Yale BDD--what if you can't go?

classicalmama
Fri, 08 Apr 2016 01:24:09 +0000

As a CC professor who teaches dual enrollment classes, YIKES on some of this advice!

Dual enrollment classes are not the same as AP classes. The exams are the exams for the classes, not something added on at the end. To tell him to skip them is to tell him to get a lower grade in the class. Further, if @SantiagoAlverez has that many exams at that time, it may well be final exam time–and at my school, to miss final exams, students have to petition the provost. It takes something like the death of a parent or a mandatory military exercise to get out of them (or to take them early).

In any case, as y’all know, unlike high school, where students are in a particular class 180 days or more, college classes meet 2-3 days a week for 15 weeks (and a 4 or 5 credit semester class is often the equivalent of a year’s high school credit). So you’re essentially suggesting that he miss a week or even two week’s worth of a comparable high school class for a fun but completely optional activity.

As you might guess, my Yale admit–also a dual enrolled student, didn’t even consider BDD because he’d miss too much class. My Yale sophomore also didn’t consider going back when he was a senior because he knew there was no way on God’s green earth that his boarding school would excuse those absences.

Santiago, you don’t need to go. Not going will in NO way affect you in the fall.