<p>Just a quick question. Does anyone know for sure at what point Harvard will decide to rescind my grades? Ex., if I get a C or two where I've before gotten straight As, will that merit a rescinding? I really hope not. It's been a busy semester for me, no joke : ).</p>
<p>Probably you’d need to get a D.</p>
<p>what percentage is a d?</p>
<p>A D is likely to get you a threatening letter, not a recission, but don’t chance it. With a C or two, you are definitely safe. Make sure you pass everything.</p>
<p>Thanks. Anyone else have input on this matter? For whatever reason, I’d like to avoid asking an actual admissions counselor about the topic if at all possible, and if someone can point me to literature that supports the fact that a D is what I need to get to get my butt kicked out.</p>
<p>Of course, they’d never publish anything of the kind…it would be an invitation to students to blow off their senior spring. They would never want to discourage students from maintaining the record they have built so far. The advice of two Harvard interviewers is the most reassurance you’re going to find.</p>
<p>REALLY??!! A c is safe! YAY!!! Time to slack off even more! I’ve been killing myself, okay not really, but it’s been cutting into my free time, to get a B- in Physics. Now, I don’t even need to spend the time to worry about it!</p>
<p>Thanks so much, Hanna and NSM. Just came back from spring break and discovered that I literally do not know anything about calculus anymore. One slightly smaller worry now.</p>
<p>I mite end up with a C+ or a B- in IB French SL2, which I am taking because of the IB diploma. Will that get me rescinded from UVA?</p>
<p>Through some act of divine intervention, I managed to get my grades up to all As and one B (which I should be able to pull up to an A). This, of course, came at the steep price of my yet not having learned how to dance properly for prom.</p>
<p>Maybe you can do the same, chowder202, but I hope you consider all the consequences (such as the one I laid out just a sentence ago) carefully before attempting any drastic steps to improve your academic performance.</p>
<p>I would caution everyone on the board that, in the rare but plausible event that your admission offer is rescinded, “College Confidential told me X grades were OK” will NOT be an effective appeal :)</p>
<p>I’ve been through the process of senior spring myself (and, in fact, am going through the undergraduate version now!) and can assure you that anyone who can have good enough grades to be accepted to Harvard can maintain such grades through their last HS semester. I encourage you to do as well as you can, if for no other reason than that you leave high school feeling like you got everything you could out of high school.</p>
<p>Congrats on being so close to graduating!</p>
<p>Slackers. You should be ashamed and deep into the depths of despondency. </p>
<p>If you’re erudition is Harvardesque, you should have a vociferous cupidity for knowledge.</p>
<p>My grades were atrocious second semester of senior year.</p>
<p>DwightEisenhower: How atrocious?</p>
<p>@Admiral - well, it’s between AP tests and grades for me right now. April 20th, and I haven’t studied for a single one of 4 AP tests. I’m absolutely boggled as to how I managed to juggle 6 and maintain straight As on top of SAT IIs and the SAT and ACT last year…absolutely impossible in retrospect</p>
<p>I was accepted with a C on my MYR, leading me to believe that a C would not lead to rescindment.</p>
<p>Were you straight-A before?</p>