Okay, so here’s the deal. I’ve been accepted (yay!) to Boston Universitie’s College of Communication and all that jazz. However, they mentioned the standard “must maintain academic performance” level". How strict are they about this? It sounds like I’m a slacker but this senior year I’ve overextended myself. Five AP courses, PLUS a class/sometimes job working for the theater department. My grades are still holding up well with a 4.1 Weighted GPA, but I am incredibly worried about my AP Calculus course. I am BARELY passing with a C at this point, and although I’m confident I can pass this semester, I don’t think I stand a good chance of passing second semester. Will BU change my status if I drop my AP calc class second semester? I’m also thinking about changing my technical theater course, and instead taking a TA period but I’d still work at the theater every now and then… god, I sound like such a slacker. Any thoughts on my predicament?
<p>You don't sound like a slacker, but you do sound like your priorities are a bit misguided. You are planning not to pass the next semester? Talk to your college counselor about the advisability of dropping AP calc. I would think it is a bad move. You should probably drop electives first. Keep math, eng, sci, and f-lang. Consider dropping the others. If you are in calc BC, you can drop to calc AB.</p>
<p>it's not that I'm planning to fail, it's just that the material has gotten SO difficult that I KNOW that I couldn't pass unless I really put an ungodly amount of work into it, and even then I doubt it. It's one of those things where I'm so far behind that it's nigh impossible for me to keep up. Secondly, my school calls it AP Calculus as a yearlong course. In one semester we cover the AB material, and than second semester the class covers BC. </p>
<p>I just want to know if BU will rescind my acceptance if I don't take another semester of math, even though I already technically have four years of math (took geometry during the summer) and I'm not majoring in a math related field.</p>
<p>To tell you the truth, BC is not any more difficult than AB, just more material. As long as you spend the time to learn it and do your homework, etc., you will learn it just as easily (or difficult) as AP Calculus AB.</p>
<p>By the way, get Barron's.</p>
<p>I got accepted into Williams College, but after careful consideration, I decided to drop Calculus BC altogether ( approved by my counselor, & Williams College admission officer). Call your admission officer and ask.</p>
<p>You can drop it if it is making your life miserable. </p>
<p>I had AP stat, AP Eco, AP Eng, AP Bio, AP Chem, and AP Calc BC.</p>
<p>Damn, AP Bio & AP Chem at the same time?</p>
<p>yup... AP bio was the true killer =/. i really wanted to drop that instead of calculus, then i was like... learning calculus in college will be much easier than learning biology</p>