<p>Why do your guidance counselor need to check yes or no, if your school is on a block schedule? Can't you function with or without one?</p>
<p>It limits the courses you take. So it is important.</p>
<p>I wonder what other schedules people are on? My school used to have a period schedule , which allowed us to take 8 classes per year. When we switched to a block schedule, we also took eight classes per year - they were just half a year long. (Actually, when we switched to block scheduling, it limited the number of classes we could take because some AP classes were year-long, and everyone who got put into the new schedule halfway through their high school career had to take an extra gym class.)</p>
<p>The college needs to know if you are on a block schedule or not because it affects what classes are going to show up on your senior schedule. If you are on a regular schedule, then they should expect to see that you are enrolled in all of the academic classes. However, if you are on a block you would only be enrolled in half of your academic classes and these are what will show up on your mid year report.</p>
<p>At the two high schools I know, courses that are on a “block schedule” meet 6 times out of 8 days. There are a total of 48 blocks, thus allowing the students to take more classes. When the school is on a 5-day schedule (monday through Friday), something has to give: either the student doesn’t take as many classes or the course doesn’t meet as often, since there might be only 30 periods.</p>