<p>I was just reviewing my transcript and noticed that I might have an alarming number of absences. From last year, I missed a total of 55 classes, missing a total of 13 classes in some courses. Most of these were unexcused.</p>
<p>Now, my grades in these courses are still quite good (honestly, I learn better without the teachers).</p>
<p>Do you think this will have an adverse affect on my application to top schools? Does 55 seem like a lot to top colleges (or you)?</p>
<p>Pray you can appeal on a highschool new computer system institutional glitch. Some don’t record right, used alternative words to mean same thing, and aren’t corrected even with notes handed in.</p>
<p>In this electronic age, it’s easy to push a button, and hard to get it right if not correct.</p>
<p>Good luck and don’t miss college classes. Many now take push button attendence via a gadget you must buy, and if you’re not present it factors into your semester grade. </p>
<p>Well, in this competitive college app world, details matter, that’s all I’m trying to say. If you’re sure the number is correct, then I guess your ok. Our kids just fell under the new $2million dollar new electronic attendance and it was a messy year. That’s what I was suggesting you appeal if that was your case.</p>
<p>As to those stupid attendance gadget thingys, my teen goes to a top ranked school which uses them each semester. She takes that issue quite seriously.</p>
<p>The transcript shouldn’t make a distinction between excused, unexcused, sick, vacation, or days missed due to school sanction field trips (ie academic teams traveling for national championships). It just records days, or in this case, class periods missed. </p>
<p>For example: You miss 5 days due to illness in a year, 3 for academic reasons, 2 for a family vacation, and 2 because you are visiting colleges. That is 12 missed days (all excused in our example). Assuming 7 classes/day this equates to 84 missed class periods. This is a completely believable example. </p>
<p>Do you want to miss this much school? Should you take vacation when you have college visits planned? Perhaps not, however when you break down the reasons why people miss a couple of days…It all falls into a believable amount.</p>
<p>Now, you may want to personally address why you are missing class on a regular basis for unexcused reasons. The point isn’t if you learn better with a teacher or not, it’s the expectation that you be there…that’s why it’s unexcused. You may want to read your schools policy on truancy. This could come up and bite you on the rear if you don’t know the limit in your county.</p>
My transcript lists excused (teams, sick, etc.) and unexcused absences separately. They are listed per-class and per-period. I have about 28 unexcused periods.</p>
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I go to boarding school, so I almost never miss entire days—it’s usually a first period or something like that.</p>
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The school doesn’t have a problem with it, mostly because I’ve been able to charm the person in charge of this sort of thing. Their attitude is basically the same as mine: “If his performance is fine, does it matter?”</p>
<p>To be clear, this isn’t that unusual at my school. Student tend to skip classes a lot, often to work on assignments. It’s a very competitive school, but the teachers are really rather shoddy…</p>
<p>“Now, you may want to personally address why you are missing class on a regular basis for unexcused reasons.”
it’s a WEEK. how is missing a week of school over the course of one or two years alot??</p>
<p>the amount is no big deal. but the “unexcused” might give you a problem.</p>
<p>“Well, in this competitive college app world, details matter, that’s all I’m trying to say.”</p>
<p>Well, yes – but absences don’t matter. Colleges want to know your GPA dont care about if you showed up or not. Don’t let Giverherwingsmom’s direction throw you. </p>
<p>Attendance in HS is superfluous – unless they affect you academically.</p>