I was at a high school for several years (Speech Path) and even I knew what the graduation requirements were for the high school and what the State colleges (UC’s/CSU’s) required for admission.
Your counselor is currently compiling your mid year reports now, and will be compiling your final paperwork during Spring Break, for the registrar, to send to your colleges. The counselors don’t get much sleep and use their weekends to complete their paperwork.
- My concern is that come Spring, you will have a boatload of stress because of all of the those tests that you will be taking. Will you be taking those tests? (Our son’s Spring sports schedule was impacted by the AP’s.)
PLUS, Springtime is always a depressing time for seniors.
- You’ll start receiving admissions results.
- Prom, may or may not affect your mood.
- You’ll be prepping for graduation practice.
- You have to confirm sending your transcripts to the colleges.
- You’ll be cutting your hours at your part-time job.
Your new counselor will have lines of parents with their children about why their children weren’t accepted to XYZ school.
Are you absolutely sure you want to fill that space? You have a heavy work load in addition to Senior “activities”. I know that our counselors advised students to make junior year their “heavy” academic year and to space out their senior year.