<p>you should get rejected just because you don’t have a clue. anyone who goes to any open houses would know that the colleges don’t want your grades to drop senior year because they know hs seniors tend to take the year off. if the grades drop significantly, the school has a right to rescind your acceptance. so a couple of ap’s with a pottery class or intermediate hand warming class would be ok provided a student doesn’t drop too much. instead, you load up on ap’s (you must really want to save a couple of bucks on college credits) in your last year when the grades will not really help you, but could do serious damage. this isn’t the smartest approach to this process. as far as class rank, i believe that most colleges will look at class rank after the junior year. so you should be good there</p>