<p>My son got a D for the spring semester in his AP physics class. He was accepted at UCSD as a Poli Sci major and we know he could be rescinded. Does anyone have any experience with a situation like this? We have no idea how the decision process goes or if there is a way to mitigate the situation. Any advice?</p>
<p>I don’t know anyone personally who got their acceptance recinded, but I know a bunch who were accepted on probation and/or got their acceptances delayed for a year or semester due to issues. </p>
<p>At our school, the end of year transcript only has the end of year grades on them. So if your son got a D for one quarter or semester, it is averaged with his first term grades so that all the college sees is that averaged grade. They don’t see the quarter and exam breakdowns, thank goodness, as my one son flunked his calc final and did not do well last quarter at all, but due to straight A’s and B’s first semester, the damages were not apparent. So before getting upset, find out exactly what the high school is sending to the college. Is it the last semester grades or the full year grades?</p>
<p>I would quickly enroll him in summer school to retake.</p>
<p>It seems like it would be a lesser issue for a Poli Sci major than a physics major. But it is hard to know how colleges handle these things. Good luck!</p>
<p>I don’t have first hand knowledge but I think they do actually rescind sometimes for getting a grade lower than a C in the senior year. The key word there is ‘sometimes’. I think they tell you in the provisional admissions material to contact the admissions office right away if a low grade is received (I’m not certain so you should check). They may at least offer a way for him to mitigate it such as retaking it at a CC as ‘redroses’ indicated but check with them to make sure he’s taking the best course of action and understands his options. I’d check with them Monday if I was you.</p>
<p>If it’s not too late, take a “W”…that is easier to explain than a D.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t a W be just as bad? He took the AP test too so maybe that is not a good choice. The teacher is one of those “on principle” types who wouldn’t assign any extra credit to help,he missed a C-by 1.3 percent. We called UCSD and they said summer school grades come in too late to be evaluated. They did say a D is better than an F. We have located a CC class and we’re enrolling him anyway-it can’t hurt. If the worst case scenario plays out he’ll at least have some college units started so he can apply as a transfer student. It’s so disheartening!</p>
<p>When you called UCSD didn’t they tell you what would happen? Are they deferring the decision on rescinding until later?</p>
<p>I think with a W he’d be in the same boat because you have to explain any changes to the expected senior schedule and they likely know what the W really means in a case like this anyway.</p>
<p>A couple of years ago a kid from our school was headed to UCSD but got a senior year D in calculus. UCSD didn’t rescind outright but put his acceptance “on-hold” and told him to make it right by retaking the course over the summer. He did not retake, so the end result was he was rescinded. I’ve lost track of the kid, but last I heard he still had not enrolled in any college.</p>
<p>If his grades are something like 1 D 5 As, and he wants to do PoliSci, I don’t imagine it’ll be that big of a deal. I would think at worst they would send a letter asking for an explanation. If his grades were something more like 1 D 3 Cs 2 Bs, that might be something a little different.</p>
<p>By the way, if this is Physics C, that’s a hard class. They’ll keep that in mind.</p>
<p>With that grade, he may have to switch his major to Politics from Political Science.</p>
<p>^ He may even have to switch to the “Gummint” track.</p>
<p>They told us that they would make decisions at the end of July but since he got a D it was in violation of his SIR contract and he “could” be rescinded. We were told a D is better than an F in these cases, whatever that could mean. I think we will be making an in person visit if we can, just to talk to someone face to face.</p>
<p>I don’t have any expertise in this, but if I were in the admissions office, I would want to get a call from a student, explaining what happened. </p>
<p>Did your son find a summer school class and get himself registered? That would be very refreshing to hear, I would think. This is a good opportunity for him to show that he’s resourceful and independent and acknowledges his own mistakes and moves beyond them.</p>
<p>Yes he did find a summer school class and we plan for him to make a call and a subsequent appointment to talk to someone in admissions. I keep hoping to hear that somebody has had a similar situation and was NOT rescinded, but I haven’t.</p>
<p>u might have better luck with responses if u post in the uc general forum…</p>
<p>thanks I will!</p>
<p>now we’ve been told to check withouther state campuses to see if they might reopen his offer of admission</p>
<p>Worst case scenario - even if your S has his admission rescinded, can he still attend as a non-matriculating student while reapplying for winter semester admittance as a matriculating student?</p>
<p>I didn’t know you could do that.</p>