<p>So I got accepted ED at Tisch. I'm an art major, ergo, not a math person. Nonetheless, I've always tried to challenge myself by taking honors math and science courses. This year, I'm in Honors Precalculus and I HATE IT. The only reason why I'm even passing this semester is because I've got a friend helping me. He's not taking the class next semester, and I've heard it gets a bajillion times more hard second semester. I KNOW there is no way I'm going to pass it, not to mention it makes me so miserable I dread going to class every day. I dropped it for Probability & Statistics next semester, but I'm just curious if NYU will have a problem with this. I wrote down on my app. that I would be taking Honors Precalc second semester (before I decided to drop it) and I'm just wondering if they would consider that lying. Or, would they have a problem with me not taking a whole year of precalc? I know if I continue with the class it'll be academic suicide, so I'm really set on not doing it.</p>
<p>I don't know for sure... but dropping a class this late seems to me to be bad news.</p>
<p>Had you dropped it like a week into schools, things would be different, colleges would never know you took the class.</p>
<p>But dropping now would probably not look good. Especially since colleges like NYU like to see students taken up to Calculus, not just pre-calc.</p>
<p>Yeah, but I'm an art major. It's not like I'm pre-med or anything.</p>
<p>It's not like you are dropping a class to spend an extra hour a day shopping. As an art student and citizen, statistics is going to be much more useful than precalc anyway. I'd send your college admissions office an email telling them what you plan and ask them if it makes any difference to them. No rational person would ever criticize you for asking this sort of question. You are also not the first teenager to change their mind about something. Heck, I'm <em>cough</em> years old and I've been known to change my mind once or twice.</p>
<p>Okay, but if I e-mail the school won't it sound like, "OMGZ, LYKE, DIS CLASS IS SOOOOO MUCH WORK N STUFF!"</p>
<p>Your intrests are elsewhere. It's not like you're not you're not taking a math course or taking a really simple one. Just ask if it would be alright. I honestly don't think that they would revoke your admission because of dropping one course and picking up another.</p>
<p>I have a similar question, and hopefully someone can answer it.</p>
<p>I put down on my app that I was planning on taking Spanish 9 next semester(It's the last Spanish class offered at my high school), but I didn't take Spanish 8 this semester(scheduling conflict/don't really wan't to take it anyways).<br>
However, before break, my counselor told me that there was very little chance that I would be able to get into the Spanish 9 class next semester, because there are 45 kids signed up for it(the cap is 30), and preferance is given to kids who took Spanish 8. This doesn't really bother me in the slightest academically, because I don't have any interest in Spanish, and I mostly signed up for it before school started this year just so I could say that I was going to take a 4th year of Spanish.</p>
<p>My question is this: I got accepted ED to an elite LAC(top 5ish), and I was wondering if I will have to notify them that I won't be able to take the class. Not because I'm "dropping" it, per se, but more that the class is simply too big, and thus I won't be able to take it. I would rather not notify the school, if at all possible, just because it saves time/don't have to worry about it, but would the school need to know if I changed any part of my pre-planned schedule that they saw on my application?</p>