<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>I should be heading to Purdue West Lafayette this summer to study in their First Year Engineering program, but I happened to get my results today. While I did get my diploma, my results were not spectacular and are as follows:</p>
<p>Math SL: 6
Spanish AB Initio: 6
Business & Management HL: 5
Computer Science HL: 5
English SL: 5
Physics HL: 3
+1 EE/TOK bonus point
Total = 31</p>
<p>What I'm concerned about is the fact that I got a 3/7 in Physics HL. Would this warrant my admission being revoked? Should I be worried?</p>
<p>Thank you guys in advance for any helpful replies.</p>
<p>Just to clarify, I did the IB diploma.</p>
<p>Cheers! :)</p>
<p>I would recommend you contact the school to ask them. I would think that since you received your IB diploma they will not rescind you but they may have you take a remediation class or place you on academic watch to start.</p>
<p>That’s what I thought. As it is, I was going to waive my Physics credits and start it from scratch, which isn’t an option anymore, but still. :P</p>
<p>@aspiretosucceed - Revoking an admission is very rare and I don’t think you even come close. It’s one course. You graduated. At worst, IMO, you will get a letter from them reminding you that college is hard work, you have to be disciplined, so on and so forth. Maybe not even that. I wouldn’t worry. I see about a dozen of these every year and no one has received a revocation yet. About half get the letter I mention.</p>
<p>Really? That’s amazing. I was so scared!</p>
<p>@aspiretosucceed - Well, you have to understand that colleges have pretty much set their class at this point. Plus they really are heavily biased towards wanting you to be there. After all they did accept you. Plus they are not heartless. They are very aware that your options would be very limited at this stage. So the offense has to be pretty bad (not even graduating, arrested for armed robbery, something along those lines) for them to be pushed into rescinding an admission.</p>
<p>Fair enough. I’m looking forward to attending Purdue this fall! =D</p>
<p>Thank you all for your valuable inputs. It means a lot to me! :)</p>
<p>I would still contact the school. According to a site I found a 3 for IB is considered a D. That can be a real issue at UCs if it’s in the A-G requirements.</p>
<p>In regards to @"Erin’s Dad" that only really matters if your school does not report letter grades -eg if your final senior year grades are [determined by] your IB grades. Otherwise IB scores are treated like AP tests. Failing/doing poorly on one means nothing except for losing the credit you might have gotten for the exam. </p>
<p>@saif235, so someone can totally fail their senior year under an IB program and still get into college? That doesn’t make sense. Nor does failing an AP course have no ramifications.</p>
<p>I’m not going to a UC so that rule shouldn’t apply. I did write to the admissions office asking if there would be a problem with that particular grade. I also mentioned that I happened to be ill and on medication during that day and felt that I wasn’t able to demonstrate my abilities to the fullest.</p>
<p>@aspiretosucceed - Let us know if you get a response and if so, what they say. Personally I would have taken the wait and see approach, as opposed to what my good friend Erin’s Dad suggested and what you did. But there is no “how to” book on this, it’s a very close judgement call. I don’t think you did the wrong thing by any means. Like I said, I just don’t think it is an issue for Purdue so what you did shouldn’t hurt, either.</p>
<p>IB scores are like AP scores. You can get A in an AP course and still get 1 on your AP exam. US colleges treat IB scores like AP scores, mostly for getting college credit. It is not the case for UK unis, because their acceptance is contingent on student getting minimum IB scores. I wouldn’t bother to contact the school. </p>
<p>But in my case, I did the IB Diploma as my high school course. I didn’t do it along with a regular high school diploma. I did it AS my only high school course. Does this change my predicament?</p>
<p>Also, I just want to make sure you guys know, I got my IB diploma, no problem. I just want to know if getting a 3 affects my situation.</p>
<p>@aspiretosucceed - IMO, there is a 99.9% chance that it makes zero difference to Purdue. I think you create more of a chance that by you even making them think that it is significant, they will pay more attention to it than they would have otherwise. Having said that, I still highly doubt that it will matter. You obviously didn’t need the course to graduate. And I am guessing by what you are saying that it doesn’t even affect your GPA? That I am not so clear on.</p>
<p>^^ I agree. Curious, however: does your school transcript submitted to colleges show letter grades? If so, that is the only thing the colleges care about. They will not care a whit whether you even took the IB exams themselves and what you received in them. Oxford and Cambridge care about IB exams because they let you in based on “predicted” IB scores (as they do, similarly, for “predicted” AP scores). If you don’t achieve the predicted score, they will rescind you. US universities care about letter grades and your current (not predicted) transcripts.</p>