<p>Ive read that absences on your high school transcript can possibly raise red flags to colleges. What might you consider an excessive amount of absences?</p>
<p>Im currently a valedictorian, but I must admit that I didnt mind taking days off from school when I felt too tired or a little sick, since it obviously did not affect my performance. Absences just dont seem to matter too much at my school, as long as you have below 9 each semester in order to exempt exams. Additionally, many of my teachers did not even bother to take attendance, which makes it look as if I skipped
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<p>Big mistake?</p>
<p>How many/what is going to show up on your transcript?</p>
<p>Clearly Stanford doesn't want a degenerate, so if it looks like you've taken the semester off, yeah, they probably won't like that. But if everything looks okay on every piece of paper they receive, then they won't ever be the wiser, will they?</p>
<p>My transcript shows the number of absences for each class per semester. Basically my average semester would look like (7, 5, 4, 4, 5,6), and this trend is pretty much the same throughout high school. I probably miss around 14 days a year or 8% of school.</p>
<p>No, Stanford doesn't care about attendance, since that data isn't available for every applicant.</p>
<p>thank you.
and that does make sense</p>