<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 I was wondering, is there any possible way in which my offer can be withdrawn, as in, if my grades in IB is not as good as I was predicted.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.
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>