Freshman year dilemma

chanoo2003
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:47:18 +0000

Well its kind of late to post this thread right now but I had a dilemma at the beginning of the school year. I moved to the town I live in a little after spring break last school year (2016-17) when I was in eight grade, and it didn’t take me long to get adjusted to the new school. However, quite unexpectedly my parents decided we were going to a foreign country for vacation over summer break and the only return flight was the first week after school started I couldn’t do anything about it of course, but at the time I didn’t think much of it. Who cares if I miss the first week of school? Later I realized that this was a deadly mistake for my freshman GPA. So the problem is, I didn’t know that freshmen at my high school were able to take algebra 2, and I was in algebra 1 in 8th grade so I thought the normal progression was algebra 1 to geometry then to algebra 2. I was soon proved to be wrong, because apparently lots of kids double-blocked math so they were doing geometry and algebra 2 at the same time. Before I came to know this, however, I had a problem with my schedule on the second week of freshman year. My counselor had accidentally put me in a engineering class and I wanted to resolve that, so my second day of school (really it was the 2nd week of school starting) I went to my counselor and submitted a schedule change request form. I could’ve changed to Algbera 2 then but I didn’t know it was offered, and now I feel at a disadvantage because everybody in my classes is going to be in pre-calculus next year while I will be in Algebra 2.

Will this hurt my chances of getting into good colleges or put me at a less competitive spot because I could’ve been in AP Calculus BC by 11th grade? Please respond or add your comment. Thanks for reading.