<p>Hello parents,
I have a quick question for you.
I'm a high school senior recently accepted to Yale and Columbia.
This year I've taken some of my classes online due to lack of available classes at my school. One of these classes is an AP stat class. For a variety of reasons (my own business/procrastination, a very unresponsive teacher, confusion on some of the material), i'm very behind in this class. I would like to drop it because i have a lot of other things going on, i don't enjoy the material, and it's frankly stressing me out. </p>
<p>On the common app I listed AP stat as a course I planned to take second semester. Would it be dishonest to inform the colleges that I was accepted to that I decided not to take the course? And if that's okay from an ethical perspective, do you think there's any chance my admission would be rescinded for it? If it's not okay morally to do that, is there any other way I could let colleges know I'm no longer taking this class? Or should I just suck it up and stick the class out? </p>
<p>Sorry this is such a trivial question and thanks for any help you can give me!</p>
<p>It is okay to drop the class but you do need to let the colleges know. I had the same situation. Two of the schools I was accepted to asked me to send an email, the other really didn't care. There was never any indication that rescinding admission was even a possibility.</p>
<p>My daughter also had a similar issue, but she didn't inform her college. However, I don't know if she informed all the colleges about the course -- she mentioned it in some apps, but not others. She just didn't think it was a major factor in her admission , as it did not show up on her high school transcript or midyear report -- so I don't think it even occurred to her to mention it. </p>
<p>If I were you I would call the admissions office of the college where you plant to matriculate and ask if that is significant to them. My guess is that colleges see changes in plans as to spring semester courses all the time, and probably don't care unless it is a failure to complete a core academic course that they expect all their students to have. </p>
<p>Would this course have shown up as being in-progress on the midyear report?</p>