I am currently a upcoming senior of high school. My school is unique in the fact that it breaks up classes by semester, allowing us to have 4 classes each semester. I will have all the necessary credits to graduate high school by the end of the fall semester so I decided to graduate a semester early. However, now that I’m getting my college applications ready, I am worried that colleges will not like the fact that I graduated early and didn’t do anything necessarily productive.
Our fall semester ends in December so I was planning on visiting my home country for around 2 months from January to March and then getting a part time job afterward.
Will colleges take back their acceptance if they see that I didn’t do much during the break? I am planning on applying to Rice, Emory, etc through Questbridge.
Also, what can I do during the time to be productive? I can’t go to CC since I am going to be out of the country for 2 months.
I think you will go through most of the college process in the fall semester. Make sure to apply early action so you can get acceptances before you leave…this way it will be easier dealing with the guidance office.
Make sure you talk to your guidance counselor about how this would work
Make sure you are not short changing yourself on classes…
Have you taken Bio, Chem, Physics and maybe an AP version of one of those? Math through Calculus? recommended amount of history? 4th level of a foreign language?
Do you care anything about senior events like Prom and graduation?
one more consideration is will it take you out of the running for community scholarships given to high school seniors around or at graduation. For my high school we had scholarships out in the spring given out at a senior awards night that you wouldn’t have been qualified for since you were no longer a senior.