<p>If I get into UChicago early, how poorly would I have to do to get rescinded? I have a feeling I might pull a C in Physics C, a B in BC Calc, and As in my four other APs. Will I get the boot for the C?</p>
<p>I'm not an expert, but no, you won't. O'Neill even made a joke about that in one of his speeches, I believe.</p>
<p>So one typically has to do some serious slacking to get the boot, eh? Several Cs or even Ds?</p>
<p>D's and F's, probably. Basically, the admissions office is pretty confident in you if they admit you, and are assuming that you aren't going to do anything out of your academic character... so, don't skate your second semester, but you don't really need to worry about one C in a difficult class.</p>
<p>haha...in my last quarter of senior year i got 2 D's...one in calc and the other in drama...(don't ask how i got a D in drama but it has something to do with plag****<em>) i don't wanna convict myself fully. Ne-ways i got a letter from o'neil saying *</em>?? So i apologized, made sum excuses saying that senioritis hit me and stuff. Thank God I didn't get rescinded...but ur grades r wayyyy better than mine. Calc C u say? The of my grades were B's except for the A in Journalism and Ap stats. This is not an endorsement for laziness but it shows</p>
<p>vutiful, to help out future students, when did you get that letter? I was so paranoid that I would be rescinded. Honestly, I kept thinking that I was accidentally accepted and that they would rescind me anyday. I didn't really calm down until my housing assignment came. It still seems too good to be true that I'm going to Chicago.</p>
<p>Put it this way--</p>
<p>If a class is legitimately challenging, B's and C's are fine. You probably started out the year in a B/C range anyway. </p>
<p>What looks extremely suspicious is a falloff from A-range grades to F-range grades. Every school treats these cases differently, and there's no correlation between selectivity of school and action school decides to take. For example, a friend of mine was failing three classes senior year (failing because he was lazy), and Yale didn't seem to care at all. However, I know kids who were put on academic probation at Gettysburg C where they were being watched closely the first semester.</p>
<p>I don't know of anybody having their admissions decision rescinded for low grades. I heard a rumor that a prospie who had to go to the hospital to get his stomach pumped during an overnight had his admissions offer rescinded, but I have no idea if that's true.</p>
<p>"O'Neill even made a joke about that in one of his speeches, I believe."</p>
<p>We hope, just because you imagined that when you arrived you would catch a whiff of the corpse of fun, that you didn't delay your departure. Maybe you thought you got the wrong letter! Or, that we changed our decision - we found out that you didn't study for your calculus placement exam, or read The Iliad, or memorize French idioms, or, that we really paid attention to your spring semester C- in AP Chemistry - that instead you went to the beach, de-tassled corn, or drank a root beer - things no University of Chicago student is supposed to do. But we don't make mistakes, and, stare decisus the decision stands (for the next day or so, the Latin phase newscasters will take the most pleasure in saying), stare decisus, unless you really think those old judges didn't know what they were doing - stare decisus - "you're stuck" is the English translation.</p>
<p>From his Class of 2009 Convocation Speech.</p>
<p>i got the letter a month ago...and I wrote back. Yea..unalove you're right. My grades slipped badly, and that's one of the points that o'neil pointed out in his letter.</p>
<p>I know from recent experience that two Cs among a bunch of the usual As does not (did not) draw a letter from Chicago. A few years ago, a friend's daughter did get a letter from Yale for two Cs, though. (Of course, she wrote a chastened letter back and her admission was NOT rescinded.)</p>