<p>I'll just be straightforward: if I get C's in AP Government and AP French this semester, will my admission be rescinded? I have A's and B's in all of my other classes, including two more APs. I was admitted with three C's on my transcript already. Thank you for your help.</p>
<p>I have never heard of anyone being rescinded from any college in the country for getting As, Bs, and Cs. Getting rescinded almost always happens when you start failing classes or your GPA falls to an unacceptably low number.</p>
<p>Thank you! I worked it out, and my unweighted GPA for this semester alone will be a 3.2, and my weighted GPA will be a 3.66. Obviously not stellar…I had a really bad semester for reasons unrelated to school, but I’m sure that doesn’t really matter, haha. I’m really worried though! -____________________-</p>
<p>Those are actually pretty good grades. Have you checked the common data set for Tulane yet? That should help you compare yourself to the average of accepted students. From what I remember of years past, you should be well within the accepted range. Good luck at Tulane next year!</p>
<p>I honestly am not sure where students get the idea their admission will be rescinded for making a bad grade or two, even a D and in many cases even an F. As long as it doesn’t mean prevent you from graduating (and you don’t get convicted for major felonies), it would be EXTEMELY unusual for a university to rescind your admission.</p>
<p>My mother had a minor meltdown upon discovering my grades and sent me into a panic spiral. I e-mailed the admission office, and I was told that I should be fine, as long as I don’t fail any courses. So just as an FYI for anybody else who worries like I do. Thanks for your help.</p>
<p>FC: your post should be stickied for every graduating senior during 2nd semester…</p>
<p>FC,</p>
<p>Not sure about Tulane, but most of the highly selective colleges I visited with D1 communicated the expectation that high academic performance would continue through the Sr year and they reserved the right to rescind the acceptance etc. I can see where they get the idea…</p>
<p>I doubt this happens very often in practice. HS counselors and administrators probably strongly encourage the warning but would not be happy dealing with all of the fallout when it happened. </p>
<p>RachelMK glad that you set your and your mother’s mind at ease. Best wishes to you on your career at Tulane. My daughter was very happy there her freshman year…</p>
<p>Parent9 - yes I agree that they probably do go overboard scaring the kids and trying to fend off severe cases of senioritis. The only time I have heard of an admission being rescinded is when the kids actually didn’t graduate (and even then I know many schools, even the best ones, offer to let them in the following year), they get in serious trouble with the law, especially for drug dealing, and/or they find out the kid seriously lied on the application, although this last is rare of course. Fortunately the vast majority of really good students cannot help themselves and keep studying hard even when they have their college admission in the bag, dire threats or not.</p>
<p>I either heard an admission officer say it, or I read it on here, but someone asked them if their grades slipping final semester would cause their acceptance to be rescinded. </p>
<p>The answer was, “No, that won’t make us rescind your admission. Do you want to know what will? Showing up for orientation weekend, trashing your dorm room, and then getting so drunk you wind up in the emergency room at 3am–that’s what gets your admission rescinded.”</p>
<p>I would have loved to hear the whole story.</p>
<p>Oh wow. That’s…quite a story, haha. Certainly something I’m not anticipating happening to me, unless I’m replaced by a pod person sometime between now and next week.</p>
<p>Also: the only reason I was as worried as I was was because in California (where I live), the public universities are fairly strict on their GPA minimum (3.0 weighted, which isn’t that bad, but still), and I actually do know several people who have had their admission rescinded for letting their grades drop and ended up having to go to community college. I’m the only person in my family who won’t be attending a UC, so I didn’t know if a private school would be stricter, more lenient, or something else entirely, because the phrase “we expect you to maintain your grades” is both ominous and vague to me! So excuse my ignorance, haha.</p>
<p>Each year the University of Washington rescinds admission offers to students who receive too many Cs senior year. The University of Chicago on the other hand claims they admit who they want and seldom make mistakes, so one would have to do great evil to have an admission offer rescinded there. The lesson, each school is different. I tend, however, to agree in principle with FC, while it is possible it is quite rare.</p>
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<p>How would the college find out about the felony, especially if it happened during the summer after you graduated from high school?</p>
<p>Don’t most application forms have a line somewhere that says they’ll (the applicant will) report any changes like a legal problem, etc to the school? Of course being arrested vs being convicted is a whold different thing, and doubt a conviction would happen that fast</p>
<p>Yeah, I was rather joking actually. I would hope a tangle with the law that serious would be exceedingly rare. But to be serious for a minute, in this day and age it is all too easy for someone to find out about these things and therefore while rescission might not be so much the issue (due to timing as jym says) getting expelled later would be a definite possibility.</p>
<p>I think there were some Tulane kids (one kid maybe? Can’t remember the details) in Connecticut that got caught importing fake drivers licenses and that hit the news and if you have your Google search set to “Tulane”, as I am sure many at Tulane do, it pops right up in the news reports. So for a serious, even alleged** criminal act I could see the news report saying “Ms. Bouchatrarious, who is scheduled to start college at Tulane University in New Orleans this fall…”. Hard to hide these things these days.</p>
<p>Quote: “the only reason I was as worried as I was was because in California (where I live), the public universities are fairly strict on their GPA minimum (3.0 weighted, which isn’t that bad, but still)”</p>
<p>Actually, the conditions of admission for all UCs specify GPA no lower than 3.0 UNWEIGHTED. Also, no grade lower than a C.</p>
<p>Just wanted to clarify. They may be the strictest in the country when it comes to post-application grades. Yes, I absolutely know they stick with this, unlike many private schools.
The University of California also makes the applicant click/sign that they understand this conditional acceptance when they apply, and then again when they complete the SIR.</p>
<p>Glad you can reassure your parents, rachelmk.</p>
<p>Oops! Sorry about the UC misinformation. Obviously I’m not going there, and neither of my siblings ever came near getting their admission rescinded in their second semester, so it’s a moot point. Regardless: I had unrealistic expectations–I ended up getting a B in one of the classes that I thought I was going to get a C in, so I would have been fine anyway. Hopefully this post was helpful to somebody who was stressing like me. (:</p>