<p>Does anyone know how UPenn deals with second semester schedule changes or how dropping common app listed courses affects the ED accepted student? I am not refering to a slacking of grades as much as lightening the course load and not taking AP electives. Does Penn's admissions office want to be notified or will they rescind their early decision offer? Any thoughts would be helpful.</p>
<p>Don’t drop courses. They were pretty specific about that. I’d imagine they would find out</p>
<p>I’m wanting to know the same thing…</p>
<p>They won’t let you drop courses, people have asked before and they said they want you to finish the same way you started. That doesn’t mean you have to take the AP exams though. Many people take 5 or so APs but only end up taking 3 exams. I would recommend this for some exams, especially in the college, as AP credit is not too useful in most cases. Exams that you should take if you’ve planned to are Calc BC, Physics C, Econ, Language exams, Stats. I wouldn’t bother with Biology, History exams, or English exams, they don’t do much of anything. You get an elective credit for each, but unless you don’t have enough electives, they don’t do anything. Penn also gives placement exams which are useful for getting credit. They’re given in languages, Bio, chem, and math.</p>
<p>I’m going to speak to the gc at my kid’s school and then I will call the Penn admissions office. I will post after I hear what they say.</p>
<p>Be sure not to drop courses or drop the ball too much! You were accepted based on your record- don’t do something that would go against that.</p>
<p>How does one define “dropping the ball”? Low B’s? Cs? Or lower?</p>
<p>Very specifically I was told that Penn expects admitted students to take the courses represented on their common application and to maintain their level of rigor.</p>
<p>@Poeme</p>
<p>What about Physics B… and by econ you mean either macroeconomics or microeconomics right?</p>
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<p>what if you want to drop a regular, pretty stupid course like California History. I mean, it’s not an AP, no rigor, no nothing.</p>
<p>What if I took a college class and it ends at semester? Would that effect my application? I was initially signed up for the next semester of Calculus but I can’t afford to commute that far to the college anymore since I take it up at the actual college. I would still be taking two semesters of college writing…would I still be in trouble?</p>
<p>squatieri, to answer your question, by Econ I meant both exams (I think they will help you get waiver’s for econ, probably most helpful for people interested in Econ or in Wharton. As for Physics B, I would think it depends. I think credit is given for the lecture (AP credit is not given for labs), but I would think that it only means anything if you are using it to fulfill premed requirement or are a bio major. If you major in any of the physical sciences or engineering, then you are required to take a calculus based physics course, so the credit would be replaced by taking physics 140 or 150.</p>
<p>@cbethany92, if you were accepted to either Wharton or SEAS, you probably have to finish calculus as it is an admittance requirement. I would talk to your regional counselor if I were you…</p>
<p>No, I was accepted to CAS. How do I find out who my regional counselor is?</p>
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<p>You can find the regional counselor in the admissions section of the UPENN site.</p>
<p>Not that this applies much by my sister got into Columbia ED and right after asked if she could drop Linear Algebra (bc she was failing which she didn’t tell them) and they said it was perfectly fine.</p>