<p>Or second semester midterms? Or just require you to maintain an average of x %?</p>
<p>They look at your marks and may rescind admission for bad grades or for grades much below what you’d gotten in the past. Colleges acceptances always are conditional and based on receipt of acceptable second semester grades and lack of legal problems, suspensions, etc. since one has applied.</p>
<p>I know that but I’m wondering if they look at second semester midterms before making admission decisions?</p>
<p>Not usually. It depends when you apply, if you apply really late they may see them before they make a decision. They can always rescind because of them or other things, though that’s fairly rare, I think.</p>
<p>The latest grades they have are first semester, senior year, grades for regular decision applications. For rolling admission, they don’t even have that. If you are borderline at a school with rolling admissions, a school may request mid-year grades.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks everyone. I’ll be applying everywhere RD so I guess I don’t have to worry. And for the record, I don’t want to know this so that I can slack off second semester, it just makes things a little less stressful.</p>
<p>I understand.</p>
<p>I appreciate that.</p>
<p>In your letter of ‘provisional acceptance’, it will state that you are expected to maintain your academic record. You won’t have a problem if you drop to a couple of B’s. If you drop any one grade to a D, or have an overall trend (even A’s to B’s) you may have your acceptance revoked, or be admitted under academic suspension.</p>