<p>I am a junior and received my first tardy in my high school career.. I assume it is not a big deal, but will it appear on my transcript? Will my attendance be a factor for top colleges admission?</p>
<p>Even if it does show up on your transcript, one tardy shouldn’t be much of a problem.</p>
<p>Some transcripts do include attendance information…ask your HS guidance office whether your high school includes this information.
You do not need to worry about one tardy…if anything, this information helps you. The kid who chronically shows up late needs to worry.</p>
<p>Thanks, I was freaking out because it seem like a big deal.</p>
<p>“I was freaking out because it seem like a big deal.”</p>
<p>You’ve said you’re a “top school” applicant. Maybe take some of that top school smarts/knowledge/experience and review your situation again. It’ll help you avoid the freak out and obvious overreaction. Think about it.</p>
<p>The way you’re writing, you make yourself out to be the sort that would never color outside the lines or take a shortcut. Basically, very staid. That doesn’t serve anybody well in top schools admissions.</p>
<p>I would also disagree w/siliconvalleymom. DON’T ask your guid counselor if the tardy shows up on your transcript. Talk about an eye-rolling moment. Don’t do it.</p>
<p>I agree with siliconvalleymom, check with your counselor ASAP if attendance goes on your transcript. 1 tardy probably won’t get you automatically rejected, but you’re on thin ice.</p>
<p>Napalm: here’s the lunchtime conversation of the guidance counselor the afternoon after OP comes and asks her if the single tardy will appear on the transcript and might affect college admissions:</p>
<p>“Can you believe that 4.0 wonk who came in asking if one freaking tardy on his transcript will shatter his chances at freaking Harvard or Yale?”</p>
<p>And everyone at the table will roll their eyes.</p>
<p>Don’t be that person, mmei!</p>
<p>Who cares about the GC’s lunchtime ramblings… we’re talking about a kid’s future.</p>
<p>Oh, for Heaven’s sake, no we aren’t! We’re talking about a ridiculous question from an overly anxious teenager.</p>
<p>Really, you don’t have any cause to worry whether your school reports attendance on transcripts.</p>
<p>(Oh, wait…I fear I may have lost my ability to detect irony.)</p>
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<p>And the GC’s lunchtime ramblings will definitely color the GC’s recommendation letter. Which is a huge deal for getting into top colleges. One tardy: pretty much cannot matter in top college acceptance. Becoming “that kid” to your guidance counselor? Might be the breaking factor.</p>
<p>^ That is true. Find someone OTHER than your GC to ask. Maybe the principle, or really anyone who won’t be writing your rec letters. Or you could ask graduated seniors, they would know.</p>
<p>Also, was the tardy in an academic class?</p>
<p>Oh my, napalm, are you actually serious? I was sure you were being facetious.</p>
<p>I knew I overreacted, and I have tried to meditate throughout my classes. However posting on CC really helped to calm me down. I don’t think I will talk to the counselor this minuscule issue. I don’t feel like it is going to ruin my chances for admission, but I am still lamenting because this could all be prevented. Thank you for all the inputs.</p>
<p>@napalm2013 I am planning to ask some seniors tomorrow, and it is a tardy in CIS chemistry.</p>
<p>Hmmm that class sounds highly academic… Yeah tardies really are an easily preventable thing but now that it’s happened, does your school have an appeals process?</p>
<p>Napalm: are you seriously proposing mmei go an appeal a tardy? One that, even if it appeared on his/her transcript, would mean LESS THAN NOTHING?</p>
<p>You really want mmei to look like a grand idiot? Please read what poster #10 said. This thread has veered ridiculously – and I’m partly to blame. Sorry all.</p>
<p>T26E4, I’m actually kind of entertained. In an incredulous kind of way.</p>
<p>glad to be of service to you! LOL</p>
<p>Oh good grief, what you really need to do is ignore Napalm2013’s goofy posts. He’s obviously just a kid yanking your chain–though you did leave a really long chain out there to be yanked. Stop thinking about this, don’t ask anyone else what they think, and stop visiting this thread. You are obsessing over trivia. Move on!</p>
<p>@MommaJ, well, this thread is entertaining, in a way. I am smiling as I read everyone’s response.
@T26E4, an appeal would work, if I am yearning to become known as the Class Clown and the Worst Case of 2014.</p>