Mid-year report changes

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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Alright so I applied to all most of my college regular decisions and my counselor just recently submitted the mid-year report. This probably isn’t a huge deal but I dropped two class ranks (2 to 4) in the mid-year report. The reason why is because some people took advantage of a program at our school called College Credit Plus, where they can take classes at a local university and get double the AP credit in the same amount of time (a little broken, yes).

I was wondering if something like this would affect my chances at a university like UPenn, as my performance did not drop at all. I kept all A’s and had a rigorous class schedule.

Also, does anyone know how quickly the adcom in colleges get to applications for regular decision (~Jan 1)?

Thanks guys.

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As long as you have maintained your GPA, it should be fine. If you don’t get into UPenn, it won’t be due to your class rank. As for how quickly admissions gets through applications, it probably depends on that school and what order they go through applications (randomly, by state, etc). There’s a thread that tracks likely admissions release dates: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1853138-admissions-notification-dates-2016.html#latest

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Thanks a lot!