<p>Hey my best friend got into UVa ED this year, but she's been having some serious personal and familial problems this past semester. She's had some serious depression problems and her grades have dropped significantly. </p>
<p>She's gotten two D's for the first semester, but considering her situation, will she get rescinded immediately?</p>
<p>If anyone knows anyone who's gotten rescinded before or how UVa treats this kind of situation, please help.</p>
<p>Please help and Thank you.</p>
<p>Your friend's college counselor needs to know about this and help your friend arrange accordingly.......how would UVA know unless the transcript was forwarded??? Why would your friend not be proactive about this?</p>
<p>Yes, I would immediately encourage your friend to discuss the personal problems she and her family are experiencing with her guidance counselor and seek the GC's help in intervening on her behalf with UVA. Her situation certainly constitutes special circumstances and warrants special consideration and accommodation by the university. As Hazmat said, she, and the GC, must be proactive!</p>
<p>well, if she's had serious depression, hazmat.....<br>
explosion, hazmat's ideas are on target imo, so if she can meet with the GC, that is best. Good for you for trying to help in the situation; if your friend is at all still paralyzed by depression, perhaps you could speak to the GC on her behalf so that the GC knows what is going on and can try to intervene with help with the immediate problem (as well as the college admissions part)</p>
<p>wow I didn't mean to cause an explosion. I am well aware that depression can cause inability to act, denial etc. I should think that the school counselor would know that the grades had dropped but apparently many counselors don't even know their counselees these days. I wasn't implying that depression wasn't a medical condition, requiring treatment and advocacy for the patient.</p>
<p>thanks for helping. </p>
<p>Our guidance couselor knows about it to an extent I believe...</p>
<p>The question would be whether it would be better, more legitimate if she and her family take action or her GC..</p>
<p>thanks again.</p>
<p>I should think that the only involvement would be the transcript reporting that the guidance counselor would be handling........any comments. If the student is ED then she is a student and probably she will need to work out permission for her parents to act in her stead with the college or to share information and also her treating physician. It gets complicated if your friend is 18 and also with the college.</p>
<p>My recommendation is that the GC is the better one to communicate with the college re any possible effect the current grades will have on the ED and explaining the circumstances. But the first step if for the student (possibly parents as well) and GC to meet and talk all of this over, make a plan for communication with the college and go from there.</p>
<p>wise advice.......the options involving deferred matriculation will come into play.</p>
<p>explosions123, all of the recommendations here have been good. But, frankly, the most important thing that can happen here is that your friend immediately get the help that she needs from a counselor, pastor, or other responsible adult to treat the depression and deal with the family problems. If she can do this, her end of year grades will probably come up and mid-year grades may not be an issue at all!</p>
<p>so....if she pulls her grades up by the end of the year, it will be alright? </p>
<p>Does the mid-year report just mean a simple checkup to be completed at the end of the second semester or something?</p>
<p>hmm. thanks.</p>
<p>The school will definitely be concerned about the two Ds, and her required mid-year report will red-flag those. Unless your friend, her parents, and her counselor can reassure the admissions committee that her academic slid was due to exceptional circumstances, circumstances which are being adequately addressed and corrected, they may well recind their offer of admission. As others have stated, she MUST be proactive. Quiltguru is right. Your friend must seek help with her depression, and work to bring her grades back up to pre-slide level.</p>