<p>And answer the following question: Has anyone ever actually gotten rescinded? Look, I know it supposedly happens all the time, but all the stories I hear are about are your best friend's older sister's boyfriend or your grocer's hair dresser's niece or this kid who sits four seats behind you and three to the left in AP English. Can someone who has actually gotten rescinded respond? </p>
<p>My theory is unless you get all D's, it basically is a myth.</p>
<p>Good question. I think it's a myth too.</p>
<p>It is not a myth, but it probably does not happen very often. At the University of Washington in Seattle, they only rejected ex post facto about 40 people out of a >10K pool, and warned 200 more.</p>
<p>How do you know this?</p>
<p>What happened to the 40 people to make them rejected after admission?</p>
<p>One of my friends got his Harvard acceptance rescinded by getting a 1.7 GPA second semester senior year. But then his AP test scores came back and he got 5 5's, and they let him back in.</p>
<p>lmao i love your descriptions of the ppl you hear from</p>
<p>your hair dresser's grocer's niece lmao</p>
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At the University of Washington in Seattle, they only rejected ex post facto about 40 people out of a >10K pool, and warned 200 more.
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One of my friends got his Harvard acceptance rescinded by getting a 1.7 GPA second semester senior year. But then his AP test scores came back and he got 5 5's, and they let him back in.
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See, even the stories and facts you get about being rescinded seem sketchy. Where'd you get those stats? Online, it's so easy for guessing to become estimation, which turns into speculation, gets spun into rumor, and then is so grounded in common knowledge that it's a practical fact. </p>
<p>And I'm sure you're an honest person, but are you sure your "friend" (best friend? diver on the swim team? friend of a friend who you shared a joint with at a party? homeless man who wandered into the hallway?) got outright rescinded? Acceptance taken away, and that's that? And then Harvard said, "Okay, oops, you can come back?" Maybe he was simply warned or on some kind of "watch" or "probation" status.</p>
<p>I don't believe the Harvard story. Something about it doesn't sound right, haha.</p>
<p>No, I don't know anyone who has actually been rescinded.</p>
<p>But recently, my AP Lit teacher shared with us a collection of letters of rescinded admission from various colleges (and, since my teacher is a stickler for verifying that the resources we use for class are reliable, I know he went through the effort to make sure the letters he read us were real). The one that stood out the most was from UPenn. The student had gotten just a single D, but the letter used phrases such as "this is unacceptable" and "we are not impressed." They were revoking their offer of admission unless the student sent in a letter explaining any legitimate extenuating circumstances.</p>
<p>So, obviously, it happens. And at the top schools, even a single questionable grade can break things for you.</p>
<p>Who really slacks off so much as to get such poor grades at the end of senior year? I didn't know seniors during my high school career who got a D even if they were hit by a serious bout of senioritis, which is why I probably don't personally know anyone who was rescinded.</p>
<p>Your teachers showed you letters of rejected students (where did she get said letters?)...a single questionable grade can break you for a top school? Come on. More propaganda. I'm not saying your teacher is a liar, nor am I endorsing doing badly in school. All I'm saying is getting rescinded is like necrotizing fasciitis or the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq -- much discussed, heavily analyzed, rarely witnessed, possibly nonexistent. Also, consider Bigfoot.</p>
<p>I do not have personal knowledge of anyone who has had admission revoked, but I am confident that it HAS really happened. I wouldn't suggest tempting fate!</p>
<p>Back in the dark ages, when I was a senior, my best friend hated government (required for graduation), HATED our government teacher (the only teacher who taught that required class), and was more than done with high school by the time 2nd semester rolled around & she had to take government. She got a D --- and the teacher made it clear to her that it was actually a gift; he should have flunked her. It didn't make any difference to her chosen school (they didn't rescind offers back then, as far as I know). I am just sharing this story because I know for a fact that wonderful, straight-A students CAN and DO get so sick of high school that they get D's!</p>
<p>Well, necrotizing fasciitis is real. And, like having your admission rescinded, is not anything you want.</p>
<p>The other examples you gave -- I agree, just myths.</p>
<p>Yes, Theterminatior, was this really "a friend" -- someone you actually knew? And do you think he was being completely honest, or was he just bragging and being macho ("Yeah, they wanted me so much, they even rescinded their rescinding of my admission!") and giving you some bs stuff?</p>
<p>A student from my high school had his acceptance at Georgia Tech rescinded after slacking off and failing AP Calculus in the second semester of his senior year. Sucks for him; he's now at a community college.</p>
<p>My brother-in law was accepted ED at UVA and got a warning letter after he got two Cs. He pulled them up and was fine. This was, of course, about 20 some years ago!</p>
<p>They just ask for final transcripts though right? I mean, how do they even see our 2nd semester grades...</p>
<p>No, my son got an email 2 wks ago asking for mid-semester grades to be sent from school. There is a place for it in the online application site. You can submit online, I think, but they ask for official mid-term transcripts - I could be wrong, but I don't think it applies to international students. </p>
<p>Actually nearly all schools ask for trimester/midsemester grades to be sent by school.</p>
<p>Not a myth. A kid that I know personally got rescinded from UCSD for getting a D in his senior year math class. When they saw the grade they put his acceptance "on hold" and told him to retake the class over the summer and bring up the grade. He didn't do that and so his acceptance was revoked.</p>
<p>A classmate of mine got his UWashington acceptance revoked after getting a couple of C's and D's.</p>
<p>I know someone who got rescinded after getting arrested for a drinking violation..he had to go to community college for a year and then reapply.</p>
<p>There were several articles in our local paper about a student suing UNC for rescinding his acceptance after failing a class(es) after acceptance. He lost the suit.</p>