I could use some insight here. I was just looking at the high school report/profile for my son’s school, the one that gets sent to colleges, and noticed that it lists several AP courses as being offered which were in fact cancelled in previous years. One of these (AP Physics C) impacted my son directly and he has mentioned it in various parts of some of his college applications.
The school doesn’t offer very many STEM related AP classes to begin with so the profile shows that he could possibly have taken 4 science APs but in reality, only one has been available.
S is a senior and is applying to schools that say they consider the rigor of applicants’ course selections. Looking at his transcript and looking at the high school profile, they are going to see a kid who professes to want to major in the sciences but who doesn’t appear to be pursuing the most difficult science coursework.
Any thoughts on what, if anything, we should do about this? Is it something the GC should contact the colleges about or should S do so? I’m not exactly panicking …concerned though, and wondering. Thx.
I think every HS has a disclaimer in its course catalogue that classes are subject to cancellation due to low enrollment. FWIW, it happens at the college level as well. College admissions officers know that.
If applications are in and your son mentioned it in the application, he’s good to go. Personally, I would have had the GC cover this issue on the Secondary School Report instead of having the kid mention it, but what’s done is done.
Also, just because a school offers 4 science AP’s, there is not expectation by any college that a student needs to take them all. 
Thanks skieurope. I wish I had caught it earlier but will bring it to the GC’s attention regardless.
But if a college thinks the kid is not taking the highest rigor available due to a clerical error, that seems like it could be a fairly significant impact.
While the student will labor hours and hours on an application; the AO will spend 10-15 minutes tops reading it. S/he is not going to overanalyze the student’s schedule. S/he’ll look for the checkmark from the GC on where the course rigor lies. One would assume (although you know what happens when you assume) that a GC will not mark down the rigor due to the class being cancelled.
Additionally, even if a class is not cancelled, some schools would be lucky be able to offer a single section of some of these AP courses, which could lead to scheduling conflicts to the student who tries to double up.