Did That College Pull the Plug? (Rescinded-Admission Stories--your own and those you've heard)

Applying to College
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“When Do Colleges Rescind Acceptances?” is an “Ask the Dean” discussion that has rocked on for more than two years (see http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/ask-dean-topics/903319-when-do-colleges-rescind-acceptances-p1.html ).

Most of the posts on this thread come from nervous students (and occasionally parents) who fear that an affirmative decision will be reversed. However, as often as we read about these concerns, we rarely learned what eventually happened. Did Harvard revoke that acceptance after a C in a Georgia Tech dual-enrollment class? What did UC Merced do about a D in senior calculus?

So this new thread is about OUTCOMES, and here are some questions:

**-Did you (or a child, friend, classmate) have a college acceptance withdrawn?

-If so, why? (Grades? Disciplinary action? Failure to complete prerequisites? etc.?)

-If the acceptance wasn’t revoked outright, did the college require probation, a gap year, or impose any other type of punishment for post-acceptance/pre-enrollment misdeeds?

-How about warning letters? Did anyone receive them and why? Were they merely threats or did they require action (e.g., taking a summer class or going on probation in the fall)?**

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It would also help if the conditions of admission from the college were listed, particularly when there was rescission for low senior year grades. It appears that many colleges vaguely say that they expect the student to maintain academic performance in in-progress senior year courses, but do not specify a threshold GPA. In the absence of a D or F grade, students get worried about getting a 3.4 in senior year courses after previously getting a 3.9, etc…

One of the OP example schools, UC Merced, is actually one of the more explicit ones, saying that students admitted for fall 2015 need to complete in-progress courses with C or higher grades: http://admissions.ucmerced.edu/sites/admissions.ucmerced.edu/files/page/documents/newfr_15_conditions_of_admission_-_final.pdf

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There are quite a few got rescinded from one of the UC due to missing transcripts. Also, at UMich CoE information session, they said there are around 50 students rescinded each year due to senioritis or discipline record. Not sure if that is for CoE alone or the whole UMich though.

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There’s [this guy…](St. Paul’s Student Takes the Stand, Denying Rape - The New York Times)

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Lol