<p>My high school offers Late Arrival and Early Release opportunities for seniors. I'm a junior currently and am pondering whether I could take a late arrival/early release. Some people say that colleges frown upon you doing this, like it gives the impression that you're "slacking off." I still plan on taking rigorous classes my senior year, I just don't see the point in adding on blow-off classes to fill up a class period when I could leave school early. Is it true that doing this will hurt my chances at admission?</p>
<p>Adding "blow-off classes" [as you referred to them] is going to get the very same frown that your Late Arrival/Early Release plan will get. If you're planning to only take lame classes that don't matter to you, or that don't add to the rigor of your classes, if you don't do your Early Release thing, then you might as well leave the class period open.
If I were you though, I'd take a class that will look good on my schedule, that I'm interested in, etc etc. I had the same opportunity, I guess, for this year, and loaded up on the AP classes that I was actually interested in instead.</p>
<p>It depends, if you're trying to get into Harvard or something, don't do it. If you're aiming for a public school, it's ok.</p>
<p>What state schools don't want to see is
1st: Off
2nd: Off
3rd: Basket Weaving
4th: English<br>
5th: Cooking
6: Underwater Basket Weaving
7: Off</p>
<p>I mean an off period is going to kill you, but a bunch of off periods with blow off classes is going to make the schools go "hmm?".</p>
<p>Do what I did. If your school offers a Dual Credit Course that only meets two out of the five days, go for it! I only have a full day of school Thursday and Tuesday, the rest of the days I get off at 1200.</p>
<p>DP</p>