Advanced Regents: Worth my time?

hammer326
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:54:02 +0000

Hello, As my first post on these boards I come to you all with a dilemma I am caught in and a request for help.

I am a senior, not yet graduated but accepted at every school I’ve yet applied to, one of which I currently fully intend on enrolling in. I also thought back in the summer that going for the Advanced regents diploma would be a fun challenge.

It’s not. The one class standing between me and this diploma, Trig/Algebra 2, is excruciatingly hard for me(I’ve struggled in math since middle school) and is destroying my leisure time(a primary concern of mine, but I am far from here to debate that).

I ask this: If I am already accepted and in every legal way guaranteed to go where I want to, have very solid SAT scores and a good enough GPA BUT little to no extracurricular activities, will this advanced diploma make or break me in any situation from here on in in life? I’ve talked to my Counselor and many friends and pretty much unanimously say to drop the class because in my situation it’d just be a minor plus on job applications after high school. Is it more significant? and given the long and short of my situation, is it worth my time? I’m really lost in the woods here, any help is greatly appreciated.