<p>Already been notified of acceptance...but i'm in a real bind, here. </p>
<p>I'm taking an online calculus course through FLVS which is eating up all of my time. At this rate, it will be very difficult for me to finish my IB art portfolio and IB extended essay.....and self-study the additional APs i wanted to take in the first place. I don't at all plan to slack.</p>
<p>I've already completed the required math track for IB (two years of Math Studies), but I chose to take Calculus online because it would make a favorable impression with admissions and so that i would be prepared for college level math. My counselor made sure to let Harvard know that I was taking this class in addition to a full schedule.</p>
<p>If i can drop this class without being assigned an F, would Harvard still consider it very negatively when they recieve my final transcript?</p>
<p>You took the class to get in and when you got in you're dropping it? They probably won't like it if you explain it that way. :) At my school in the second semester some students take on independent studies, and then are able to drop a course. Many of these students were already admitted to college and so had to write a letter to their college explaining why they were dropping the course. It's considered a really prestigious opportunity to take an Independent Study here, and the college office makes that very clear to schools, but sometimes the colleges still don't let us drop courses. I would say write to Harvard before dropping the course, in case they're against it. After all, they admitted you under the impression that you would continue to take all the classes you listed, and do well in them. Good luck. :)</p>
<p>oh definitely. if i decide to carry through with this, i would certainly call harvard first. </p>
<p>right now, i'm just trying to see whether this is even a legitimate reason to call. heh. if this seems awful and sleazy to CCers in the first place, i won't even bother.</p>
<p>if i do call, i would make it clear that i'm self-studying other subjects (chemistry, art history, economics, US and comp govt = fair trade for calculus AB?) which would more than make up for the drop.....</p>
<p>i know that i could have it justified by my school, since i skipped the necessary prerequisites for this course....but whether harvard cares that i have eyes bigger than my stomach, i guess, is another story.</p>
<p>ontolome--this is my advice. and it will probaby sound really slackerish, but here it is anyway: stay in the class, but just don't try that hard in it. I assume that with minimal work you could probably get, say, a b- in the course? harvard is more likely to care if you drop the course than if you get less than an a in it. in fact, I know they won't care if you get a b or b-. </p>
<p>you can call them, but they probably won't tell you what you want to hear. last year I wanted to drop ap chem, because, despite getting an a first semester in the class, it was making me miserable. I called and emailed my admissions rep in january (after getting in EA), and she waited two weeks and then sent me an email saying "we expect students to continue in their rigorous course loads."</p>
<p>so good luck with that. I am not familiar with compiling an IB art portfolio, so I don't really know what your time burden entails, but look at it this way--you've posted 510 times on this board, and I imagine that you engage in other time-wasters as well. maybe you could cut out some of those activities and focus on the calc? ; -)</p>
<p>ontolome--Dec 2005 minus Aug 2004 = 16 months. =1 and 1/3 year, which does not equal 3 years. if you stay in that calc class, you too will be able to manage complex mathematical problems such as this one. jk. ; -)</p>
<p>just<em>forget</em>me-- you know CC has a special place in my heart. I do not hate. ; -)</p>
<p>to the rest of you--the best part of coming to harvard post-CC is meeting all of the people you talked to on CC as paranoid seniors in high school. just<em>forget</em>me and I, for example, talk about recent CC posts over meals in annenberg from time to time (with our voices lowered of course, so as not to be discovered by the people in our class who are not as geeky as we are).</p>
<p>I'm in kind of the same predicament :/ Actually, I'm really frightened because at this moment that class that I want to drop is the one that I have a 'C' grade in...it's really making me miserable, and I'm trying incredibly hard in it. It's an online class as well (Spanish IV) but I feel like I wasn't prepared to take it (The school I go to ranks really dismally in about everything..) Up until this semester I've had straight A's, and I don't want Harvard to think I'm slacking all of a sudden...it sucks.</p>
<p>If you are thinking of dropping a course or taking a different one (as I did after I was admitted), call your admissions officer first to make sure your admission won't be rescinded. In my case, I changed from taking trig to taking a robotics course that I was more interested in so it wasn't like I decided to take a study hall, and they were fine with it.</p>
<p>I'm also in an online math course, except I'm three months behind rather than havin it eat up all my time. I dunno if I'll be able to finish but I doubt Harvard will ever see the grade as it is not on my transcript</p>
<p>How did you find out who your regional admissions rep was? Did you just call Harvard up and asked to speak to the admissions representative for X city/state?</p>