<p>For those super-hard-to-get-in colleges, do they look at attendance too? I've already had 3 absences and 1 tardy this academic year....will that hurt?</p>
<p>My son's transcript shows absences/tardies and I would guess that colleges look at your attendance to determine whether you'll show up for their classes. But, you've not really missed that much school. Gee, a bad cold can keep you out of the classroom for 3 days! As long as you don't plan to skip the next semester, you should be fine.</p>
<p>I'm gonna guess not really, unless it's like huge.</p>
<p>Your grades really show it if you miss a lot of class.</p>
<p>I have a friend who got into University of Michigan, after she missed... oh... I dunno... a good 3/4 of Sophomore year due to a disease</p>
<p>Her GPA was a 4.0 though so even after missing classes, she still managed to get into a top public school</p>
<p>Hmm I have 14 absences this year. Gotta love senior year.</p>
<p>3 absenses and 1 tardy is no big deal.</p>
<p>13 might be a bigger deal.</p>
<p>Thanks for the feedbacks. That's actually what I thought so I've been skipping school whenever I feel like doing it (but of course I am a mature young adult and don't let that happen a lot) I had perfect attendance last year, so I was just worried that they would look at my attendance and go, "hmm, that's odd..."
and updates! I had another tardy today. haha</p>
<p>whne you skip, do your parents know? just wondering</p>
<p>and what do you do with yourself</p>
<p>I was deferred after applying ED to Barnard two years ago, and I believe (although I'll never know) that one of the reasons for my deferral was an unusual number of unexcused absences. I skipped a lot, particularly in the junior spring and senior fall semesters - not whole days, but selective classes, enough to nearly lose credit for a couple courses. Perhaps it wasn't the actual fact of absences that bothered Barnard, but a teacher may have noted it in a recommendation and they wanted to see if my habits would change. Granted, they didn't, and I still got in - and I'm sure there were more pressing reasons for my deferral - but it was something to consider.</p>
<p>My transcript read the following</p>
<p>9th grade - 68 absences, with 30 excused
10th - 70 absences, 50 excused
now get ready
11th - 147 absences 112 excused
12th - 216 absences 216 excused hehe (I went to about 3-4 weeks of the second semester)</p>
<p>The school year is about 700 hours</p>
<p>I don't think Brown cared ?</p>
<p>"whne you skip, do your parents know? just wondering</p>
<p>and what do you do with yourself"</p>
<p>Yes. And I sleep of course.</p>
<p>Surely you're joking, Negru, and if not, surely you had a valid reason for missing all that school.</p>
<p>i have had 5 absences alone in the last 10 days...i had a sickness..then i had 2 doctors appointments that lasted all day i was in school one monday sick tuesday-friday went to school monday again then had doctors appointments tuesday..that was this past tuesday...</p>
<p>Whatup perfect attendance throughout all of high school.</p>
<p>Well yes, I had a reason, I was always away for physics contests, but nobody addressed the issue anywhere on the transcript or recs. So if they cared it would've looked pretty suspicious. </p>
<p>What I'm trying to say is if I got in with hundreds, 3-5 sure aren't going to hurt you.</p>
<p>216 days of physics contests????</p>
<p>Do you mean 216 hours? because my school goes by days... and there's only 180 days... so.</p>
<p>you know... I've missed 420 hours (at least, its above 60 days--a full trimester, lol) this year so far, but my total hours would be 1260</p>
<p>I'd say 3 days isn't bad.</p>
<p>I'm lucky enough to have teachers who don't care about tardies, otherwise I'd have had around 300 for sophomore year.</p>
<p>There's so many good excuses for one or two tardies in almost your whole academic career. If they cared, colleges would certainly assume you had a good reason.</p>
<p>+training and stuff, and because I was in the national team, i had to finish senior year and take the final exams in the middle of the second semester</p>
<p>^ yes, hours..ofc</p>
<p>Good, didn't think we even went to school for 216 days..</p>
<p>Oh....HOURS...that's another story!</p>
<p>Heh, sad ... I haven't even been absent from a whole day of school since the beginning of 7th grade -- and I'm now more than half way through my junior year. D:</p>
<p>/nerd.</p>