<p>Do top notch schools offer conditional acceptance? What exactly do I have to do to be considered in the conditional acceptance pool?
Does a low gpa and low sat account for this?</p>
<p>I highly, highly doubt it’s used with any regularity at all. More of a rare exception to the system than part of the system. Maybe if you won the Intel contest and a few other great science contests, but had an 800 V+M SAT or something else just horrible, then <em>maybe</em> conditional? </p>
<p>I never even considered that as a possibility, to be honest. Have you heard of that happening often?</p>
<p>I’ve only ever heard of that happening at Loyola in Chicago. Not exactly a top school though…</p>
<p>Harvard said my acceptance is conditional until the results of the autopsy come back…</p>
<p>The UK schools offer “conditional” and “unconditional” acceptances. They do this because your school provides “expected” results for your final year exams, and these exam results come out in August. The UK schools will offer acceptance “conditional” on your meeting your “expected” results in the application made in the Fall.</p>
<p>All colleges offer conditional acceptances to an extent. Your acceptance is contingent on you maintaining your grades, though small drops are permissible.</p>
<p>Penn State University Park sometimes admits students on the condition that they start the summer session before. I believe that is mainly trying to make use of excess capacity.</p>
<p>Some colleges admit students on the condition they complete some remedial classes during the summer before regular college classes start. For example, that might be used for a talented student who attended a bad high school, and they are afraid he will fall behind without extra prep.</p>