So my counselor decided to inform me today, of all days, that I had one outstanding credit to graduate: Health. Damn you Health. Thus, because of this last minute reminder, all online courses had been filled and I was forced to switch out my last semester of AP Psych for Health. On my mid year report college will see that I took AP Psych for one semester, but my four AP course load was just reduced to 3. I have taken 7 AP’s in the past, and this year would have added up to 11. I am spending work outside of class with my Psych teacher to grab and learn the material as I still plan to take the test in May. I will inform all the colleges I applied to with this sudden change but do you guys think that it will make a huge difference within their decision? If I inform them of the circumstances and the extra time I’m taking to self study for the exam and how I still plan to take it, will they take it into consideration? Any input would be nice at all considering that I’m freaking out 
If you explain your situation to them (or ask your guidance counselor to do so on your behalf some way), I highly doubt your chances of admission will be negatively impacted.
The lesson to learn is that it is your responsibility to stay on top of graduation requirements. In high school, you are lucky that your counselor reminded you of the graduation requirement. In college, the advising may not keep track of you as closely, so you need to make sure that you are completing requirements for your major and general education that will have you graduate on schedule, rather than needing extra (potentially expensive) semesters like a large percentage of college students.
@Episteme My counselor said they were willing so I hope that everything turns out alright!
@ucballumnus Oh yes, in full honesty I do take full responsibility over the matter. It’s good for me to experience the lesson now though than later!
Did you try BYU independent study high school for a health class? The class is inexpensive and good quality, at least the one my daughter did was fine.
Surely you have alternatives to health class online? I have no idea how an online course is considered full. I doubt it matters with psych vs PE but if you wanted a real alternative you would have worked harder than this to get it.
I can’t imagine that a college would care if you took 10 APs vs 11.
@Alfonsia I understand your confusion. My district has recently instituted a new policy with all online classes in which they must effectively record the amount of minutes the student takes sitting down in front of their computer to complete the course. This to me is stupid and ruins the point of an online course but, in order to do this, they have to have all the students registered sit within a certain number of available classrooms at a high school in my district. Which means a student would have to bring their laptop to the high school, sit down, and do the course there. This makes availability low and the number of spots limited…why my district decided to make the online course this difficult, i have no idea. Considering I am a senior, summer school is not available to me. My school doesn’t allow before or after school classes. When asking my counselor and going through all the possibilities, the only thing that was available was to take the class.
@CheddarcheeseMN I feel the same way also a bit. My concern is the rigor of my senior year course load. I don’t want them to think I’m slacking and moving out an AP class to take an easy class such as Health. My course load this year was: AP Psych, Choir, AP Bio, AP Stats, AP Lit, Honors French 7-8. I did well in my first semester, all A’s, but to see the removal of AP Psych and the placement of Health is what makes me concerned.
@NorthernMom61 Thank you so much for the alternative but unfortunately my district doesn’t take any credits from outside institutions or establishments other than from the community colleges that surround my area and their own online courses.
@fcallicotte That is unfortunate. My daughter did all of her PE requirements and her Health requirement through BYU independent study so that she could fill her school schedule with full year courses, one year a second science and one year Chinese I. The PE courses I believe, were far more rigorous than anything that she would have gotten at her school and involved months on logging the specific fitness activities she had to do to pass the course. She was able to do the Health class in about 5 weeks self-paced and liked the material so much that she actually kept the reading packet that came with the course. She would have been bored to tears taking Health with her high school peers.
That being said, I believe the colleges all are aware that there are some rigid sets of course requirements for most high school programs and will be able to see that you were required to fit that Health class in so that you can graduate.
Health is a graduation requirement. They will care WAY more about you not actually graduating than about you dropping and psych (not a core academic class anyway)
@saintfan True dat. Hahaha, it is now a running joke in my family that I will be admitted into a nice university but will have to be held back in high school due to Health.
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