<p>A friend's kid, accepted ED to a top-ten university, is now overwhelmed by a heavy courseload, including five APs, and is considering dropping a course. Student took Calc AB junior year, got a five on the exam. Now in both Calc BC and AP Stats, and thinking about dropping one of those. Is the college likely to care? Less likely to care if Stats is the one dropped?</p>
<p>Why don’t they reach out to the school and ask them? No one on here is likely to know a real answer - each of the “top-ten” is likely to answer this question differently.</p>
<p>Yes, just call. My daughter called her school and asked about dropping the second semester of her French class. They said she’d have to make it us in college, but that her acceptance wouldn’t be withdrawn (even though it is a requirement for admission).</p>
<p>Certainly if you’re dropping one, get rid of Stats. I’m also in both BC Calc and Stats this year and I think Calc is much more valuable, and something you don’t want to necessarily have a semester off in if you’ll need to take calc in college. Stats on the other hand would be easily picked back up without much of an issue.</p>
<p>Thanks! The student is planning on calling, but before doing so was wondering what others’ experiences had been to have an idea what to expect.</p>
<p>Friend just tried this with Northwestern and was told it would result in reevaluation of application. He was planning on dropping AP Physics. Reason given was that his application was approved based on information no longer true. He choose not to drop. </p>
<p>@Tiger - yikes! Friend trying this had been accepted ED?</p>
<p>My kid asked her GC few years back about dropping a course, her GC advised her not to,. She also said the college would be notified by the GC of any change to D1’s schedule.</p>
<p>Agree that it’s best to call the school. D2 was overwhelmed by an online course, and wanted to switch from the college level version to the high school version. Her ED school said it wasn’t an issue. It’s clear from this and comments above that these are one-off situations. Best to get the answer now rather than have a sword of Damocles hanging over the student’s head.</p>
<p>Going through this with D2 made me realize that this is yet another issue with ED. </p>
<p>Friend of S’s dropped second semester of AP language after early acceptance to Williams, was not rescinded.</p>
<p>But I think the best course of action is to ask.</p>
<p>Yes was accepted ED. </p>
<p>My son was accepted SCEA at Yale, and wanted to drop French second semester. He sent an e-mail to Yale asking about it, and they didn’t care in the least. I think you are likely to get the same answer, especially if it’s stats the student wants to drop.</p>
<p>Hunt - whats your son upto these days.</p>
<p>He’s a first-year grad student in composition at Juilliard. I will say that he never did learn French all that well.</p>
<p>Congratulations! Must have missed a posting about it. Sounds like Yale did not hold him back from making it to Juilliard. :D</p>
<p>My S also emailed his ED school regarding dropping a second semester class… it was an elective( Astronomy) , and he already has 4 years of sciences and is taking AP Physics this year. They had absolutely no problem with it.</p>
<p>Student asked the school and was told no, don’t drop it, because the ED admit was based in part on the strength of the applicant’s schedule, so this wouldn’t be fair to the rest of the pool.</p>
<p>“She also said the college would be notified by the GC of any change to D1’s schedule.” This is so outrageous. Wow.</p>
<p>Can depend on how what you want to drop is related to the potential major, if the college had asked about that and reviewed you in that context.</p>
<p>I’m failing to see the outrage here. The school admitted the kid, in part, on the strength of the senior year schedule. It might care about the change or it might not, but failing to inform it about the change would be hiding the ball. </p>