<p>I have kept a very high GPA throughout my high school years. However, now that I am a senior I became very busy and I guess senioritis kinda hit me.... so my 1st quarter senior GPA dropped... I have 3 ap's and other regulars but one of the AP's I am taking, AP Lang, is very hard cuz it is the teacher's first year teaching. So she never gives us good grades and doesn't teach us anything. So I talked about dropping that class and taking an online AP Class, AP enviro with my counselor. However, she told me that it will significantly affect my admission to the early decision school.... is that really true? woudl the college heavily judge me based on changing one class in the middle of the year? I really can't let this one class bring down my GPA so much. </p>
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While the class may be difficult, I seriously doubt that it is due to a new teacher teaching it.</p>
<p>Whether a change will affect your ED decision or not, you will have to notify your ED school of the schedule change.</p>
<p>You need to contact the adcom of all the schools you have submitted application with the old schedule on it. The senior class schedule is one of their consideration factor for admission.</p>
<p>Yes it can. Last year my friend’s D was accepted into a top school ED. She wanted to drop out of one AP class and called the school to be sure it would not be an issue. The school indicated that if she dropped the class they would re-evaluate her admissions decision so she sucked it up and stayed with it. So the bottom line is if you drop, do it now before a decision is made and it likely won’t be looked at favorably if you are applying to the elite schools. I’d go with what your guidance counselor told you. If you need to meet with the teacher outside of class or get a tutor or something to help get through I’d go that route.</p>
<p>AP Lang is a core AP class that college love to see and especially like to see a student doing well. Not doing well or dropping it says a lot - so don’t go there.</p>
<p>Do they really have a 1st year teacher teaching an AP class like that, or it is their first year teaching at the school? In any case, you’re going to meet a bunch of professors in college who are going to be WAAAY tougher, so get used to it. Suck it up and get your grade up.</p>