I desperately need help since I am not in a good stand at the moment. I just got cancelled my application for the following reasons:
Your admission to UCSD for the Fall 2015 quarter was subject to meeting specific academic provisions. As a result of your failure to complete the academic requirements stated below, we must unfortunately withdraw your offer of admission to the University of California, San Diego. A review of your final records has revealed that the following condition(s) applied:
Overall grade point is lower than 3.00.
There were grade discrepancies between your original application and the official transcripts received. Misrepresentation.
Now, the classes that dropped my GPA are theater classes, which are not related to my major: Ethnic Studies. Indeed I was doing C or better prior the final test, I could not take the finals for an emergency.
The misrepresentation might be an appeal in an incomplete and/or a D credit.
Can some of you very knowledge people help me to strengthen my appeal letter? Have you heard of something similar?
“There were grade discrepancies between your original application and the official transcripts received. Misrepresentation.”
It sounds to me like what the college is saying is that your reported GPA at the time of application and/or courseload didn’t match your high-school transcript. They are, in essence, accusing you of lying.
I’d suggest you triple-check your application-especially the section where you list courses, senior year courseload, and your GPA-to make sure it matches your high-school transcript as it was when you applied. If there was an unforeseen change to your transcript (dropped a class, grade revised, etc) contact your guidance counselor immediately and ask him/her to call the university and explain.
I’d also suggest you call the university and ask them for the exact reason you got this letter-I could be misreading that sentence.
As for the GPA below 3, I don’t know the details of your situation, but that could well be a more intractable issue. I hope that isn’t the case. Best of luck.
Not sure but you could retake them in the summer from CC. Also if you have lots of APs you can do one year at CC and transfer. There are threads like that from the UC forums. Best to call and talk to UCSD to clarify things.
I don’t think you seriously considered the impact of your A-G requirements.
The (f) category of visual and performing arts is crucial for admission and usually trips up a lot of OOS students. http://www.ucop.edu/agguide/a-g-requirements/f-visual-performing-arts/index.html
If you didn’t get a decent grade in this “theater” elective, then they can withdraw their admission at anytime. If you omitted it in your calculation, “because it didn’t apply to your major” then they could consider that as being deceitful.
You can’t claim, "I didn’t know about this requirement " because every counselor and scrap of information mentions the entrance requirements from the A-G list. The UCs are adamant about including it everywhere and if you “didn’t know”, then they can ask, “Why wouldn’t someone, who wants to attend our elite universities, read that crucial, basic piece of information?”
It doesn’t matter what your major is because if you can’t get in, your major is a moot point. Then math kids would only take high school math classes, and English majors would only take English HS classes. They want kids exposed to all of the disciplines.
As for an appeal, you need to find out why they think you didn’t meet their criteria. Then address that when you find out. I would also sign up for the CCs before they run out of classes.
Several CCers have reported their acceptance being rescinded for UCSD on multiple threads. So I would try to appeal but don’t expect anything.
What is an unfair credit report? I’m not sure they care.
If you appeal, I would have someone carefully proofread your letter of appeal. In virtually every single one of your posts, your grammar is either poor or completely incorrect. This will not reflect well on you if your appeal letter contains similar mistakes. Good luck with everything.
Wish there are more people like you in the internet. I did appeal. Feel good humbly-confident about it. Thanks for your constructive critique. Cross your fingers!
If your GPA is now slightly below a 3.0 than it seems likely that it wasn’t very much above a 3.0 when you submitted your application. That would be considered a fairly low GPA for admission to UCSD. Is it possible that you listed your classes and grades incorrectly on your application and UCSD rescinded their offer when they received your final transcript that showed the correct grades?