<p>when's the first instance that universites see your senior year grades or progress reports? is it true that all they see when you apply (about your senior year) is your schedule? thanks!</p>
<p>They will see the grades that you got in the terms before you sent your app.</p>
<p>but that doesn't include progress reports does it (since they're not on the transcript)?</p>
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<p>no, of course not.</p>
<p>D was accepted ED last year. She was required to send 7th semester grade report as part of her acceptance and then a year end report at graduation. Schools require evidence that you are continuing the efforts you made to get accepted in the first place.</p>
<p>Many/most schools wait for your first semester senior year grades before they consider your application. Interestingly, we were told at Rutgers they don't wait for the grades, they admit you based on first three years of high school grades.</p>
<p>Unless of course, you choose to apply EA/ED</p>
<p>In my son's case, the 1st quarter marks were included on the transcript. All the RD schools wanted the midyear grades sent when they were available. If a student is on the fence, midyear marks may help or hurt.</p>
<p>Should have pointed out in my post above that DS's school does not give quarterly grades. First semester finals are in January and grades come out in late Jan.</p>
<p>Just a reminder to seniors. After you've received your acceptance letters, don't 'take the rest of the year off'. The S of a friend was accepted to Penn, slacked off the rest of the year with a resulting drop in GPA and wound up on academic probation to begin his freshman year. He felt lucky that they didn't recind his acceptance.</p>
<p>does that mean they stopped him from taking classes for a year?</p>
<p>No, he was allowed to attend in the fall after his senior year, but the number of courses he could sign up for were restricted and he had to show good academic standing. (Meaning he had to achieve a certain GPA - don't know what it was.) If he hadn't been able to maintain the GPA he would have been asked to withdraw. </p>
<p>He did reach and maintain the required GPA. The whole thing could have been avoided if he hadn't taken on the spring of his senior year with the attitude of 'Hey, I'm accepted. I can blow off the rest of the year - what are they gonna do?!' Well, he found out.</p>
<p>but, is a little slouching okay like if i dropped one AP?</p>
<p>...the reason i ask is because i have track next semester and i dont want a full schedule</p>
<p>His version of slacking off took him from a +4.0 weighted to getting 2 C's (one of them nearly a D) and B's at year end. I mean he REALLY slacked off the rest of the spring.</p>
<p>And while it is important to take the most rigorous courseload you have available, (especially if you're looking to selective schools) dropping one AP course is not going to give you the same problems _____ encountered.</p>