Dude, am I going to USC or not? RESCIND?!?!

Hey so… I got into USC for the fall. I’m a straight A student but senioritis really got me this year. I got straight B’s first semester and I’m sure they saw that cause you have to send your fall grades… but this semester I got 3 B’s and a C. I haven’t made a single A this whole year. I feel like that’s very different from my previous record and am scared to hell that I’m going to get rescinded.

My overall high school UW GPA is hanging around a 3.53 but second semester I had all AP’s so it was more rigorous and well it was second semester of my senior year. I was absent a lot, but I do have an explanation in addition to being a senior (my sister had a life-threatening condition and Im the only one in the family that can really speak English).

This was the most selective class the average UW GPA is a 3.9, someone tell me if should be making alternate plans in the fall. I dropped two deposits cause I was scared of this all along!

Yeah, you’re done for. enjoy community college.

seriously, though, you’re fine.

You passed all classes and graduated, and had one C in an all AP schedule. That’s not what gets a rescission letter. Stop worrying, and enjoy your summer. With an AP classes, your schedule was similar to what you will see in college, and not everybody will get straight A’s there, unless there’s major grade inflation. If you had straight A’s in the first marking period, I might worry you’re not ready for college level work, but I still wouldn’t worry about rescission.

It’s fine. Get down off the ledge and pack your bags for USC.

I would go on offense - not just post messages on an online message board - and contact the admissions office and be honest about your situation, both good and bad. Call them, write them a letter, etc. and document your circumstances. The worst thing that could happen to you IMHO is that they rescind your admission and then you go to community college or some other school for a year, get your grades back on track, and then come in to USC as a transfer. It happens all the time.

Just remember that life is a marathon not a sprint and that we all have to deal with setbacks along the way. You can do it, you’ll be fine, and I’d be worried if you weren’t worried - that’s a good sign of conscientiousness on your part.

BTW have you thought about taking a gap year? Really - have you thought about taking a gap year? I’ve become a BIG fan of those in recent years. There’s so much pressure on all of you these days to get perfect grades and get into the best schools possible (every trend that was emerging when I was in school has gotten worse) that people have trouble seeing the forest for the trees, or stopping to smell the roses.

Taking a gap year would allow you to work, do some travel maybe if you have the $$$, and experience life outside of school. It allows you to do more of the important non-academic work of growing up, and that’s finding out who you are and what you want out of life. Do a little more personal development and then when you come back to school you’ll be that much more focused, and undoubtedly have a lot of classmates who wish they’d done the same.

See the above comment about life being a marathon and not a sprint. And watch Steve Jobs’ famous 2005 commencement speech at Stanford - he talks about the time AFTER he formally dropped out of Reed College and sat in on their calligraphy classes because that was one thing the school was known for. Years later, when they were designing the Macintosh, he put all of the font information he’d learned into the Mac.

I’m pretty sure USC doesn’t rescind for bad grades. They might send you a note telling you to try harder though.

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