I'm no longer editor...how do I notify my schools?

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<p>If any of you read my thread from a few weeks ago, you should know that I was comtemplating taking honors English and droppign my position as Editor of the newspaper.
After a lot of thinking and discussion, I have decided to drop my position as Editor and take the English class.
My old schedule was:
Photography
SPanish 4
AP Euro
Newswriting</p>

<p>My new schedule will be:
Newswriting (directed studies and i will only be considered a "reporter")
Spanish 4
AP Euro
Honors English</p>

<p>I have alerady applied to 4 of my 6 schools, and have gotten in to one of them. Do I notify the schools that I have already applied to that I will no longer be editor? And for the two schools I have yet to apply to, how do I show that I was only editor for half a year using the common app?</p>

<p>Thanks again :)</p>

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<p>Surfette, unless you made a big deal out of being editor - such as writing an essay about how important it was to you -- I don't think you have to notify the schools you already applied to -- you really were editor at the time, and you are still participating in the newspaper. I do think that you should accurately reflect your status with the 2 schools you have not yet applied to, to the extent possible on the form. </p>

<p>I don't really remember what the common app form looked like, but I remember there wasn't a lot of space and my daughter ended up cramming multiple titles for activities on the same line, without really differentiating which was for what time frame. In other words, she participated in student government each year, but didn't write out the separate office for each year, instead it was something like: </p>

<p>Student Govt. office1, office2, office3 | X 9 X 10 X 11 X 12 |</p>

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<p>Could you be considered 'co-editor' for grade 12, since there were 2 this year?</p>

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<p>I don't see any reason to let them know. After all, you were editor when you submitted your application. It's not like you lied about it.</p>

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<p>I'll take a contrarian viewpoint. What I see is that you had two typical academic classes and you now have three, which I think helps in strength of schedule. Thus, I definitely would inform the other colleges, particularly if Honors English is English 4. [For example, the UCs require a minimum of four years of English, but Newspaper, at least at our HS, counts as an 'g' elective, and would not satisfy the English requirement.]</p>

<p>btw: I assume you are on a block schedule.</p>

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<p>Yes, I am on the block schedule. </p>

<p>This past semester I took English 100 at my local community college but it was so bad and I learned so little that I decided to take honors Enlgish at my school next semester so I would actually learn something.</p>

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<p>It's not relevant. The change is trivial. </p>

<p>Schools expect that anything written about on the application that takes place in the future may change.</p>