Dropping an AP class senior year

[thumper1]

Here are my two pieces of free advice:

1. Drop the class if you don’t need it to graduate from high school, or to fulfill course requirements for college applicants.
2. I surely hope you are also looking for a few colleges that are not top 10 colleges. Even with a perfect SAT and a 4.0 GPA, you are not guaranteed acceptance to these colleges with single digit admission rates. And if you don’t get accepted, you will never know why (one W on your transcript won’t be the reason most likely).

I’m going to link a thread. The student in the thread was a NMF, class val, excellent LOR, excellent ECs. No one expected him to get rejected everywhere as a HS senior. But fact was…he really had no sure things for admission on his application list. He did land on his feet very well after a well thought out gap year, but his senior year in high school was not a happy time. You don’t want to be him…read the whole thread.

No Acceptances: One Kid's Story - A year later...

Part I of III Sorry this is long but some posters have pm’d me about our story and I thought it would be of help to re-tell it. One year ago I posted a question here on CC – “We’re Picking up the Pieces …but what went wrong?” My son had applied to eight schools, been rejected at five and waitlisted at three. I expected to get a few responses and see the thread disappear deep into the archives of CC. Little did I imagine that one year later, not only would I still be posting about the progress, but an entire cyber family on College Confidential would still be going through it with me. For the benefit of those of you starting out on college applications, or – hopefully not-- for those of you who may find yourselves in our position, this is the story of one kid’s worst case scenario and how he made the best of it. I’m re-telling it here by way of my own original posts and those of other CC posters whose advice was so vital to the journey. Thanks to all of you! My original post o…