<p>We know of a boy who was rescinded for sneaking into a girl's room on the June graduation trip. Don't know the details of what happened in the room, but headmaster wrote a letter to the college about the incident and the college took action. I don't recall the college, but I believe it was HPY.</p>
<p>would they rescind anyone early decision? after they've withdrawn all other apps...i doubt it, only under extreme circumstances.</p>
<p>not true... and1swish90... there was something in our local paper about 3 people being rescinded from ED schools after the RD deadline. (progress reports don't go out until the end of january for most schools). I guess these kids must have to rush out some apps to the higher-end schools that still take applications like UMich (rolling).</p>
<p>I know a bunch of kids who got offers rescinded for getting caught with pot and alcohol on a school trip. Some lost scholarships. Some had to take a year off and some were just rejected. Schools included Harvard, Northwestern among others.</p>
<p>Dntw8up saidÂ
I know someone who had his admission to UNC Chapel Hill rescinded.
then
He went from As and Bs to Cs and Ds. </p>
<p>Is this the same UNC spoken about by hornet who saidÂ</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.==</p>
<p>Fs present vs worst case of Cs and Ds is a huge difference. The former is what was mentioned in the Âplagiarize, flunk, or kill post.</p>
<p>ArenÂt there clear conditions of rescission noted on the collegeÂs acceptance letter?</p>
<p>This definitely happens. It will not happen if you go from As to Bs. It will probably not happen if you go to a mix of Bs and Cs. But anything else and you will probably get a warning or will start college on academic probation. I know of applicants who have gotten rescinded for multiple Ds (and no Fs). So panic about grades and maintaining straight As or whatever? No. Continue to actually go to class and do MOST of your work? I would recommend it.</p>
<p>Yes, D has a friend who did early decision to Oberlin. The applicant was rescinded to RD because of three F's on semester exams (even though the semester course grade was a B in each of the courses). Fortunately this kid had not yet pulled all of the applications from other schools. The sad thing is, the GC sent the report card which had the exam scores instead of an updated transcript (that only had the semester grades).</p>
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Arenât there clear conditions of rescission noted on the collegeâs acceptance letter?
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Generally, no. The letter just says that the student must complete the year "at the same level" (or similar wording) of accomplishment as previously, and must graduate. What "the same level" means is up for debate, and that's why there's all this consternation.</p>
<p>There wer two students in my school who got into the ivies. They cheated during the SAT but the person who was watching us didn't see. We the students were upset but didn't say anything. One of them got caught cheating on a physic exam. The teacher didn't turn him over otherwise he wouldn't go to his current school. I will never denounce them but I wonder about how it will feel if they get quick out. They cheat in almost all the classes I had with them. The abd thing is that they are jaleous of students who do better than them and they look down at those who didn't get into "prestigious" school. I didn't give a danm about them because they will pay it later but some of my classmates were frustrated because the cheaters were getting credits for what they didn't work for nor deserve.</p>
<p>I know a friend who got his acceptance letter rescinded from UC Berkeley since one of his grades in a class dropped to a D. In response to kcl, the kids who cheated to get into those schools won't get very far. Getting caught cheating in college is a lot worse and if they do decide to bite the bullet and study, they'll be lacking the willpower and integrity to go through with it.</p>
<p>I just got an email from an assistant admissions director at Yale stating that he was "going through some mid-year reports recently [he] noticed the drop in your grades first semester" and that "[he] just wanted to convey [his] hope that they represent only a temporary slip, and that *'ll bring those subjects back up to [my] usual strong performance by the end of the year." So yeah, I'm stressed. But it wasn't an excessively big drop as others have mentioned here, just something I'm personally not used to.</p>
<p>I'm a straight-A student and, barring this year's first semester, never received a B in any class. Both my AP French and AP Physics grades were 85 but I still got this email. It was courteous and all, but still sent my blood pressure and heart rate up through the roof as I read it.</p>
<p>Any advice or thoughts?</p>
<p>A girl at my high school. Had a full ride to a Wisconsin state school, turned it down for UCSD. Got an F, got rescinded. It happened to another guy at our school that same year, from UC Davis.</p>
