Can i repeat my senior year

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Close Menu. Yes, it was my choice. Pick your favorite slogan for the Paw Print. Navigate Left. Navigate Right. The Paw Print. Share on Facebook. They are expressly designed for students like you who want a fifth year of high school before applying to college, and many have very good college placement.

It would probably be a better fit then just doing your senior year of high school again. All Rights Reserved. Should I repeat my senior year? College Admissions. As noted above a gap year could work as well if there is nothing left to take in your HS. Op: does your high school have dual enrollment agreements with a local college? Start over because during this process you made some mistakes and recognize what you need to do to fix these mistakes and want to paint a better painting.

I'm not writing this response strictly for you but for the wider audience of HS students that might have had a slip-up or made a complete debacle of their 9th, 10th, 11th, or senior year. How you survived COVID doesn't define you and each and every one of us had a different experience. For some, we watched 1 or more parents lose work or a source of income, for others we watched a family member get ill or die.

Or perhaps we got COVID and not only missed a lot of schools but are still living with the long-term effects of the virus, whether that is sustained mental illness or physical symptoms. For me, I had suffered all 4 things at the same time.

I miss my grandfather and only could say goodbye on the phone before he died. My point is that whether you are 15 or 17, you have a good years of living ahead of you. It doesn't matter in the big picture if it takes you 5 years to finish HS or 5 years to finish college. It's not a race unless you make it a race. Time is on your side to make it right and live the kind of life you want to live and create the experiences you want to create for yourself.

If it's important for you, not your friends, family, or other influencers, to get into the best college you can, then do this for yourself and the rest of the world doesn't matter. My personal story doesn't matter. I don't have to do this. And I'm taking my own medicine. I don't really care if takes me an extra year to finish college. I will be better for the experience.

I would talk to your counselor about this topic since this is very important. I would suggest that you and your parents meet up with your counselor to discuss the pros and cons of retaking your Junior year.

Ask for the counselor's input and maybe your teachers as well. I'm sure that there will be a handful of students repeating their Junior year since online school was rough.

Best of luck! In short, yes. But since this is the situation now, let's brainstorm and decide what next steps to take. How crud is "crud"? Were you failing? How was your GPA in past semesters? In many college AOs' perspective, and reasonably so, they're going to want to know how you ended up in this situation and what steps you took to get out of it. Having poor grades is a process, not a sudden surprise, so they're going to want to know how you tried to spot and address the issue early on in the year.

In other words, students who are doing poorly often know they are doing poorly; now they want to know why that problem persisted for the entire year.