<p>Someone please help! I've been accepted to UNC, gotten my financial aid, did all the normal stuff to prepare for college, and a month before I arrive, I get a letter that they aren't pleased with my senior grades, and that I have to send an appeal letter to explain this, and there's a possibility of them revoking my admission.</p>
<p>My grades were:
AP Bio - B
BC Calc - A
Honors Physics - B
AP English 4 - C+
Econ Hon - C-
AP Govt - D
Psych 101 - B</p>
<p>I didn't slack off! We have a horrible government teacher and the majority of students in that class had a C and below, and econ was just as bad, with the smartest people ending up with a C, I can't really explain English, except that I'm not that great of a writer. Senior year was so hard for me, most students didn't have all of their 8 blocks filled, and I was constantly told that I was taking a rigorous courseload. I tried to explain that I was working as hard as I could in each and every class, but trying to bring up my government grade, brought down all my others, but I still mastered the course's material with my AP scores of 5's in Bio and Calc, and a 4 in Literature, but the 2 in Government.</p>
<p>What are my chances of being revoked? Has this happened to anyone else before? I'm out-of-state, a minority, and this has seriously crushed me, especially having all this hope of going to the school of my dreams (getting financial aid, all my health records, paying deposits, getting my housing assignment, going to orientation) and then being revoked because of my stupid teachers :(</p>
<p>ANY help at all would be GREATLY appreciated.-</p>
<p>Whatever you do, make sure that you do NOT make it appear as if you are deflecting blame onto your teacher (even if that was the case). That would be asking for disaster.</p>
<p>I agree with the two previous posters. Regardless of who is to blame, it would be far better for you to beg forgiveness at this time-blame it on a lack of maturity that caused you to over schedule yourself within the time constraints of senior year…but accept the blame and promise it will not happen again.</p>
<p>You may get a reprieve and be conditionally admitted meaning that they will be watching your progress so don’t blow it a second time…stay focused and work very hard. Do your best to avoid the distractions and new found freedom…look at college as a full time job…you go to work every day…x number of hours of class time and x number of hours of study time…every day. Stay caught up on your work and your reading. Time management and focus will be a very critical part of your future success or failure.</p>
<p>The first two semesters of college are SO important because it is really hard to play catch up and always be working to bring your grades up after faltering in the beginning.</p>
<p>I totally agree with not blaming it on the teachers. I didn’t mean to sound as immature as I did in my first post. Because I’m out of state, and my dad is paying 20,000 a year, I expect to work as hard as I can to make sure he’s not wasting any of that money.</p>
<p>In the letter, I made sure to say that I can’t blame anyone but myself, but I do feel like that rigorous courseload did help me to learn and prepare myself for the college life. I will not disappoint them by working hard in each and every class, the bad grades won’t happen again and etc, etc. And I said that this really wasn’t a case of slacking off.</p>
<p>I’m really scared because I promise I didn’t get those bad grades by being lazy, I worked my butt off, studying for government everyday, but I just honestly could not understand her hard tests (all questions were derived from AP exams), and Econ kept seeming like common sense, and I studied for those, but I seriously could not pass the tests, and studying so hard for those tests, made me do worse in my other classes. I just don’t want to have worked so hard for nothing…</p>
<p>It sounds like you responded the correct way.</p>
<p>However, for the future, you need to learn/understand that sometimes it’s far more important to work (and study) smartly than it is to just work hard.</p>
<p>Don’t be afraid (or embarrassed) to seek help right away when you don’t understand something. Many classes are cumulative and if you don’t get the foundation you’re in trouble. Seek out help from the professor or from tutors…even from classmates…just don’t let yourself get so absorbed trying to figure out what’s going on in one class that you don’t give the others adequate time. The pace in college is much faster…you do in a semester meeting two or three times a week what you did in a whole year in high school meeting five times a week. Don’t let yourself get behind in any class…it could be disastrous for you.</p>
<p>I hope things wok out well for you; please keep us posted.</p>
<p>Wow, thank you so much for that information. I definitely could have tried to get my teacher’s help, instead of struggling on my own. I think she just had such a different style of teaching, she never has notes, and just talks about random subjects. I did try to get out of the government class, but it was too late and it would have messed up my econ grade, since they are complementary and share a block.</p>
<p>I will keep you guys posted, i’m supposed to receive a response on tuesday, and this is probably the longest days of my life. I have yet to tell my dad, since he was so proud of me getting in, and has mentioned it to all his coworkers and friends w/ the “proud father” feeling, so we’ll see, praying and crossing fingers.</p>
<p>You’re fine bluebox. Yes, they were lower than I expected, I’ve never had a D on my report card on my life, and in all my years of school, I’ve only had 2 C’s, but I really don’t think some people understand how much work I put into each class. I was just doing way too much, trying to tackle a job (which I end up quitting because they wouldn’t put me on a flexible schedule), learn piano songs to be the Minister of Music at my church, stay in various clubs, such as Interact Club, and be enrolled in those 4 AP classes, and a university class.</p>
<p>I guess you could say that in my previous years, I didn’t have to stay on top of my work to get an A in an class, and then this whirlwind of work came, so I just wasn’t prepared. So, yeah, my grades are much lower than I and obviously UNC expected.</p>
<p>And of course VAMom, that’s what I’m hoping they’re going to do, being kept under a watchful eye, will be better than not going, so I’m up for anything. I’ll keep you guys posted.</p>
<p>hey, I got the same letter, and my final grades were</p>
<p>ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH IV B
ADVANCED PLACEMENT PHYSICS C B
ADVANCED PLACEMENT STATISTICS C
HONORS ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY B
AP CALCULUS BC D
AP EUROPEAN HISTORY C
AP PSYCHOLOGY A</p>
<p>I actually missed a lot of school junior year for medical reasons but got tired of always being with various doctors so i tried to go to school more last year, which brought my grades down. That is what I said in my letter too and they asked me to meet them… any input?</p>
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