Hi, I’ve had a really stressful week and decided to drop Science Olympiad, a crucial part of my application. Also, I missed the deadline for my dream school and I plan on applying to transfer next year. Would I still be able to put SO down for my senior year since I made it through most of the season? Should I let them know that I didn’t finish the year with it?
Forget your dream school. Lots of schools can work out for you. Pick the best school for you and go all in, not with one foot out the door.
If your app was truthful when you applied leave it alone but be accurate in the future.
But do t start college with an eye on leaving. Lots of schools you can be happy about.
If your dream school really was the dream, you would have not missed the deadline. So love the school you attend and don’t look back !!
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i would let them know. Talk to your guidance counselor on this though. I don’t think it is a problem. And try to be happy wherever you land!
its hard to say without more details but, generally, you should alert all of the schools you applied to of a big change. It may or may not matter but, they will find out later and might rescind an acceptance too late for you to pursue other options.
I completely agree with @tsbna44 - if the school was really your dream, you would have found a way to apply soon after their ap window opened. Focus forward not back,there are lots of schools likely open to you - pick one and go all in. Dreams are what you make of them.
good luck
So in your previous post, you indicated that you missed the deadline for UMichigan because you waited, literally, until the last minute to submit.
Now, you’re wondering how to edit that application, and contact admissions by stating that you dropped Science Olympiad. My advice to you would be to do the “Disney thing” and “let it go”.
You don’t need to be contacting them just because they were your “dream” school.
I agree with the previous posters, who have indicated that if this had been your dream school, you would have submitted the app, the minute their application opened. (Anyway, that’s what the kids around here do for the UCs in California because the system always crashes in the last week of November-being overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of “last minute” applicants.)
For future reference, when you go to college please meet your university deadlines. Your courses will have syllabi with all expected test dates and project deadlines. The professors have to meet deadlines for the university grading system and they expect their students to meet the same deadlines
Most professors just don’t have the time to argue with their students about extending a deadline for a project or paper (“The dog ate my homework, I had to work” etc.), so they have the student get a timestamp in the departmental office or get notified by internet time source apps. Professors are fair, so if there’s something that has affected the whole class, then they will send emails and convey deadline changes to their students.
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As all commenters before had mentioned it, just let it go.
There are MANY schools out there and many people get too into which school will they attend without even thinking if the school itself it’s right for you.
Make sure to give yourself time ALWAYS to submit work, applications, paperwork, etc within deadlines, that is the most important thing to do, if you don;t think you have the mind to do that right now I would recommend you to start off at a community college nearby and just do the core courses that other schools require, then next year, apply to another school you would like to be.
The reason I mention this is because you being too stressed to not finish the class and the miss deadlines it’s a sign that you need to take a break for a little while. There is no rush, it’s better to live life well than rushing around and do everything in a half-butt way…
So relax, let it go and concentrate on keeping yourself productively busy now, check your options around, maybe find a job for this year or start at a cc for core materials, or even go to another school where you would thrive and you are still within the app window.
Good luck to you.
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