<p>Hello, I am a senior and am pretty certain I am going to the University of Alabama. My last period in school is a really easy elective and I would rather drop it to work more at my job. I have already been accepted and have all the credits I need to graduate. Would it be a big deal if I dropped it? Also, I emailed the admissions office 2 days age and still have not gotten a response. If they do not respond to my email shortly, what should I do?</p>
<p>Keep waiting, you have to notify the university of all changes to your transcript. Not doing so could result in said University revoking your admittance status.</p>
<p>D’s school just sent an email today about this scenario, as apparently seniors have been dropping classes after first semester. (and especially how it looks to colleges) Emailing the school was the correct thing to do, just to be safe. I guess you should wait and see. If it’s an easy elective, I don’t think it will hurt you if you have to take it.
Here is part of the email:</p>
<p>This quote comes from Stephen Farmer, Director of Admissions at UNC :
Why We Care About Schedule Changes–And Why You Should, Too
Each year around this time–just after we’ve posted first-deadline decisions–we start hearing from students who want to change their senior schedules.</p>
<p>We completely understand why students who’ve just been admitted to a college may want to celebrate by lightening their load. But we think that these schedule changes are generally a bad idea, for three reasons.</p>
<p>First—if you’ll excuse the analogy—getting ready for college is very much like getting ready for the Olympics: if you want to do your best, you have to keep training. If Michael Phelps had stopped swimming eight months before Beijing, he probably would have still made it to the end of the pool. But he’d also probably be eight medals shy of where he is today.</p>
<p>Second, changing schedules after you’ve been admitted isn’t fair to the 8,807 students who haven’t been admitted. When we read applications, strength of curriculum weighs heavily in our decisions. When admitted students decide to drop a course or two, they undermine one of the main reasons why we offered them admission in the first place.</p>
<p>Which leads to Third: when admitted students change their schedules without first receiving permission from us, they run the risk of having their admission revoked.</p>
<p>Marybee333, is your daughter going to chapel hill? I’m from charlotte and am pretty familiar with the school. I would have chosen to go, but I will be an engineering major. I was planning on going to NC State, but with the engineering scholarships at alabama it would not make any sense to go to state and pay thousands extra to go.</p>
<p>No Chapel Hill for us, but this quote came from there and was part of an email send to seniors at Ds school this week, because it nicely summarizes the issues with dropping courses mid year.</p>