Will Having a Free Period Impact My University Application?

[cscott]

Last year I completed two courses in the space of one, so this year I may have the possibility of having a free period. I was just wondering if having a free period looks bad to universities even if I have all my credits.

 

[Stephan Hoyer]

Universities see your transcript, not your schedule. They won't even know you have a free period unless you take less than a full load, in which it could conceivably look bad, but if you're still taking plenty of challenging courses I can't imagine them caring very much.

 

[Woozie]

I seriously doubt that a university would care if you had a free period. Like Stephan hoyer said, the university probably won't know if you had a free period. I know a lot of students who had free periods in my senior class in high school who not only got into good schools but got good scholarships.

 

[amcavoy]

...on top of that, each high school is so different that your schedule (with the free period) might be the same schedule (or better) of someone else without a free period.

 

[cscott]

Cool. Thank you all.