<p>Do schools like HYPMS care about your attendance when considering you for admission? I have really bad attendance and I wouldn't want this to be the reason I got rejected :(. </p>
<p>I've done/I do well in school, but I just hate going.. so I don't.</p>
<p>Well I missed about 2 and a half months of my sophomore year due to a brain bruise, and I haven't gotten any flack from it. However if you just don't go to school for the sake of not going it might hurt.</p>
<p>No. At my school attendance doesn't even go on the transcript.</p>
<p>Same, not on transcript. I wouldn't know another way they would find out. I just wouldn't get recs from teachers class you have skipped, obviously.</p>
<p>I don't know of any HS that puts attendance records on the transcript, and the GC recommendation form doesn't ask, so chances are very good they won't even know.</p>
<p>I'm sure you know which teachers are concerned about or overly conscious of your attendance record - just don't ask them to write your recommendations and you should be good to go.</p>
<p>I hope not. I'm in the same situation.
Freshman year I was OCD (went to school even if I was sick), only missed two days. Three days sophomore year, then junior year, ELEVEN. Now I've missed 10 days first quarter of senior year. Haaa.</p>
<p>I think colleges should request attendance records. High school students who cut class become college students who cut class. Quality colleges don't want students who aren't interested enough to attend class.</p>
<p>Attendance only matters if it's affecting your grades. Colleges expect kids who never go to class to do poorly, so they don't request attendance records.</p>
<p>To stuytechmom:
Admissions officers have more than enough material to go through without having to deal with attendance records (and the accompanying explanations and excuses). The point of going to class is to learn the information; if you can pick up the information without being in class, then more power to you. There's nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>@Stuytechmom,</p>
<p>Respectfully, I don't think that's a fair assessment. First of all, people who are routinely absent are not cutting class; they're just not going to school, haha. Secondly, I missed 17 days in my senior year (although, to be fair, 4 of them were to go to an academic conference in DC) and in 18 months of being in the work force, working full-time, (I didn't go to school right away), I have missed a grand total of one day.</p>
<p>Totally agree with hopeslikeflowers.</p>