<p>I am planning to drop an honors credit class this week, but not because of grade-related reasons or laziness. I'm dropping because the teacher blatantly harassed me and I no longer want to take the class because he/the class makes me feel uncomfortable. </p>
<p>Will admissions see this in an unfavorable light? I honestly liked the class and the subject...I just had something really messed up happen with the teacher. Also, I am taking a full load anyway without this particular class (5 APs + 1 online AP and 1 online honors).</p>
<p>Any sort of comments or insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks..</p>
<p>Dropping a class never looks good, but I believe you have a strong enough course load without this class that it won't hurt you much.</p>
<p>How were you going to explain it? Would your guidance counselor or some one in your school's administration be able to corraborate your reason for dropping?</p>
<p>Well, I have pretty good relationship with both my counselor and principal, so they would probably be able to write a statement of some sort, if you think I should get them to write one?</p>
<p>I don't know how elaborate I or they would need to be with the explanation though, or if what I said in my original post would suffice..</p>
<p>is there any way you could drop it but take another course in its place?</p>
<p>if you drop it, your counselor should explain it in your app. but if your counselor knows or if your principal knows then why is the teacher still working at your school?</p>
<p>It looks pretty bad. I'd just stick with it, depending on the level of harassment of course.</p>
<p>Well, they don't know yet. I explained the situation (somewhat reluctantly) to my mom and she's going with me on Monday to see the principal. It wasn't sexual harassment or anything too extreme, but more of a verbal attack. I just feel very targeted and uncomfortable and I don't really want to deal with such an immature teacher. I refuse. Even if he apologizes, I know it won't really mean anything. I know that sounds very stubborn but I promise it's for a good reason..I wish I could explain the situation in detail but I don't really want to on this board..</p>
<p>Yes, I could take another course in its place but the thing is...I am taking a full load of six AP's already (the most in my school), and dropping this honors class would not really make a huge difference. I'm a bit relieved that my burden will be a little bit lighter if this goes through... do you still think it would look very bad?</p>
<p>Here's what I would do. Talk to the counselor and principal about what happened. That should get the teacher an official reprimand at least, if not fired. It should also put a note on your transcript on why the class was dropped. Then I would just continue on. If, when you get accepted, a college or university asks about it, you can point to the transcript addendum, or get a letter from the school. If you have schools where you have not turned in the application yet, I'd leave this course off the list of classes you are taking senior year. </p>
<p>Your course load is plenty rigerous without it. I'd just drop it for this semester. If you find you have scads of free time, and want to pick up another semester class at semester break you can do that.</p>
<p>I know for all the colleges that I am applying to, they state that you must contact the school and notify them before you do anything. Essentially, you must ask your school's admissions committee for permission.</p>
<p>I dropped a class second semester last year but it was because I was on an abroad program and taking that many classes made me have an 11 hour school day.</p>
<p>Thank you UCDAlum82. I'm going to do that. I've only sent in one application in for early action, so for my next applications I will just leave this class off my transcript. And I doubt I will have loads of free time left over even if I drop it ;-x</p>