Hi,
I am a senior and have already submitted my college applications for the CSUs but I’m considering dropping AP Gov, I’m still taking AP Lit and AP Psych but it’s just too much with sports and work. I was wondering how that will affect my college application, I really want to go to SLO or SDSU but will it look bad having to drop one of my AP classes?
Probably look bad. Especially if you replace it with nothing. Regardless, you have to inform colleges of the change.
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D21 had two course changes with the same subject after she submitted applications, and one course change with a different subject. With one subject, she had no choice - one (college physics) had to be changed due to COVID (impossible last-minute situation with in-person logistics and there were major health concerns) and then had to be changed again (AP Physics downgraded to Physics Honors) due to unforeseen scheduling mismatches with other courses - and then the other subject she upgraded to a more interesting and rigorous option (from a three-credit basic English dual credit course to a four-credit, more advanced college English course) that had not been available to her before she submitted applications. How those two course subject changes will affect her admissions results we do not yet know. We hope it won’t affect her negatively (thinking particularly of physics), but the changes had to happen, so no sense in worrying about it now. So one course difference is a downgrade (with two total changes!) due to reasons beyond her control, and one is an upgrade to take advantage of an opportunity she did not previously have. But in every single instance, she immediately notified all the colleges and explained the reasons. They need to know especially before they make a decision, so the admissions officers don’t feel they were subjected to a bait-and-switch.
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