<p>I know, I know that second semester equates with senioritis and unfortunately, I'm yet another victim to that.</p>
<p>and my grades have been suffering as a result. </p>
<p>What does it take for a college to take away its acceptance? How much does one have to go down?</p>
<p>do they even see them? Up until now I was under the impression that they didn't</p>
<p>I have been wondering about that too, but what about for highschool?</p>
<p>My guess is that the standard for a college to take acceptance away would depend not only upon the college, but also the effort and potential of the admitted.</p>
<p>JyankeesSS2: Your counselor usually has to send a final transcript to the school at the end of the year.</p>
<p>iloveapples: I think it would be wise to stay within at least .5 GPA points of your GPA when you were admitted (eg - If you get in with a 4.0 as your 7th semester GPA you should try to stay above a 3.5 for 8th semester.)</p>
<p>Yeah, what it seems to me is you can let your grades drop at most one letter grade in each class. Just not two. A friend of mine's girlfriend applied to Brown and went from A/B to B/C and she was fine. I think my grade might go up in one or two classes, down in another one or two.</p>
<p>dude that blows. I've got senioritis sooo bad its not even funny. I just dropped an AP class. And I took a very long hiatus from school -- like two and a half weeks. But I had a good excuse~ so no worries about that. I just want to go to college. My mom keeps getting on my back about how I have to graduate and keep my grades up and all that bs. whatever...</p>
<p>School is school. Think about it as a self-improvement experience. Without determination and effort, nothing will be "scavanged" from the last few months of your experience.</p>
<p>i know a girl whose acceptance was revoked. her grades dropped from as to cs</p>
<p>Where'd she get revoked from and where did she go?</p>
<p>Any other seniors replying to this thread?</p>
<p>A stellar student gets his UCSD admissions revoked because of 2 Ds on his final transcript, according to a San Jose Mercury News article. Lesson I learned from that? Second semester grades do matter. I've been kind of slacking off, but I'm on a rebound right now.</p>
<p>Colleges have conditions, so check out what they are. In the UCs I got into, like Irvine and Sta. Cruz, they expect me to give them a gpa of 3.0 or higher for my 2nd semester; University of the Pacific, another one of my schools, said the same thing. My friend who got accepted at Hopkins told me that she discussed classes with the counselor there, and according to the counselor, any Cs that she gets in any of her classes will make her admission subject to reconsideration.</p>
<p>They're all different. Just make sure you scrutinize your admissions conditions from the college of your choice; don't be blind to the fine print.</p>
<p>Good luck with keeping those grades up! Only a mere 3 months before graduation! I'm so stoked... :)</p>
<p>Do colleges care about quarter or midterm/final exam grades, or just course grades at the end of the year?</p>
<p>i dont think it would matter, but then again that's not an issue for my school as our semester transcripts never say the quarter and semester exam grade. just the semester grade, so colleges never know. for ex. i got 3 B's for the first 9wks of senior year and by the end of first semester brought them up to A's to hand in a 4.0 mid yr to colleges and all they saw was A's <em>thank God</em>. so i would check to see what exactly your transcript will show at the end of the semester</p>
<p>yeah, i opened one of my official school transcripts since i had (still do...) extras and my school doesn't show midterm/final exam grades.</p>
<p>at least in our schools here, i'm assuming, it's just semester grades that matter. but seeing that you're going to be at cornell, mercury, (CONGRATULATIONS!!! :) ) maybe they have other conditions and stuff so it won't hurt to check it out just to make sure. erring on the safe side doesn't hurt. or you can take a peek at your own transcript (if you have extras) and see how your current high school prints it out.</p>