Does he have to stick with this to the end?

starbright
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:02:12 +0000

I’m going to venture a guess that no one walking on earth at this present moment has been saying to themselves “oh damn, my life would have been so different/better/improved if only I hadn’t dropped band (or fill in the blank with some common student activity) in the fourth year!”

In the big scheme of things, with everything taken together, it is not going to make an ounce of difference. That is true for just so many things when it comes to college admissions-- however we want to minutely control and predict a process that is largely out of our control and predictability.

I strongly doubt the school he dreams of realistically getting into is going to put him in the ‘reject’ or ‘accept’ list because of this particular decision. And even if such a school would reject him on this basis, does that really sound like the wonderful school you want your kid going to?