it’s strongly recommended to move to the new portal now for timelier delivery of AP score reports and no required decryption of datafiles.
- If you wish to transition to the new portal, please note that you will continue to receive notifications from both systems through December 2025, but you should not use files from both systems concurrently. Once you are using files from the new portal as your primary data source, using encrypted files from the old ScoreLink system may cause your data to become outdated or records to be missed.
- If you are having difficulty with your decryption key and are relying on paper score reports as your primary source of score data, you must transition by April. If you have not been contacted by College Board by March 24, 2025, please reach out to us at APHigherEdScoreReports@collegeboard.org . We must confirm your institution’s contact information so you don't miss critical updates. Access instructions will be sent to the contacts on file on a rolling basis.
If your institution is currently only receiving internet delivery via encrypted files:
- There will be no impact to your encrypted internet score files with the discontinuation of paper score reports in April. You’ll continue to receive your electronic files with no disruption.
- Your institution will be invited to move to the new portal starting in summer of 2025.
- If you currently have an automated process, please note that a web API facilitating automated download of files is not supported in the new portal yet. Information about this feature will be provided prior to the end of service for the encrypted file in spring 2026.
Scores for Students Who Last Took Exams Prior to 2018
Please note that a small number of AP score reports will still be sent via paper delivery and will not be available on the new online portal as they are archived—that is, if the student last tested in 2017 or earlier.
Download Our Guide
Review this guide (.pdf) with your registrar, admissions, and IT/operations staff or your student information system vendor to learn more about the new AP Higher Ed Score Reports portal.
Internet Delivery via Encrypted Files
Previously, colleges and universities could choose to participate in internet delivery of electronic score reports in addition to or in lieu of paper delivery.
This option is only available to institutions already enrolled in it. Support for the encrypted file service will end in spring 2026 at which time the new online portal will be the only method to receive AP score reports. Institutions that currently receive only internet delivery of encrypted files will be invited to move to the new portal in summer of 2025.
How It Works
- Electronic score reports are delivered via encrypted files using an anonymous server.
- After scores are processed, the electronic score report is placed on the server, triggering an email informing schools that data are available for download. The email will come from scores_int@ets.org.
- The email contains an internet address that can then be accessed to collect, save, and process the data.
- Score reporting for the 2025 exam administration will start in July.
Format and Software Requirements
- Scores are available in a non-delimited flat-file format (ASCII).
- Specific software is required—either PGP Desktop Professional 2.6.2 and higher, or GnuPG 2.0 and higher.
- Software needs to be a supported version that can create the 2048-bit RSA key required to receive AP score data electronically.
Review the record layout specification and test file resources below with your IT/operations staff or student information system vendor to ensure you’re able to receive and interpret the electronic files.
Contact Us
For questions about internet delivery of scores via encrypted files, contact AP Code Control at 866-609-2447 (option 3) or email cbcodeservices@collegeboard.org.
