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If your at the level of taking AP classes then I’m sure you already have the choice of most universities so enjoy the experiences you can have while you can still have them because one day your 22 sitting on fierceboard wishing you could get it all back!
I understand your points completely - and agree - which is why my student athlete gets to travel through out the year. BUT at least where we live AP exams are common and in no way set you apart they are now expected and commonplace for any college track student - choice of university is not the case in our area at all. Also cheer is not considered an excused absence and schools in our area are not required to allow rescheduling. Moving Summit back would help but then it would mean the same of Worlds. If this is a sport of youth and teens then the organization has to start realizing academics matter and they need to start getting creative in how to make this work better. I don't have the answers but I feel moving it back is a start.
Agreed. The weekends fall right at a bad time for almost everyone with the end of school years and exams and should be moved a few weeks and that would solve so many dilemmas for parents and students. I don’t know how the college kids on worlds teams manage with finals week being that week for 90% of universities! And I know in my statement that not everywhere is like My area in Ohio and aren’t the universities I was looking into. I know my experience won’t be like everyone’s and it also just goes as a blanket statement for school in general and not just The AP scenario. I just hope it can give some people a bit of a different thought about things if they would like to consider it if it applied! Because I know my mom struggled with some of the same decisions as did I, because I was the first one in my family to have to balance a sport as demanding as ours as well as being and student trying to get into a good university with a good scholarship.