<p>One of my children had a transcript that I suspect some schools didn’t know how to process, and perhaps weren’t willing to try. When a school has many more applicants than openings, you can’t make them work too hard. In fact, I phoned an admissions office to ask how they might read an absence of certain classes, and they confirmed that it could go against the student (despite a very challenging and interesting set of classes). So I suggest you do think about it carefully - but if your student takes relatively standard and rigorous classes, I wouldn’t think that would be a big issue.</p>
<p>Now, even though some colleges became inaccessible, possibly because of the academic experiences my child had, neither one of us would choose a different path, in retrospect. It was life-changing, worth it, <em>and</em> there were some really great college options.</p>