I was accepted into SDSU and I’m confident I will be attending there in the fall. My senior schedule consists of AP Econ, AP Lit, AP Stats and Pre-Calc Honors. I have already fulfilled the A-G requirement for math and these two math classes are essentially extra, however I have a really really hard pre-calculus teacher and it has been easily the hardest class I’ve taken in high school. I have talked to my counselor and they have said that I am fine to drop the class if I wish to do so. I really want to drop this class because it’s truly kicking my a** and has an unbelievable amount of work involved. I called SDSU to ask if I could drop this class a few weeks ago and the admissions lady said it wouldn’t be an issue because I would be dropping it rather than getting an D or F and I had already completed my A-G requirement and it wouldn’t be counted in my GPA. However, I called again today to double check and this lady told me that she was unsure on if this could get my admission rescinded and she wouldn’t know until the admissions office reviewed my final transcript. At this point in the semester I would receive a WF on my transcript but I am fine with that since I hate this class, I’m just concerned about the possibility of getting my admission rescinded. Do you think that dropping this one class for one semester would cause me to lose my admission? Thank you!
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Contact SDSU admissions since you need to let them know if you change your Senior schedule. If you do not and they receive your final transcript, then it is grounds for being rescinded.
I see you have already contacted Admissions at least twice… great. Information of this nature needs to come directly from the college, since what anyone on this forum “thinks” about whether or not you will be rescinded is not going to matter one whit.
Since you seem to be getting conflicting stories I recommend sending an email explaining the entire situation clearly and getting their response in writing. If you call again, make sure you are speaking with an Admissions Officer and not some student volunteer or receptionist.
What do you intend to major in? If it’s anything that ever will require a math class, I suggest that you stick it out. I think most high schools will allow you to drop down from honors section to regular section. Drop down to regular precalc now, but don’t drop it altogether. They’re not gonna rescind your acceptance because second semester of senior year you dropped down to regular math from honors math.
The reason I say this is that you need to learn what they’re teaching you in precalc. My kid finished precalc (having dropped from honors track math to regular math) in 11th, then dropped AP calc AB early in senior year. After all, kid was NEVER gonna need math again, kid was going into language-related fields, was very strong in English and foreign languages. Surprise! Kid found out kid LOVES the puzzle work of Comp Sci, is pretty good at it. Majoring in Linguistics and hoping to double in Comp Sci. So now needs Calculus AND Statistics. Now struggling with Calculus in college, says that the issue is not that Calc is that hard, but that kid didn’t really learn the precalc math very well, so is having to reteach self precalc math as they go along in calculus. Thank God for child of proudparentofanerd!
So, the point is, don’t abandon math now, or you may be stuck taking (and paying for) remedial math in college, before you can even start on college level math, and you’d be surprised how many fields require some college level math - all sciences, premed, social sciences (statistics), basically, anything where you have to design studies and compile results. So try dropping down to regular precalc first. You can always drop that if you need to, but you won’t need to, with your track record.
And yes, call admissions and let them know that you’re dropping down from honors precalc to regular precalc. They’re not gonna rescind your admission for that.
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