Hi guys,
So I recently committed to the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. I’m SUUPER excited to go to U of I, and I love it so so much. After committing, I got this weird feeling and double checked my self reported grades against my transcript. I found two things.
- During my junior year, I took driver’s ed privately through another company. The school took a really long time to update it. I didn’t see it on my transcript when I was applying, it seems as it has been updated only recently. I didn’t even know it was going to BE ON my transcript, so I didn’t include it. It is a pass/fail course.
- Summer before freshman year, I took Algebra I over the summer so I could do higher math. I didn't include it on my application because it was something I had taken BEFORE high school, though I didn't realize it technically counted for high school credit. I got an A.
I’m planning on calling the admissions office ASAP on monday, but I’m currently VERY worried. Its May 1st, commit day. I thought I’d be relieved from this damn admissions process, but looky here, I’m still stressed.
Do you guys think it would be okay if I simply called and explained? Its not like I explicitly TRIED to lie here, there was no malice in my intentions. Just underlying stupidity. I’m quite scared about being rescinded.
Thanks,
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I’ve never heard that one even has to inform an Illinois high school that you’ve taken a private driver’s education course - both my kids did that - no time to take it at school, LOL! And, in our district, driver’s ed taken at school doesn’t count in calculation of the GPA, or fulfill a graduation requirement. As for the math course, you assumed that you took it before you started high school, and at any rate, you got an A, and if it wasn’t on your working copy of your transcript by fall of junior year when you were filling out the self-reporting section on the application (wasn’t that fun? Not!), I don’t see how you can be faulted for assuming that course wasn’t a part of your high school curriculum.