<p>Excellent! I had a feeling this one was going to work out. </p>
<p>I’m convinced that not whining, blaming, or complaining but accepting responsibility and promising to do better is the best attitude for these cases.</p>
<p>Welcome to San Diego. He’ll love it here.</p>
<p>Great news and excellent advice in your post.</p>
<p>So happy to hear this news!</p>
<p>That’s great news! I’ve been following this thread with great hopes for a positive outcome. And I want to say that I really respect how your son handled this. I am sure he impressed the college with his maturity. And you deserve kudos to for doing such a great job of supporting him. </p>
<p>Enjoy the rest of your summer with your son!</p>
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<p>This is one of your son’s very admirable qualities – he’s practical and he’s resilient. </p>
<p>On CC we often see posts from kids (and parents) who think it’s the end of the world if they are rejected by their dream school – or who won’t consider realistic alternative plans when they can’t afford their desired schools. No way will they ever attend their (shudder) in-state public or community college, or consider a gap year. </p>
<p>Or they complain as if it is the greatest injustice to humankind if they are “cheated” out of their rightful spot as class valedictorian because of some rule about grade weighting that doesn’t happen to work in their favor, or they bemoan that they were unfairly graded down because of some teacher’s reprehensible use of the dreaded “group project” - etc.</p>
<p>Your son – and you – could keep your eye on the prize and at the same time think in terms of realistic and workable alternatives. So in a sense, you had a path to success whether or not the UCSD admission was honored or rescinded – it just would have been a different path than planned. </p>
<p>Again – you guys took ownership of the problem, you accepted responsibility – you asked for advice without making excuses – and you took the right steps to address the issue. I think that your son probably helped himself immensely when he met with the staff at UCSD – I am sure they must have been impressed with him in person as much as we CC’ers have been impressed by merely reading your account.</p>
<p>I am so thrilled for you both! And I too have learned a lot from how you both handled this situation!</p>
<p>Congratulations to you and your son!!! Thank goodness someone excerised some common sense in this kid’s case.</p>
<p>Congrats! “3down…now that this is behind you what are you going to do?” GO TO DISNEYLAND…lol</p>
<p>OMG! Do you know me? I have been thinking about doing that all day!</p>
<p>Hi 3down! I’m so happy for you and your son. I first saw your thread when you first started it, as I was/might have been in the same situation. I had a D in AP Chem, but thankfully was able to bring it up to a C by the time school ended. I’m also going to UCSD, so I was actively following your thread. I’m so happy for you! and I really admire the way you handled the situation. props to you for not freaking out like other parents…i’m sure your son appreaciates the calm way you handles it. I know I appreciate how my parents supported me. Congrats to you and your son!</p>
<p>Congrats! 3down…</p>
<p>So are you sending one bottle of champagne to each one of us who cheered for you?
Lets cheer together…</p>
<p>3down, I have been following this thread and am so happy for you and your son! Enjoy the rest of your summer!</p>
<p>3down, thanks for sharing your Ss dilemma . It was a learning experience for all us. I am so pleased it turned out well. CONGRATS! :)</p>
<p>Another lurker saying how happy I am for your son and you, 3down. What a relief!</p>
<p>Great news. Congratulations and best of luck to your son in college.</p>
<p>It’s pretty rare, but yes I’ve had students admissions rescinded because they failed a course. I am a high school teacher. Acceptances are always contingent on continued hard work and successful work. You cannot get into college and then stop working. Colleges do not like that and they may exercise their option to reject you, after all. It’s not necessary to maintain an ‘A’ average, but you can’t get D’s or F’s or you may have a big problem. Talk to the Admission people about what to do.</p>
<p>This is such good news. I am so glad they looked at the whole student/whole picture. Congrats to your son.</p>
<p>Oh, I am so glad! Congratulations to you both!</p>
<p>Excellent news!</p>
<p>Phew!!!</p>