<p>Ok well UC apps are due Wednesday and I'm sending them in tonight, however I plan on changing my classes for next semester (our school has 4 classes from august to december, then a different 4 from january to may). Unfortunately, I can only submit a change request on Wednesday, so I would have to go through whatever procedure is required to notify my colleges that I changed my planned classes. I was just wondering, is this frowned upon? I really want to change my classes and I'm fine with e-mailing colleges or whatever it is, but if changing may hurt my chances then I guess I'll be fine keeping what I have already.</p>
<p>Anyone? :/</p>
<p>won’t hurt you
as long as you’re not switching from all AP’s to slacker classes</p>
<p>Well I might switch 1 AP down to a normal version but I still have a 2nd AP that I’m keeping. If it’s bad I can try to keep both though. Thanks!</p>
<p>Don’t worry about this. Lots of people have to change their schedules for any number of reasons.</p>
<p>I don’t think I would drop an AP after applying, unless you are sure that you won’t do well in it. If it is going to negatively affect your GPA/rank then drop it, but if you can handle it I would keep it. It obviously can’t hurt your application to keep it, but you never know if it may hurt your application by dropping it.:)</p>
<p>Well basically it’s because my workload next term is building up to a lot. I have myself down for AP Government and AP Statistics but I’m also in our student government which is basically just called Leadership, and I feel like that might be too much so I was just going to try to switch AP Gov to normal gov. I can see what you guys mean though, thanks for all the helpful replies!</p>
<p>The UC schools require you to notify them of any schedule changes. The mere fact of changing classes won’t hurt your app. However changing from more challenging to less challenging classes will reflect on how they view the difficulty of the load you have taken.</p>
<p>BTW the nature of UC admissions may work in your favor here if you keep the class. UC admissions are provisional, and while the specifics differ from school to school generally they expect no grade below a C, an unweighted B average for senior year, and no more than 2 or 3 C grades. Since they usually don’t see your 1st semester grades before making a decision (unless you’re on the bubble of getting in and they do an “augmented review”) you could strategically decide to keep the AP class and aim for a B in it rather than an A; even a C would be ok. </p>
<p>I’m just throwing this out there; you should think carefully about whether this would be something you want to do. And of course if you’re also applying to some privates that see 1st semester grades this might not be a good approach.</p>