<p>Cheating is a product of the education-system's corrupt sorting-machine function. Getting As is made to be students' objective, in order for them to be placed in the college-track group, then the selective-college potential-recruit pool, then the highly-selective-universities' applicant group, and ultimately the chosen group to attend highly selective universities.</p>
<p>Think about this: some private schools issue descriptive narratives of students. This encourages students to be engaged in their classes. A few schools, such as Exeter have roundtable-discussion formats. Students must read material before class in order to participate intelligently in discussions. </p>
<p>In these circumstances it is obvious who isn't studying. </p>
<p>It should, at the same time, be obvious in conventional classrooms, at least in AP courses that have discussions, and laboratory exercises in science courses, who is coming to class unprepared. There should be a red light flashing in teachers' minds when students who didn't demonstrate very much knowledge all through the year earn top-of-the-class test scores. </p>
<p>Teachers may chalk it up to excellent cramming abilities. There is no question that multiple-choice tests promote cramming. You can gain sight-recognition ability by cramming. (Oh, yeah, I remember seeing this.) You can't cram for expository exams, because the brain must digest and organize information in order to coherently express it, and this takes a lot of time and effort. </p>
<p>It's extremely difficult to cheat, by sharing or stealing answers, on essay tests. The source of multiple-choice answers, or one-word fill-ins, or single-sentence answers can be ambiguous. But nearly-identical essay answers for two or more close-proximity students would have only one explanation: there is no ambiguity.</p>
<p>Test cheating is an efficiency stratagem that parallels the mass-education testing-efficiency stratagem, in which teachers who have over 100 students lack the time to evaluate students' understanding of the material by reading students essay answers, so the teachers reduce their own work efforts by giving multiple-choice, one-word answer, and single-sentence test questions, which applied with a teacher's answer key, streamlines the teachers' grading job. </p>
<p>Most students adopt crammingâwhy study every night expending energy, when a short burst of last-minute study will be adequate? Cheating is considered crossing the line in effort reduction, but the systemâoften including giving teachers test-generator CDs that they insert into the office PC, and voila! the printer spits out the testsâ is designed to produce effort-minimization all around. In schools that formally condemn cheating but informally reward it, for example because the teachers are not walking the aisles continuously to monitor students, you can see why the effort-minimization ethos is corrupt because it gives the same grades to diligent students who learn the subject matter, and to those who are ignorant in the subject matter but highly skilled in exploiting testing-system deficiencies.</p>
<p>For students who cram, the information gained for the test is rapidly discarded after the test is done. This is why many bright students look at high school education, astutely, as a very stupid thing: what's the utility of being required to acquire some "overnight" knowledge that is so trivial as to make long-term retention completely unnecessary? </p>
<p>People who design and people who administer 50-question finals that touch upon every day's main topic aren't very bright. In the leading prep schools, LACs and universities, where exams have far fewer questions, but require answers to be composed, only a fraction of topics are addressed. This works because the students don't know which topics will be addressed, so to do well, they must study everything. A 90 on a five-question final means that if the teacher had thrown out the questions he/she intended to use the night before the exam and written five new questions, the student still would have scored a 90.</p>
<p>I think it should be a standard for colleges to specifically outline what would cause admission to be rescinded in the acceptance letter. It seems only fair. You should not have to go through a separate subjective admissions procesess after being accepted.</p>
<p>I know a girl who was rescinded from Harvard last year (apparently she was the only one). Apparently she started skipping school, and ended up with like 30 absences in her last semester.</p>
<p>Holy **** 30 absences?</p>
<p>A friend of mine messed up his final exams because he fell ill ... still got into Georgia Tech (Straight As to a bunch of Bs and Cs)..</p>
<p>I wish this would never happen to me</p>
<p>A student in my school got accepted to HARVARD and then got rescinded becasue he was caught drinking on a school trip.</p>
<p>sucks</p>
<p>The problem could be that the student was working on overload just to get into college that they just can't take any more and when the acceptence letters come in and their body just want's to take a break.</p>
<p>Nothing like that girl who attended Stanford for two years without actually getting in -- and then getting caught</p>