Hello,
I was accepted at Vanderbilt University, and am somewhat concerned my offer may be rescinded. The grades are not terrible, but the thing is I was a 4.0 at time of application and have gone steadily downhill. There is minor senioritis at work, but the senior year classes are noticeably harder and the Valedictorian rarely has a 4.0 when all is said and done (this years ahs a 3.899, last year 3.933, etc.).
First Semester Senior (3.6 uw, 2 A’s, 1 A-, 3B+) Vanderbilt had no midyear so didnt see
Sec Sem Worst Case:
College Programming class: B-
College English Class: B+
Calc BC: B
AP Bio: B-
AP Government: A-
Elective: A
(this is a 3.14 uw)
Thoughts on rescind (or more realistically probation?)
You’d need to be doing pretty horribly to be rescinded. Think, multiple C’s and D’s. You have nothing to worry about.
Lighten up! when you get to Vandy you enter the Run Your Own Race zone. It is utterly useless to compare yourself to anyone there except to sometimes take off your hat in admiration, applaud a classmate’s talent or give someone a hug who got their ** kicked on a class exam.
You were not selected for your 4.0. As the Chancellor says on opening day and on closing graduation day: Who you are today is who we want here…
Be happy. I do advise that you examine Vandy’s foreign language specific requirements. Both of my sons signed up for the June SAT Subject exam in Spanish in order to place out of a semester. One son was too tired to take the Spanish subject exam in June after senior events but who cared…he switched to a new language at Duke he liked more…the other made a June SAT Spanish subject test score that was better than his AP of 3 and allowed him to use his language Vandy credits in a more imaginative way…he went to Denmark for a semester and took that language.
Be strategic. If you can --make 4s on your final AP exams. Buy the AP prep books.
Your high school GPA is soon to be a Moot topic.
Thank you all for the feedback. It sounds like I can feel reasonably confident, I was just worried they might have a stanford esque policy (0.5 GPA drop=probation, C=rescind considered, 2C’s = rescind).
Faline, don’t worry, the college classes come with credit and those who get B’s or better in my school’s AP classes invariably earn 5’s on the AP tests.
Thank you all again for the reassurance.
Make sure those credits are transferable before you plan your schedule. Vanderbilt usually requires the credits come from a university that offers a Bachelor’s degree in the area of study you took classes in, and also requires similar course structures.
Hello Pancaked.
They probably do not transfer, and if they do that would be quite shameful seeing as Vanderbilt standards are leagues ahead of AP and even somewhat ahead of the aforementioned decent but not great state school.
I have not yet looked into what transfers and what doesn’t; so thank you.
P.S. Back to original question, now that rescind and probation are off the table, will financial aid be affected by this? Also, for alumni, how easy is it to get work study at Vanderbilt
It will not affect your financial aid. Maintaining financial aid is just based on your college GPA.
Whether or not you qualify for work study is just based on your finances, so its hard to say. If you qualify, it’s easy to get a job. Of course, you can choose to work whether or not you you get federal work-study.
Thank you for your reply pancaked. I appreciate the moral support.
Update to this thread. If I were to get the grades above, except that the B- in Bio becomes a B+ and the Computer Programming became a solid C? The GPA stays the same, but does the addition of a C change the equation against me? (this may happen, Bio will be a B+/A-, English a B+/A-, Gov A-/A, Calc B/B+, and Coll Prog C/C+.)
Thank you
I’ll reiterate that you have nothing to worry about.
Okay thank you for that. To avoid further worrying, would it take an f in that class to cause rescind or probation?
I really couldn’t tell you exactly what it takes, but it takes grades much lower than yours.
You have nothing to worry about.
Thanks for the replies. It sounds like all I have to do is avoid a D and I’m in good shape. Is this correct?