I’m a high school senior doing dual enrollment. I am taking 18.5 credits this quarter at a community college. I took the same number of credits last quarter, but those classes were easier. This quarter I am taking Calc B, EWRT 2 (transfer level 2nd year english class), physics 50 (equivalent to phyics honors at high school), and beginning programming methodologies in C++. It’s only the 2nd day of school, but i feel really stressed already. I am Absolutely HORRIBLE at literature, and the english teacher is giving us complex passages to read (she even said the readings will be rigorous). The physics class is also a bit difficult, but I think i can handle it if I study more. I dont know C++ at ALL, but i heard my class is relatively easy and C++ isnt too hard to catch onto.
My problem is this: on all my freshman applications, I said that I am taking EWRT 2, Calc B, PHYSICS 50, and C++, and if i drop EWRT 2 then i dont know whats gonna happen. are certain colleges going to rescind me if they find out i dropped EWRT 2?
Furthermore, SHOULD i drop EWRT 2? or just stick it out
If you do drop, be sure to notify all of the colleges that you applied to quickly. You also need to consider whether dropping the course reduces the number of English courses to below the four years’ worth of high school courses or equivalent expected by selective colleges.
Yes, that is a college English course. If you do not take it now, you will be taking it or a similar course next year in college (but you will probably have harder other college courses like a real college physics course and more difficult CS course).
@ucbalumnus ok, how about this plan? can i take the course next quarter (in march), but declare it as a pass/fail? this way colleges wont have to see what grade i get at the same time if I end up staying at CC for another year, it wont ruin my gpa.
You need to inform all colleges that you are applying to if you make any schedule change, including changing from letter grade to pass / not-pass. Also, English composition courses are typically required to be taken for letter grades (often for any or all of high school graduation requirements, college admission requirements, and college graduation requirements).
@ucbalumnus this is not for high school grad requirement. i already took another english class last quarter for that (EWRT 1A). but thanks for the info