<p>This is similar to the recent post about dropping Band senior year--my daughter's a junior at a small private school and is one of the mainstays of the choir, women's ensemble, chamber choir, etc., but she's really not happy with it. They don't perform sophisticated material (Doo-wop songs??!), and the other girls are cliquey and not very nice to her. She's deeply involved as a teen leader in an international religious choir which performs much more complicated stuff. She's very dedicated to that, and has even been forced to choose between the two organizations' events on occasion. Sadly, the school obligation often comes first. </p>
<p>IF she quits (or, rather, does not re-up in the Fall) she's concerned that there will be repercussions both for college admissions and at the school. I'm sure the latter will be awkward--but she is involved and has leadership positions in other organizations at the school. </p>
<p>Will a college care that she's not still active in the school choir, if she shows her continued dedication and involvement with the International choir? Is this the kind of thing worth explaining in the Common App, or should we just let it die a quiet, natural death?</p>
<p>Is the choir a class? If so, her schedule will simply show a different class, and her resume will still show singing extracurriculars. I don’t think it will matter to colleges, as long as she has plenty of activities. Perhaps she can fudge it at school by picking a class that conflicts with choir, and giving that as the reason for her decision.</p>
<p>I don’t think it will be a problem especially since she is continuing with the other organization. My daughter is only a freshman but she is planning to quit orchestra after sophomore year. She wants to take business classes and there is no way she can pack business and orchestra on top of other core academics.
I was also afraid that it might impact the college admission, but she will be continuing her lesson with an instructor outside of school until graduation and I decided to honor her true interest, which is business.</p>
<p>Colleges care that you have deep interests and pursue them. They don’t care where you pursue them. I think it shows a lot of maturity to drop an activity that isn’t meeting her needs or her standards to be more involved in one that is. And she can write about this decision in one of the innumerable short answers she’ll have to give on her application supplements!</p>
<p>Thank you for the input; if commitment to singing, per se, is what needed to be demonstrated, then I don’t think this will be a problem. She’s not going to discuss it this year (why stir up drama), but come the Fall, she will just not audition. </p>
<p>I agree, won’t matter. On her activities she will show choral vocals and how she participated, probably leading w the outside chorus anyway. So 9-11 for school, x-12 for outside. Will show continuity, passion etc. for the activity regardless of where. </p>