<p>I wasn’t criticizing you, marite, only trying to point out that</p>
<p>1) Graduation requirements may differ enough between districts that the OP’s daughter might find it necessary to spend much of her senior year taking non-academic courses (such as “career education” or “speech” or “technical education”) or courses ordinarily taken by younger students (such as a very basic government course) to fulfill graduation requirements, rather than the AP or special interest courses she could have taken as a senior in her old school system. If the OP’s daughter has to do this, it is not only personally disappointing. It may also mean that the guidance counselor cannot check off the “most rigorous” box on her college paperwork since she would be taking a lot of Mickey Mouse courses her senior year, instead of the AP or other advanced courses her classmates would be taking.</p>
<p>2) It is possible, if the OP’s daughter has not completed a requirement that takes more than one year to complete, that she might need to complete an extra year of high school in order to graduate from the new school. </p>
<p>I think it is essential for the OP and his daughter to investigate the graduation requirements of the potential new school and meet with someone there to determine exactly what his daughter would have to do to satisfy the requirements. It may be possible to waive or pro-rate some things (I doubt, for example, that the New Jersey school with the four-years-of-PE requirement would require a senior coming from the Maryland school that requires only one year of PE to take three PE courses simultaneously as a senior). But other requirements may be nonnegotiable.</p>