<p>"I sent a letter to you last month, indicating that our office reviewed your mid-year grade report. To date, we have not received a response from you. As a reminder, your admission is contingent upon your continued strong academic performance in the program of courses you presented to us. We are concerned about your recent academic performance, which demonstrates a level of performance below that which you presented in your application.<br>
In my earlier letter to you, I requested that you provide an explanation of this decline, as well as an account of how you plan to improve your academic record in the future. I asked that this letter be sent to our office no later than Wednesday, April 9.<br>
It is imperative that you provide this explanation to our office within the next forty-eight hours. Once your written explanation is received, I will meet with the Director of Admission to review your response. We will contact you shortly thereafter regarding the status of your acceptance.</p>
<h2>Thank you for your prompt attention to this serious matter."</h2>
<p>This was the e-mail I just got about my mid-year grade report. Its funny because I never recieved this original warning letter that he talked about. My mid-year report contained 2 B's and 1 C all in AP Classes.(there were 3 A's)</p>
<p>I've wrote a response, explaining that I was working 30+ hours a week and doing my other work while looking for a new job for my dad because he got laid off. The really bad thing is, that my final grades are probably going to be worse than my mid-year grades. What should I do? Am I done here, because even if they redeem me this time, theyll freak when they see 2 C's and 2 B's on my final report and probably rescind me right???
I do have a good explanation and told them that I would be ready to go when the fall comes around when I'll be away from my home distractions.
If I plead my case, will I be alright?? I'm really scared now this caught me completely off guard today.</p>
<p>About which school are you talking? It might be a good idea to get your counselor involved. S/he might be able to call the school and get a clearer picture of where you stand and help explain your situation.</p>
<p>My goodness that's dreadful!! what school is this? It might help if you tell us because different schools take final year grades more seriously than others.</p>
<p>You have a good reason for the grade drop, and I highly doubt that the school (Yale?) will rescind you.</p>
<p>Call the college, and get your GC to call to verify your situation.</p>
<p>Hugs to you. Sounds like a very rough semester in terms of what's going on with your family's finances. Would have been virtually impossible to keep grades up while having to work 30 hours a week.</p>
<p>You are another example of how stupid people are being when they complain that they wish they were poor so they'd have an easier time with college admissions. There are poor students whose grades are weak throughout high school because they have to work 30 hours a week to help support their parents and sibs.</p>
<p>Yeah thanks northstarmom. The school is yale, which angers me now that I've already enrolled when I could've chosen john hopkins if I had known they would've been this anal.</p>
<p>The thing that really urks me is that I never recieved this prior letter he talks about in the e-mail...
And even if I get out of trouble this time, (I've already sent a response via e-mail), they probably won't give me another chance when they find out that my final report will be worse than my mid-year grades. But if I have the same excuse year round, than will they be ok with it? Or will they see it as a blown second chance? This is really scaring me right now.
And the thing is, I was just getting ready to visit this coming weekend, and in the e-mail I offered to discuss it in person.
Just when I was getting excited to finally visit my school, this happens! I'm more worried now than when I was during application time. ugh.</p>
<p>As long as you don't get Ds and Fs, I doubt that Yale will pull your admission when they learn that you've been having to work 30 hours a week due to family economic problems. </p>
<p>Call Yale, and have your GC call so as to verify your situation.</p>
<p>My experience as a Harvard alum is that places like H and Y believe in the students whom they accept. After all, their acceptance process is laborious and they have an incredible pool of applicants.</p>
<p>Problems like plagiarism, lying on apps or having criminal charges due to things going beyond stupid (not horribly destructive) senior pranks probably could get students rescinded as could getting things like Fs and Ds in h.s. due to slacking off.</p>
<p>You haven't done those type of things. instead, due to family need, you're busting butt working 30 hours a week while carrying a rigorous (I assume since you were accepted at Yale) senior schedule. </p>
<p>I also think that Yale is far more likely to be understanding of you than Hopkins would have been. From what I've seen, places like H and Y take such pride in the students that they admit, that they will back them up unless the students do something truly egregious.</p>
<p>I also think that the e-mail that Yale originally sent was designed to scare you into not getting the Fs and Ds that would have caused you to be rescinded.</p>
<p>Please talk to your GC, and then call Yale and have your GC call.</p>
<p>I dunno, sounds like it could be one of your friends playing a "prank" on you. Maybe not, but I wonder why you didn't get the original letter. I suggest you open the email you got and examine the headers to see if it really originated at yale.edu or passed thru something like hotmail.</p>
<p>no this isn't a joke, I checked the headers and the e-mail gave me a specific admissions person at yale.edu to send my response to.
I'm still really stressed because of this, only because I know my final grades will be worse than my mid-year.
I'm waiting for an e-mail back from them. I don't see the point of getting my gc involved at this point because i've already responded via e-mail, and I was going down there this weekend anyway so I'll talk to them in person if anything.</p>
<p>Any tips on how I should bring up the subject of my bad final semester performance with them in light of all of this?</p>
<p>screw 'em go somewhere else, why put up with this
childish ridiculous bs for 4 years. They're pathetic losers
trying to intimidate you. The ideological management
begins. See the light, brother and get out now. Write
back and tell 'em where to stick it!</p>
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<p>Even if you didn't have economic problems/had to work more/etc., are these grades really enough to rescind? I mean, I don't think they will care at all if you get all Bs, and I didn't think it mattered it you got on C. Even for Yale.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering. Does anyone have experience with this?</p>
<p>Sorry to hijack your post. I'm just wondering b/c I believe my second semester grades will be 4 As, 2 Bs, and 1 C (the C being in a college class). I might end up enrolling into Princeton. And this thread has got me nervous. (especially considering there are no extreme extenuating circumstances to explain my grades)</p>
<p>Back to your topic, though. Just explain it to them. It doesn't seem enough to rescind your admissions IMO</p>
<p>I've just explained it to them and am waiting for a response, and even if i get off the hook for my mid-year report, its my final report that's going to kill me. Will my explanation be enough for both semesters???</p>
<p>I would say that your explanation justifies it for first and second semester. Besides, since they are giving you this warning so late in the year and you probably don't have time to make your final report any better, they have no right to expect your final report to be better than your midyear.</p>
<p>btw, im also going to yale and got a warning letter for 1 C, but it wasn't as harsh as this. Its probably an intimidating letter because its their second notice, and they are assuming you recieved their first one.</p>
<p>I would say don't worry so much, try to get your grades up, and talk to your gc and the admissions office. The people I talked to at the yale office were always friendly and helpful, and will probably do everything they can to help you as well. So talk to them. ASAP.</p>
<p>I think you'll be fine. You are low income, had to work 30 hours a week after your dad lost his job. Next to no one would be able to maintain high grades under such a situation.</p>
<p>As long as you don't get Ds and Fs, I think you'll be fine.</p>
<p>Yale, however, probably will want to make sure that you don't try to work 30 hours a week to help your family while in college because if you do that, you won't get the grades to pass.</p>
<p>I hope you also called them and got your GC to call them. This isn't a situation to handle through e-mail. Admissions officers at places like Yale are nice people. They are in accepted students' corners. The adcoms aren't looking for reasons to rescind hard working students who face difficult challenges.</p>