<p>A state university I know of has sent out a letter, stating basically that they will honor their acceptance, but because of the drastic drop in your performance during the second half of senior year, that they have little confidence that you will survive at their school.</p>
<p>Maybe trying some scare tactics, perhaps?</p>
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<p>I know of a few guys who had tried to steal a test. One had gotten into Berkeley and had his admission rescinded; the others had gotten into a few other UCs and ended up going to CC (pretty sure their admissions were rescinded, too).</p>
<p>I dont see why someone would risk that after being accepted to berkelely.</p>
<p>People are stupid? People pull all kinds of tasteless things to get <em>into</em> colleges. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd be stupid enough to get caught doing something to get their acceptance taken away.</p>
<p>If you're slippery and powerful you can get away with all these things, except killing someone of course...and even then! I seriously don't understand though, why you'd cheat after you got in to college, take the C or D...I mean you got in for God sakes, calm down lol.</p>
<p>In high school, I was a junior and a senior I knew was rescinded for making a video with his friends about how they cheated for years. Yeah, everybody was soo surprised, my jaw literally dropped. Administration found out, sent it to the schools they applied to. And I think of the entire group of 5, the one guyy was rescinded. Scary. He shoulda failed with dignity like the rest of us during all those AP tests! lol.</p>
<p>It's just utterly preposterous how some students who end up getting accepted into very prestigious colleges somehow decide to "play around a bit," ultimately getting rescinded. </p>
<p>What about getting that acceptance letter, celebrating with your friends and family, keeping on your good study habits, and graduating with a big smile? Can't get any harder.</p>
<p>in high school the admissions office posted a rescinding letter from princeton citing a significant drop in grades. don't know how bad, though i'm assuming Ds.</p>
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<p>Now that is what I call "sad".</p>
<p>My son's acceptance packet from the University of Washington had a page warning that several students who had been admitted to the previous class were booted--including one who was already enrolled in classes--when it came to light that they received low grades or did not complete classes in spring of 12th grade that were shown on their fall applications. Advisement was given to not slack off just because admission had been granted.</p>
<p>QUOTE :::In high school, I was a junior and a senior I knew was rescinded for making a video with his friends about how they cheated for years. Yeah, everybody was soo surprised, my jaw literally dropped. Administration found out, sent it to the schools they applied to. And I think of the entire group of 5, the one guyy was rescinded. Scary. He shoulda failed with dignity like the rest of us during all those AP tests! lol.:::: QUOTE</p>
<p>I doubt an administration of a school would ever do such a thing. I can believe it if a competing student tried doing that though.</p>
<p>The UNC story is true and was all over local papers. A young man from a nearby town with outstanding grades and a 1500 SAT had enough credits to graduate HS after fall of his senior year and decided to blow of the spring semester with two F's, a D and the rest C's or higher. The boy's father took UNC to court. The court upheld UNC's decision.</p>
<p>There was the public case of Blair Hornstine (do a Google search) a few years back who had her place at Harvard revoked after it was discovered she had been passing off other's work as her own in some articles she wrote for a local paper.</p>
<p>Isn't there this local legend of how a kid from Korea got accepted at Cornell but ditched school and got rescinded? Then the Korean parents started to spread this to their seniors ;)</p>
<p>Someone from my high school got rescinded from Cornell cause they were caught plagiarizing....this kid was really smart though...</p>
<p>Here's an article from the Seattle Times from, IIRC, Dec. 2006. It's about UW rescinding offers and why.</p>
<p>The</a> Seattle Times: Local News: UW revokes admission offers in severe cases of "senioritis"</p>
<p>We have a family friend whose son was accepted ED to the College of William and Mary and decided that he was done with high school. He got a warning letter after his first semester grades were sent to the college but he either ignored it or it was too little, too late. He got the "Thanks but no Thanks" letter two days after his high school graduation. My kids were about 3 years behind this kid and believe me, they heard that story A LOT during their senior year in high school!</p>
<p>Plagiarism is really sad. I felt terrible when my teacher dunned me for it. I felt so shamed that I remember it more than 40 years later. It was 10-page paper on Puerto Rico, for a geography module, in a "gifted" 6th grade class. The problem was, nobody taught me how to cite sources, which was such an easy thing with proper instruction, including having kids read citation-based literature to have a writing model, which I never saw.</p>
<p>Every textbook in geography and history that schools use represent plagiarism: fact after fact is presented without the authors, who read other people's works to acquire their own knowledge, crediting their sources. </p>
<p>I just mention this, because, isn't it ironic that our education system spends millions of dollars a year presenting plagiarized material to students, and then teachers dun the students for replicating the textbook modus?</p>
<p>A take-home lesson: when we home-educated, I gave my kids books that had footnotes, endnotes, and bibliographies, so that they implicitly absorbed the rules of scholarly writing by continuous exposure to it. This made it straightforward to teach them citation-based writing. </p>
<p>It's a tragic loss for our nation that Google's attempt to create an online repository of books owned by magnificent libraries, such as Stanford, University of Michigan and the New York Public Library has been foiled by the greedy publishing industry. If a student lives in the New York City area, he or she can access one of the world's greatest troves of published knowledge, for free. Even more so for D.C.-area students who can go to the Library of Congress. Many large-city public libraries have good resources. But, what about the great majority of communities whose school and public libraries are woefully understocked? These students, of every race, are subjected to the "tyranny of [publisher-complicit] low expectations". Limiting knowledge-access is wrongheaded for a nation that wants to thrive in "The Age of Knowledge".</p>
<p>Executive- My school has been high ranking nationally in the Academic Decathlon and Champion as well. Administration WOULD do that. There was a lot of pressure and competition, I suposse.</p>