I’ve always been curious. Let’s say a students grades began to drop significantly but they submitted their tuition/housing deposit by the May 1st deadline. Then the student sends in the transcript in June/July when high school ends and the college sees the drop in performance. Can the college proceed to rescind the admission? Wouldn’t it be crazy to do such thing considering you paid for the college and if they took away your acceptance, you can’t select another college because it’s well past the May deadline?
Yup.
Pretty much every college’s acceptance letter will include some type of disclaimer about the offer being contingent upon making satisfactory progress, among other conditions.
Yes. It can happen as you describe where a student is rescinded after the May 1 deadline. I’ve seen it happening as late as August. Unfortunately, the student would then have very limited immediate options.
The student could attend a local community college, take a gap year and reapply the following year with the transcript as it stands at graduation, apply now to schools who are still looking for applicants, or contact a school that originally accepted the student and see if they will accept a late SIR under the circumstances.
If your acceptance is to a college that is desperately looking for warm tuition paying bodies to avoid bankruptcy then you may not be rescinded.
No college will take away your acceptance. You will have thrown it away by goofing off senior year.
I am wondering: In cases where acceptances have been rescinded, how bad does the drop off in performance have to be? I am assuming that one or two A’s turning into one or two B’s is probably not enough to cause any problem for the student. Perhaps multiple B’s turning into Ds and F’s would be more what would be needed to mess things up, but I am not really sure.
I have heard that high school students very often have a drop off in motivation for high school once they have picked a university and accepted the offer. It looks to me as if my high school senior daughter has had less homework in the last week or so, and probably more interesting side trips that the senior class is taking. I have been assuming that this is an effort on the part of the high school to keep things interesting, and to accept that a drop off in motivation is inevitable.
Is having the acceptance rescinded more likely to occur when a student was accepted off of Junior year grades, and goofed off the entire senior year?
They can and they do. That’s what waitlists are for too. @DadTwoGirls , the rule of thumb is no D or F grades. I imagine if a bunch of Cs appear on a report card,that might cause concern at some super selective colleges, but a couple probably won’t be an issue.
And no felonies!