<p>After being accepted into your ED school, (almost all) colleges ask you to withdraw your application from other schools. This is fine, except what happens if you do poorly (in an academic sense) during your last semester of senior year? Of course I won't let this happen, but will the ED college revoke its acceptance spot to you and leave you, well, "collegeless" for the next year? </p>
<p>Also, if I am a 3.97/4.0 student, to what extent can I "slack off" before getting my acceptance taken away? I realize the aforementioned question is subjective and varies from school to school...</p>
<p>If you’re a 3.97/4.0 student I don’t think you’ll have a problem in your second semester. Just keep working as hard as you already have. Work hard and you won’t have to worry about being “collegeles.”</p>
<p>Yeah but ruthie let’s be honest this kid will slack off. Don’t worry OP I’m doing the same thing don’t worry. I’ve been wondering this as well. It definitely depends on the school. If it’s an Ivy or something, you can’t get all C’s, but if it’s a state school, maybe half C’s and half B’s are okay.</p>
<p>If you do poorly (significantly worse than what you were accepted with) you will be rescinded. Then you’ll end up looking for some last minute school or taking a gap year while you think through your essay on “what I learned by slacking off”.</p>
<p>this is not an “early decision” problem. Regular decision rescissions will also leave a kid college-less, assuming a kid doesn’t place a deposit with more than one school.</p>
<p>can they really rescind your acceptance after literally preventing you from applying to other schools? I’d assume in the worse case scenario that you got zeros on all your exams they’d still have to take you…right? <em>gulp</em></p>
<p>No, of course not. Basically all acceptances are conditional on the fact that you continue your academic achievement and not suddenly stop going to school just because you got into college.</p>