<p>If I were to move to a new high school between sophomore and junior year, how would that affect admissions to top colleges (like harvard)?
and wat can u do about it? </p>
<p>thx.</p>
<p>Solutionguy, I have two kids who got into Harvard, 2012 and 2013. Both of them attended 3 high schools… I think it actually helped them because it demonstrated that they could be successful and become involved in new environments etc, despite the “hardship” of having to move, leave friends-familiar surroundings. My advice to you is if you do have to move make the best of it, get involved in your new school and community in activities that you enjoy and continue to excell academically. This will show any school that you choose to apply to that your are able to “grow where you are planted”. Good luck.</p>
<p>thanks so much for your advice!</p>
<p>My daughter changed high schools between 10th and 11th. There were definitely some bumps in the process. The grading scales of the two schools didn’t match up perfectly. The old school didn’t have courses designated “AP” and “honors”, and the new school did. She had trouble getting into AP courses in 11th grade, since she hadn’t gone through the application process for them. Some teachers let her in, some didn’t. As a result of the foregoing, her counselor later refused to say that she had taken the most challenging curriculum available, although there was no question that she had in her old school, and she was in all APs in 12th grade. </p>
<p>Did that make a difference in college admissions? Maybe yes, maybe no. She wound up going to the college that she knew the counselors at the old school would have pushed for her. The admissions director at one college told her not to worry about the different schools, but definitely to send a separate transcript from the first school rather than relying on the translation of that transcript on the second school’s transcript. (It helped that both schools were well-known at the colleges where she was applying. As he said, “We don’t need a counselor’s letter from [School 1]; we know how to read those transcripts perfectly well.” She didn’t get into her reach colleges, though, but they WERE reaches.</p>
<p>The other thing that happened was that she fell out of line for leadership positions in ECs. That was unavoidable.</p>
<p>Actually, people at the new school felt kind of guilty after they figured out that she was a really good student and they might have hurt her in the college admissions process. (This was about the time she was one of five NMSFs at the new school.) They wound up drafting her to run a program so that she could show some leadership.</p>