Do colleges look at the number of credits earned from high school?

Instead of the state requirement of 24 high school credits, my district lists the required credits as 22. The only supporting documentation I could find was a notation on the state DOE that districts can waive up to 2 credits in extenuating circumstances. Due to “extenuating circumstances”, I may find myself with 23.5 credits at graduation. Do colleges look negatively on this? Should I ask to make up the credit? I am not even sure if my district allows make up credits. Any suggestions would be helpful.

You can ask your counselor to explain your “extenuating circumstances” in the documentation that counselors have to send. You’ve met the criteria to earn a diploma. If you meet also meet the admission requirements for the schools that you are applying to, you should be fine. It is what it is. Don’t look back, look forward.

Not 100% sure tbh. But pretty close to positive, it doesn’t matter.

You can certainly go from GED to PhD and very few GED students would have the exact number of credits required.

And on the other end of the spectrum students graduate early all the time. These students have the pre recs met to get school to sign off. They certainly didn’t take enough extra classes to make up for a whole year.

And home schooling isn’t structured like that either. How do you assign credit for PE or perhaps elective like wood shop in a home school.

And public schools give out 1 credit for homeroom other such blocks if I remember correctly.

I am certain colleges will be more concerned with the rigor and performance against that rigor. That being said, this assumes you met their basic profile - graduate in good standing, such as 4 years of math science lit - 3 years language and extra and co-curricula activities like to be seen at any particular college. Required teacher recs and the like.

You have to look at the distribution of courses that each institution requires.