<p>I let my grades completely drop second semester.</p>
<p>However, I was confident that I had a 3.0.</p>
<p>Just a couple days ago, a lady emailed me saying that they are going to cancel my offer of admission within five days. I was shocked. She said I had a 2.8 unweighted GPA. I called her, and found out that they did not count Leadership. Fortunately, I knew that one of my teachers messed up my grades. At the time, a lot of things were going on in my life and I settled for the grade because I thought my overall unweighted GPA was a 3.0. </p>
<p>Now that Leadership doesn't count, I did all the necessary measures to inform my teacher. She already made the grade change request, however, due to summer intercession, the registrar is not available to alter my grade until August 5th. I have contacted the district and they are willing to speak on my behalf and verify my claim.</p>
<p>The only thing is that the lady that I am working with is extremely difficult and nasty. She is not willing to sustain my admission simply because she does not know why I didn't request for my grade to be changed until I received the notice from her that I did not have a sufficient GPA. </p>
<p>Regardless of my character, I do not understand how that can affect my admission offer. Please help with some advice of the situation. Can I speak with someone else regarding my case? </p>
<p>I did not do anything wrong. My grade change that will be processed in August will show that I did receive an unweighted 3.0 GPA. I take blame that I did not pursue a grade change until I was informed, but I did not see it necessary until then. Can that lady fault me and take away my admission simply because she questions my character and why I did not request a grade change earlier?</p>
<p>Thanks for your help. Sorry that it is so long but I am really worried.</p>
<p>No, in a perfect world, that wouldn’t be fair and you would still be admitted, but this world is far from perfect. </p>
<p>I guess you can somehow arrange your principal or guidance counselor to contact the college admissions, send them a letter explaining the predicament your in.
But that isn’t a guaranteed approach, just a suggestion from one who has never been in your situation and never will.</p>
<p>Yeah, I gave her the contact information. I believe that she will call the Director of Curriculum and Instruction at my district office. He knows the situation and is ready to vouch for me.</p>
<p>I just have the feeling that she will do anything to get me rescinded. Seriously, I have never encountered such a demeaning and nasty person at Berkeley until I met her. </p>
<p>Telling people that their admission has been rescinded is not a job anyone volunteers for. I assure you, the people doing that don’t really have that much power; I’m fairly certain that you will be able to work it out.</p>
<p>I’m so worried because regardless of if my school/district verifies my claim, the admission officer speaks as if it is her sole discretion, regardless of any validation of my grades. She is very perturbed that I failed to initiate a grade change request prior to her email to me. </p>
<p>Even though I can have school officials validate the minimum GPA, I cannot send an official transcript until August 5th. Since she is so against me, she is not willing to sustain my admission and wait until then. I feel that even if she gets proof from calling my school, she will find some other excuse to rescind my admission.</p>
<p>yeah, this is why when i knew i was going to be borderline, i made sure to calculate my GPA based on only academic classes.</p>
<p>wow…your district still has ppl working there, but can’t get a transcript out? talk about locked duties. i guess you’re just going to have to hope the school call works out. and really, she won’t “find some other excuse” because then you could technically sue her (unless you didn’t send your scores or something…). stick to fulfilling everything in the conditions of admission contract (treat it like a binding agreement).</p>
<p>if she chooses to boot you, i’m sorry. it wouldn’t surprise me if UCs are more willing now to punt students off the boat to reduce costs. it’s the way the financial situation has worked out–the state is cutting millions of dollars from UCs and CSUs, and the university systems have to cut back on services. you should just remember to always play it safe, go to a community college for this year, and try to transfer into berkeley.</p>
<p>Why am I not surprised? If you carry this mentality into Berkeley provided that something magically happens to your situation at Sproul Hall, you will probably end up failing college. The majority of students who take the entire first half of the year off prior to college (i.e. Winter break, Spring break, Summer break) do miserably their first semester at Cal.</p>
<p>Sure you did. You phoned-in the second semester. </p>
<p>Don’t make out the “lady” to be the bad guy here. The letter of acceptance from Cal clearly stated a 3.0 was required for all year. There are literally thousands of kids who were rejected from Cal this year that pulled at least a 3.8 uw second semester. You should be rescinded and someone else should be admitted instead. Just bcos you got senioritis. Sheesh.</p>
<p>Hurry and accept UCR’s offer!! If you applied lol. I remember last year I kept getting emails from ucr until like the end of august telling me to accept their offer.</p>
<p>Ok before you guys decide to deface my name, realize that there were extenuating circumstances that led to the downfall of my grades. Sometimes, you must choose other urgencies in your life and prioritize for the well-being of others. I don’t need to go into details, but I must say that it is rather appalling that some people are so ignorant. </p>
<p>I worked extremely hard to be admitted into Berkeley, and after fixing my teacher’s mistake, I have met the conditions of admission. Therefore, I certainly do deserve to be a student at Berkeley and that is why I was admitted. Please understand my situation and do not rudely demean my character.</p>
<p>For all others like KemKid, thanks for your encouraging responses.</p>
<p>“extenuating circumstances” I always hear this alot on this forum when people are about to get rescinded. I guess “extenuating circumstances” can mean a bunch of things, like how i broke my wrist (the hand i wrote with) and still managed to get 4.0 with 21 units for the semester. Good luck, and don’t ever let your gaurd down like that again.</p>
<p>Is there really such a thing as extenuating circumstances in high school? </p>
<p>Don’t worry man, you’ll still get in. If that woman won’t help you, then simply figure out a way to talk to someone else until you get what you want. F her. Also, try to play it like Cal made the mistake or misunderstood something; they’ll be much more likely to help you that way.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, your original post did not explain your grade drop, i.e., extenuating circumstances. You asked for “help” but did to provide any details for us to help you with.</p>
<p>With the new information, you should write a letter detailing your extenuating circumstances and your grade drop, and what you learned about it, and how you expect that it won’t happen again. Then the last par is that your district made an error on your transcript, but the HS is closed, even tho you have e-mailed your former teacher and GC… </p>
<p>Close with the fact that even tho you had extenuating circumstances, you nevertheless still maintained a 3.0.</p>