<p>My senior daughter pushed her two semesters of honors science to the second semester of the year because of a scheduling conflict. How will this look to adcoms? She now has AP ABCalc; APGov; APLatin; Hon. Eng. Next semester, she'll have all of these in addition to her sciences? Should she explain this somehow on the common app.? Should she ask her gc to explain?</p>
<p>HELP?!?!</p>
<p>Don't applications show course selections for both semesters? If so, adcoms will see that her heavier workload will come in the second half of the year. I don't think they'd give it a second thought; if they did, they'd probably just presume that scheduling conflicts kept her from taking a more evenly divided workload, which was in fact the case. I wouldn't waste space explaining this on the common app.</p>
<p>No, I don't think they'll think she's slacking off. Sounds like a pretty tough schedule to me!!</p>
<p>My D did her own applications last fall, but I do think many colleges asked for the course scheduling for the entire year. If they only ask for first semester's, maybe she could find a place on the application to inform them about what she is taking second semester.</p>
<p>I hope that's true. I know how everyone says first semester grades are so important ...</p>
<p>My son didn't even TAKE science senior year and it didn't hurt him a bit. I wouldn't worry about it.</p>
<p>I tell students to either write us a note or have their GC write a note about scheduling conflicts. In some cases, those notes factor into our decision making.</p>
<p>Community College is her only choice, I'm sorry.</p>