I was taking 6 APs, honors band, and PE at the start of this semester (the most rigorous schedule possible for a senior at my school). Due to some schedule conflicts with other commitments I had, my counselor and teachers advised me to drop band, which I did.
My counselor told me that it’s not really worth the hassle of emailing my colleges (Ivies), but I’m worried that I’ll get rescinded if they compare my transcript with the classes I said I’d be taking on my Common App and there’s a difference. Should I email them now?
The OP dropped band. I cannot imagine any School, even an Ivy, would care about that.mi would listen to your counselor on this one. You are drawing unnecessary attention to soemthing that truly isn’t impkrtant. But it just may cause them to think “hmmm, maybe this kid can’t handle a full course load” even if band isnt academic. If it were an academic class, you would have to inform. If you dropped wood shop or sewing, you wouldn’t inform them, would you? Unless you are actually intending to become part of the college band, I see no point in notifying.
What hassle? It will take you less time to write the email than it took you to write this post.
They won’t care, but almost every college I’ve seen does ask do be advised about schedule changes. The OP should advise them as a courtesy, if nothing else. The college many simply delete the email rather than adding it to the file, but at least the applicant can’t say that s/he didn’t tell them.
I can’t imagine anyone would care that you dropped band, but it is good form to let colleges know of changes to your schedule. If it is making you nervous at all, then that is another reason to send an email. The other alternative would be to wait until you have your acceptances and top choice(s) and then contact that school or those couple of schools to be 1000% certain that dropping band was fine before you accept the offer of admission.
