<p>so in my second semester of senior year I had all A's and B's except for one D in regular English that due to bad decisions and major senioritis I could not get back up to a C. I called in to UCR to ask what would happen and they said that once I send in my transcript my admissions decision will be rescinded. They also said there was nothing I could do and I spent almost an hour on the phone with my counselor trying to plead my case but still no can do...</p>
<p>So I've been freaking out and losing hope all day but I sure I can't be the only one who has ever been rescinded...RIGHT? )': </p>
<p>if you've been rescinded before could you please reply with what you did after, which school you ended up going to, where you transferred to, how to transfer, what classes to take to be able to transfer, is your life miserable after getting rescinded etcetcetc...</p>
<p>Really? All for one D in a class? This happened to me my senior year but I was able to go to my teacher at the time, apologize and humbly offer to do an extra credit project. He was kind enough to agree, I received an A and came out with a B-.</p>
<p>Was there some sort of specific provision in your acceptance that was conditional on no grades under C?</p>
<p>I’m probably going to end up going to a community college but this really wont go down well with my parents… ):</p>
<p>yah all for that one D!! I had housing, financial aid, orientation, etc. planned out for this school already and then suddenly they tell me i’m going to be rescinded. I emailed my senior year English teacher and she said my grade could not be changed even though i’m only 1.5% away from a C-</p>
<p>no there wasn’t for grades under C but English is one of the required courses and getting a D means i’m deficient in that category. To be a freshman at the university I would have to have met that requirement…ugh i’m stressing out over what to do</p>
<p>Chicagomama, the UCs specifically require no Ds or Fs in what are called A-G requirements (which I see the OP knows). It seems this English class would be one of those required classes.</p>
<p>OP, if your appeal doesn’t work you are fortunate to be in CA where the track from a CC to a UC is clear. You can check on the CSUs but they may have the same A-G requirements.</p>
<p>Ok, now I understand. That’s pretty specific.</p>
<p>My next question probably doesn’t help OP, but it is to wonder what kind of teacher this is who presumably would also know this rule and would hang a senior student out to dry like this without offering them the chance to fix the situation behind the scenes. To jeopardize college plans for the sake of 1.5% below a C seems to border on vindictive, at least for me.</p>
<p>See if you can speak to your English teacher either on phone or face-to-face. Maybe you can do a project or ANYTHING to save you. Maybe she just doesn’t realize what that small amount means.</p>
<p>The OP needs to get on the CC planning right away. This situation is unfortunate, but the outcome at Riverside seems clear. I don’t know about the CSU system, but I think the deadlines have probably passed. In the meantime, though, the ones for the CC system are coming up quickly. In order to be able to enroll this fall the OP needs to get registered at the CCs in the area.</p>
<p>Senior student hung his own self out to dry. I don’t see anything vindictive about letting people’s own actions have consequences. A high D for a normally A/B student is a lot of blown off assignments.</p>
<p>allyphoe–I wouldn’t judge, I’'ve seen it happen. My roommate in college missed graduation by 3 points worth on a quarter’s worth of work in ONE class. We’re talking essay graded tests (totally subjective in other words) over 3 different exams. Professor could have EASILY re-graded ANY of the exams (even adding one point to any question on each test) and let her graduate if he wasn’t an arrogant pig (and that wasn’t just MHO). Yes, he was vindictive. The faculty went to bat for her but he wouldn’t budge. Cost her big time–missed taking boards timely (only given every six months) and she had already had a job lined up. She did walk the stage with us but no diploma until she re-took the class.
So it cost her salary, time, schooling, job–over 3 subjective points.
He was a research guru but couldn’t teach out of a paper bag.</p>
<p>Oh that is just a major bummer, marshmallowfrogs. Like other folks mentioned, I’d try reaching out to your English teacher directly - either by phone or in person - and explaining your situation, especially since the percentage is so close. </p>
<p>Alternately, you can wait until November to reapply to UC. Travel the world in the meantime. Fight a bear. Get a tattoo. All joking aside, this isn’t the end of the world, although you might want to take a look at the reasons why you weren’t able to bring your grade up and explore how you’re going to fix those issues, especially once you get to college. The UC quarter system is crazy-fast and unforgiving, and you should plan on staying on top of your assignments so you don’t fall behind. I’m rooting for you. Good luck!</p>
<p>UCs and CSUs have almost the same a-g requirements, including 4 years of English courses, so if a D in an English course reduces the amount of English courses to fewer than 4 years, the OP would be ineligible for CSU as well (and CSU’s application deadline was the same time as UC’s deadline).</p>
<p>The CC->UC/CSU path is well documented; take a look at [Welcome</a> to ASSIST](<a href=“http://www.assist.org%5DWelcome”>http://www.assist.org) to check what you need to take at local CCs to transfer to a target major at a target UC/CSU.</p>
<p>Since the college said you were deficient because you were short the English class, would they let you take it over again this summer? Could your acceptance be contingent on completing the summer class with a solid grade?</p>
The “C or better” requirement in all A-G courses is not a sudden addition and you likely have been aware of your D grade for at least two weeks, so it is difficult to fault UCR for following up on their stated policies.
Teachers can be fired for falsifying grades. The teacher almost certainly provided a syllabus at the start of the class outlining his/her grading policies, and the student was 1.5% short of the stated requirements for a C.
I cannot believe anyone on this thread is faulting the teacher for giving the student the grade earned, or suggesting that the teacher should change the grade to make the student UC/CSU-eligible. Would those suggesting such a thing say that ALL failing grades by California students be changed to at least a C so that ALL California students are UC/CSU-eligible? Should grades of D and F be outlawed so all those vindictive teachers cannot ruin the plans of students who do not turn in their assignments? (Please note, the OP is not who I am talking to here, he/she has clearly taken ownership of his/her mistakes.)</p>
<p>For others who face this, the time to act is the instant you know that you will be receiving a grade lower than a C on your transcript (rather than waiting at least two weeks after the end of your semester). That would have been the time to ask for extra credit assignments and/or to get signed up for a summer course to replace the low grade. OP, do look into finding a summer course, though most community colleges are half-way through their summer sessions by now. You might look at private university online offerings - they would be expensive, but probably your only option besides the very good suggestions of the cc to UC or CSU transfer route.</p>
Taking a gap year is an interesting idea, although there may be pitfalls. The OP needs to work with the admissions office at UCR to make sure this will work; if, in fact, it will work then I suggest getting such confirmation in writing (or at least an email).</p>
<p>Here’s why. As it stands the OP does not seem to have met the UC a-g requirements and is not eligible for admission. The OP needs credit for an english class, the question is how? Since graduation she/he is probably not eligible to take it at the HS. </p>
<p>That may leave a CC, but there is a problem. The UC considers anyone who has taken a class at a CC except in the summer session immediately after HS graduation to be a transfer student. Nor is it obvious to me that the CC class would count towards satisfying the a-g requirement.</p>
<p>In the acceptance letter the UC schools all say to notify them immediately. Had the OP done this perhaps there would have still been time to work things out. As Davis said in its alumni magazine
<p>College courses or AP/IB scores can fulfill a-g requirements, although at this late stage in the game, scheduling them would not be feasable without a gap year (and then there would still be no guarantee of admission when reapplying during the gap year, plus the issue of whether taking a college course after high school graduation would disqualify the OP from frosh admission).</p>
This is incorrect. I am dual enrolled since I attend a middle college high school. I am going to be a senior this year and have taken over 15 CC courses throughout my HS career and am applying direct as are many other students from my school. We aren’t considered transfer students and I’m sure students from “normal” high schools who have taken a CC course or two during their HS career are not considered transfer students.</p>