<p>Not sure if DS had seniorits… I mostly thought of it as senior exhaustion. There was a LOT of work including prep for 5 IB exams, ECs (incl some missed school for a state competition and band events and illness.). Eventually he conceded that it was not possible to make up all the PE classes, and he took a B.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure I had one of the worst cases of senioritus ever and it started middle of my junior year! Much like footballmom said, I started working sophomore year and realized pretty quickly by watching my senior friends that running on the hamster wheel to get all A’s in the honors math & science track wasn’t worth the effort, since they were all getting into the schools I’d apply to with less than stellar effort. My dad got ill during my junior year and that changed what was important as well. </p>
<p>During my senior year I had 39 absences (we were allowed 10 per marking period; it was changed shortly after I left 
and I walked into my GC’s office on my 18th birthday to ask if the colleges I was accepted at would take a GED in lieu of a HS diploma. Poor new GC; guess it wasn’t a question she was expecting one of the NMSF’s to ask. I finally agreed to finish out the year because it wasn’t worth the hassle of dealing with the GED fallout. But I was done with all the HS bs and wanted to get on with my real life. </p>
<p>I turned out fine. Received my BA, earned a Masters with a 4.0. And I’ve found myself telling my D to “get off the hamster wheel” quite a few times during her junior year.</p>
<p>I think that Junior year was the most difficult year with all the testing and AP classes. They couldn’t even slack off in June since there were Subject tests to take.</p>
<p>My son’s load, even with 3 APs is so much lighter this year that while I think he is absolutely ready to be done, he didn’t have to work as hard senior year so I don’t think he felt the same desire/need to slack off. </p>
<p>I also think that there is a line that many students who resist senioritis may decide they are not going to let themselves drop below. I think if a student never had a D, that they would find it stressful/disappointing to know that the endpoint of a year’s worth of work was that grade.</p>