<p>I just opened my rice admissions letter today, and I read the little section saying that academic decline is a reason for Rice to rescind my enrollment. Now, this year for me has been a little different. 1st semester, I drove down from my suburban private school 4 days a week to take Calculus III at the University of Cincinnati. Since this took so long, I missed quite a bit of my classes at school. I had to drop out of one elective because I could only be there on fridays and it was a participation-based class (Ethics), but I'm taking it next semester. I was there only 10 minutes out of a 55 minute class 4 days a week for AP Gov, so my grade suffered because I had to learn everything on my own, a B. And I missed a little of AP Chemistry every day too, a class that I would have struggled with regardless, and I think I'm going to end up with a C in there. Additionally our AP English teacher was decided to be worthless in the first two weeks of school, so more than 60% of her students dropped down into a regular english class.</p>
<p>So basically my record is going from all A's and one B per year in the most challenging courses in the school to a mix of everything with fewer classes, but all are still challenging. I'm worried that Rice is going to be suspicious of this shift, and I was wondering if anyone has heard of someone having their admission taken back because of something like this. Should I write them a letter explaining how my University of Cincinnati class basically took over my life for a semester, and my grades won't reflect my effort level senior year? Or may that be seen just an excuse, something that they don't want to have to read? I would appreciate some advice, because I am very worried right now... thank you...</p>