Admissions Withdrawal

<p>Hello! I am an international student and have enrolled in Grinnell College. I'm EXTREMELY excited for being a part of this AMAZING intuition!</p>

<p>However, I've a question that has been bothering since a few days. I'm taking IB this month. I was wondering, is there any possible way in which my offer can be withdrawn, as in, if my grades in IB is not as good as I was predicted. I had a very high predicted GPA , and am just worried if I'll be able to maintain it, since quite a few of my teachers have changed since term 1, and I've had to self study a lot. I don't think I'll drop massively, but what are the consequences if I do? </p>

<p>PS. I always worry too much :P</p>

<p>I’m an international student and I’m taking the IB exam this month too. The IB release the results in July, which is, in my opinion, too late for a school to decide whether they’ll withdraw your offer of admission. I don’t know about your school but my school’s second semester transcript will be the teacher’s predicted grade. As far as I know, colleges treat the last semester’s transcript as the final transcript and evaluate it to see whether they’ll withdraw admission from you. I don’t have to worry because my teachers will give me the same predicted scores as I have in mid-semester.
If your GPA drop a little bit, it doesn’t matter, so don’t worry. However, you should try to get a good IB scores to earn some college credits.
It’s the first year my school do the IB so things kind of all over the place. I have an attainment scores, which, in 11th grade, my teachers misunderstand it that with my current knowledge, how will I score in the IB instead of with my current pace of studying, how will I score in the exam. I also have a predicted scores but when my school send transcripts to colleges, they only send the attainment scores.
My IB attainment scores is 28, yes, 28. Luckily, I got a high SAT scores. Just to give you an idea, I got a 4 in Math HL but score 800 on the SAT I Math section and 780 on the Math Level II SAT subject test. I was rejected by so many colleges. Fortunately, Grinnell and Macalester accepted me (and meet my full-demonstrated need with some grants along the way). I think I set the record for the student with the lowest IB scores to be accepted at these 2 schools. Because my attainment scores are so low, I don’t have to worry about colleges withdrawing my offer of admission because I’m pretty sure that my real IB scores will be higher than the attainment scores.:slight_smile:
BTW, where’re you from? I’m from Vietnam. I’m just as excited as you to be a Grinnellian.
Good luck with your IB exam and see you at Grinnell.
P/S: Sorry if the information about my IB scores is not pertinent. I just felt the need to express my feelings.</p>

<p>Withdrawn admissions offers are pretty rare. You’d probably have to fail a class or get like a 2.0 GPA your last semester to get an admission withdrawn. As long as you’re still putting in the same effort as before, I doubt you need to worry about it.</p>

<p>But still try, students can be on academic probation when they enter and that is not a good thing to start with!</p>