Well, my family isn’t doing as well financially so they say I should be prepared to move during senior year or even before it starts this summer… Please tell me what I should do, because I am already at the stage of turning my AP commitment forms (due tomorrow).
How will these APs transfer, as well as everything else? How will colleges see this when I apply. I’m scared I won’t have any APs next year because this whole switch >_> and I need my teacher recommendations before then if this does happen
I moved twice in high school (after living for 12 years in one place!), including doing my senior year in a different country. First thing - everything will be fine! If your new school does not offer APs, the school report will reflect that and you won’t be penalized. Try to put your counselor at your new school in touch with your old counselor, so that the old counselor can share information about the old school that the new counselor can put in their report (that’s what my current counselor did!)
The APs you’re taking this year will be fine - I’m not sure what you mean by “transfer.” If you mean whether they will go on your transcript as APs, I don’t see why not - but like I said, you can get your counselors to report your situation (or explain it in the “required explanation” section of the common app; it’s required for people who mark “i have changed secondary schools”).
Teacher recs - I got all of mine via email. Like I said, I live in a completely different country now. Before I moved, I asked my teachers in person whether they’d be willing to write a rec (so like in May/June of junior year) and then I asked them officially, with details, over email sometime in October. If it’s possible to ask for recs completely in person, definitely try that, because badgering people over email is AWKWARD but it is possible!
The irony is that if your new HS is academically weaker than your last HS and doesn’t offer as many, or even less APs/Honors courses, then you will actually be better off in the admissions process. Likewise the inverse is true. The biggest issue is with getting ecs as those might be difficult being the new student and not knowing anyone.
@lunascreatures What I mean is, how I will take APs next year? (at my school they require commitment forms before the next start of the school year) <-- not sure if this is how it works everywhere
Isn’t there some sort of sign up process for AP that I will need to fill out in order to take it at a new school?