<p>Greetings:</p>
<p>There is much chatter on this site about admission and/or scholarships being rescinded, but I am wondering how often this actually happens, and under what circumstances. I can understand admission or money being rescinded if a high school senior's grades plummet, or if something really drastic happens, such as failing to graduate from high school, being convicted of a violent crime, etc. However, it seems that stories of offers being rescinded for, say unattractive Facebook postings and the like are pretty much urban myths, from what I can tell.</p>
<p>I'd be interested in hearing reality-based experiences of offers being rescinded, the reasons for such, and how the student handled this - did s/he simply go to another college on his/her list, or what? It seems to me that if someone has done something egregious enough to have an offer of admission or aid rescinded, it might be hard to just enroll at the next school that accepted you.</p>
<p>Looking forward to hearing responses -</p>
<p>I only know a few kids who have had admissions actually rescinded, and that occurred due to academic failure. One kid did not make graduation requirements.</p>
<p>I HAVE known personally of cases where kids have had to delay attendance for a semester or even a year due to some stupidity. Brown and Princeton have done this. I know a young man whose admissions was not rescinded but he had to fulfill some requirements for doing some cyber harassment. I have no idea how bad the harassment was or in what form.</p>
<p>It’s hard to get info on this sort of thing because those involved don’t discuss these things openly. I know kids who have gone on to Kenyon, Northeastern, Boston College, VMI after getting into trouble. Drugs, expulsion from school were what happened, and the colleges went on. I know the colleges were notified.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. Do you have any experience with students having scholarships rescinded?</p>
<p>Slightly off topic - students can also lose their eligibility for federal aid if they are convicted of drug possession or sale. The amount of time they would be ineligible varies by type of crime (i.e. sale vs. possession, number of previous convictions)</p>
<p>While not exactly what you asked, I’d imagine that there are probably some kids who get caught with drugs in high school who then have to put college on hold until they can get their funding restored.</p>
<p>I have not. But that isn’t the sort of thing that makes the braggin’ rounds. You can’t hide the fact that your kid is or isn’t going off to college after getting into trouble that everyone knows about, but the details on other losses are not usually made public.</p>
<p>And Megmno is absolutely right about losing federal aid with drug convictions. You can can be a murderer, thief, rapist, assault people badly and still get federal aid, but get caught will illegal drugs and you can be done in that area.</p>
<p>I know of a student that had an athletic scholarship and was arrested for marijuana use and lost the scholarship.</p>
<p>TRying to figure out how a student at our local HS was arrested on campus with pot and a narcotic for sale (quantity high enough to be considered a dealer), and is still accepted and attending Stanford this year??? Expelled from HS 2 months ago and apparently on house arrest…Good lawyer???</p>
<p>Maybe not disclosed to the college?</p>
<p>Maybe not c0nvicted, or the charge was plea bargained to something non drug related. A lot of courts will do that if a kid in college or contemplating college because they are reluctant to cut off the federal loan funds, especially for someone without a record, or a not so bad record. It takes a long time for charges to be processed and be made accessible. Not unusual for it to be a year. </p>
<p>I don’t know if FAFSA does a check on every single applicant or takes ones word and only does random checks on some kids. I know it serves as a clearinghouse for certain things like prior federal aid, selective service, and citizenship, but I don’t know if it is linked into a criminal data base.</p>