Dropping sports after season ends

Applying to College
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I am a high school senior who played basketball for full 4 years and my last season ended at mid February. Basketball is a class in my second semester schedule, and what other seniors and I expected was that after season, seniors will be enrolled in basketball still, but do not have to attend the postseason workout/conditioning since we are “done”, while other grades do. (Sorry I’m bad at explaining)

However, recently my coach had messaged all seniors to drop basketball if they will not come to the class. After a month later season ended. Some seniors only have 5 classes including basketball, and our school requires all seniors to have at least 5 classes; it is too late to add classes after 3 months into the semester, so they are forced to attend basketball. I am not in that position with 7 classes in total and can drop it with no problem, but I have one concern.

I heard that dropping a class senior year does not look good to colleges. The college I got in so far are the UCs with couple waitlist at others that I would like to go. So if I happen to drop basketball second semester of senior year (after season finished), will colleges care, especially waitlisted ones? Also, if I’m going to drop it, should I do it now, or try to wait a little, since rest of my college decisions are coming out this week?

Should I drop basketball or there’s too much consequence that I should not?

Thank you for reading and hope I can hear about your opinion!

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I am by no means an expert, but I can’t imagine that dropping an off-season sport you aren’t intending to continue in college would make any difference in your application.

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Agreed nobody is going to care that you dropped basketball

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If a school is the sort to care about dropped classes, they may also raise an eyebrow at having a class called Basketball in the first place. :smiley:

But if you’re worried about a minimum number of classes you should take this to your guidance counselor. It’s a problem a bunch of kids are facing and could easily be dealt with by allowing all the BB kids into some other gym class, for example. The school should address this one for you.