<p>My D is taking AP Environmental against my better judgement. She has always struggled with critical thinking questions and that is the majority of the tests in this class. There is a tremendous amount of independent work and they are expected to master the details of the chapter. The teacher is not available for extra help as he says "its a college course and they need to work independently." I went to college and my professors were available.</p>
<p>Anyway, she's running a shaky C. Our school will switch her into regular environmental and it will not show a withdrawal, but D has already applied to some colleges and is told she'll need to explain why she dropped
Yikes!! Which is worse - do poorly even risk a D in the AP class or switch. Then how do you explain without setting up red flags of doubt to admissions counselors.
She applied to Towson that says they make a decision based on grades 9 to 11 so I'm not sure what that means. Other schools are UMASS, URI.</p>