Did your child drop a class senior year of high school?

[Anonymous]

How did it affect their college applications? How did you address it with the schools they applied to?

[Anonymous]

Well, no one else seems to be applying. The answer is to ask your high school’s college counselor re your individual student. If your student is aiming high, you don’t want to do this first term of senior year because those institutions want to see highest rigor.

[Anonymous]

You have to email every school you applied to about the change in schedule ASAP. When your final transcript is sent in June they will compare it to your reported courses. This sort of discrepancy can result in the school revoking your acceptance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did it affect their college applications? How did you address it with the schools they applied to?

Mid-year report will show this change. It's best to ask school counselor to send a letter to every school, explaining this change is due to shift in interest, or courseload being too heavy, or any other appropriate reason. If your school counselor refuses to do so, then the student should take this up. No drama, just a simple note.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did it affect their college applications? How did you address it with the schools they applied to?

Mid-year report will show this change. It's best to ask school counselor to send a letter to every school, explaining this change is due to shift in interest, or courseload being too heavy, or any other appropriate reason. If your school counselor refuses to do so, then the student should take this up. No drama, just a simple note.

Be transparent, don't be silent. Is this course related to intended major? Is it even a core curriculum? I wouldnt' worry too much about it if it's Advanced Arts etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to email every school you applied to about the change in schedule ASAP. When your final transcript is sent in June they will compare it to your reported courses. This sort of discrepancy can result in the school revoking your acceptance.

+1

I don’t know the frequency of revocations, but dropping a class without informing the school does create uncertainty best avoided.

My DS applied to schools predominately in the 30 to 50 range. He dropped an elective class in the 2nd semester and informed every admissions office that accepted communications prior to making a decision about his applications.

None expressed concern and I don’t think it influenced the decisions as he got a good number of acceptances from these schools. He had 2 Top 20 schools that rejected him and I don’t think it mattered with them, either.

So the transparency is essential.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the class, surely?

My DD had a half year of PE to do in 12th (this past school year), she did it and then became a TA for the PE coach second semester. No one cared.

If its AP Calc then its going to be an entirely different matter and required curriculum will be missing.