<p>I am just curious. I am a senior and throughout my highschool career, I have been absent a total of 29 days (so about 7 absences a year). Do good universities care about attendance, or do they only really start caring if it is out of hand. I got a 32 on my ACT, and have a 4.05 GPA, Top 10 percentile. I am also All-State for soccer. Also, I am going to play several professional games for my country's national team. So due to all this, i dont have time for any other extracuricullars. I plan on going to an Ivy League School. </p>
<p>I don't know how colleges would find out about absences, unless they are mentioned in your recommendation letters. You would only be likely to have a problem if your teacher or counselor mentioned that your absences were interfering with your education, which doesn't seem to be the case here. And 7 absences a year sounds like the high end of normal to me.</p>
<p>Yeah, my absences are listed in small letters on the bottom of my transcripts. And the absenses make no impact on my grade. More than graduation, I dont want a school like Northwestern being like what the hell is wrong with this kid. He is not dedicated to school.</p>
<p>I don't think the absences should matter at all, but I wouldn't be so sure about getting into an Ivy league school. Well, in your last post you mentioned Northwestern and that's not Ivy, but I certainly hope you have good matches and safeties, and realize that a 32 is not that good for Ivy league colleges.</p>
<p>i really don't think they see that--do they? i hope not, b/c i've probably missed about 60 days in my high school career. (i have a med. problem for which i have periodic dr. appointments.) plus, i just don't like to come to school. and in my early days (9th and 10th grade) there was no point in coming every day if i could still get straight A's.</p>
<p>i don't think they have a spot for it on the transcript. at least, i hope not! :p</p>