<p>University of Washington seems to be serious about rescinding admissions. I found this article in the Seattle Times about it:
<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003286270_uwadmissions03m.html%5B/url%5D">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003286270_uwadmissions03m.html</a></p>
<p>I personally know of an admission to UCI being withdrawn after the student failed government.</p>
<p>hahaha 'homeless man who wandered into the hallway" dude thats my friend youre talking about.</p>
<p>i think its a myth. all these stories are actually made up.</p>
<p>The guidance office in my school has warning letters (which are practically rescindance letters unless you have extenuating circumstances) posted on the walls to scare people haha</p>
<p>So yea it does happen</p>
<p>Listen. I realize that admissions do get revoked but you have to show a significant drop in more than one class. If you get A's and B's throughout high school and then you get one C in a hard class, your acceptance will not be revoked. However, if you get all A's and B's and then get all C's and D's with an occasional B, you have a problem. Basically all you need to do is maintain an average above a low B and you will be fine. Colleges don't place that much weight on one semester of grading.</p>
<p>It does happen. I don't know exact numbers, but believe at Univ. of Michigan it is typical for 12 students to have their admissions rescinded (out of a class of abourn 5000). Many more may be warned, but successfully make their case and are allowed to enroll as planned.</p>
<p>I think you're right to be skeptical, but given the difficulty in estimating the likelihood of rescindment (because as far as I know few colleges release this information, and because it largely varies from school to school) it's of course always good to err on the side of caution.</p>
<p>My Economics teacher always told the class (we were all seniors) "apply to colleges early and then after you get accepted you can slack off and enjoy the rest of the year" umm?</p>
<p>heres the thing... if you get into top flight universities, you can usually get by on natural smartness and pull Cs... if you cant your really trying to do poorly</p>
<p>the rule that ive heard from most places is dont let ur GPA drop 1.5 poins below your gpa when you got accepted, and dont geet anything less than C... that will obviously vary at various universities, but its a good rule... dont get Ds, a few Cs max and dont let your GPA plummet</p>
<p>A lot of people from my school have started freshman year of college on probation because of poor academic performance second semester. No one has actually been rescinded but a lot of them have been warned and/or put on probation. </p>
<p>Also, one of my friends this year (senior) got a letter from Emory saying she would get her acceptance rescinded if she did not switch back into Honors Physics. (She dropped from Honors to Regular)</p>
<p>I don't think it's a myth at all but it's not as common as teachers and counselors make it seem/</p>
<p>My best friend was rescinded last year.</p>
<p>All I have to say is: Remember Blair Hornstine</p>
<p>1570/1600 SAT score, valedictorian, tons of awards and ECs, but got her offer of admission rescinded at Harvard because of plagarism.</p>
<p>Dude its true, my cousin's, best friend's, dog-walkers daughter's ex-boyfriend got resinded from berkely</p>
<p>That's gonna suck.</p>
<p>Plagiarism in a class or for her essay or what?</p>
<p>What are you calling a myth??? People get rescinded all the time from the top colleges. All it takes is for a valedictorian student to make that one slip in an 6 AP course schedule. </p>
<p>And yes, a fellow student in my Japanese class got their admissions rescinded from UCI because she got a D in Calculus and ditched school too many times. Now she works at a Korean video store for Californian minimum wage. </p>
<p>Why don't you stop denying the truth and make sure YOU don't screw up your own grades. All that denial is just making you look dumb. What do you want, a Congress approved government report, along with dozens of sob story documentaries to help you take in the truth???</p>
<p>i think it's very hard for a college to rescind you because it'll get really really complicated. however, they still can.</p>
<p>i think we should relax and stuff but still pay attention in class and do the work. it's so easy to get Cs (forget to turn in homework, fail a test or two) and let those slide... to Ds... then you're in trouble.</p>
<p>For the University of California system, I remember hearing that if you get an unweighted GPA of 3.0 or less in your senior year they'll consider rescinding you. I believe that's both semesters combined. So let's say you get 3 B's and 2 A's in your first semester...if you then get 1 D, 2 C's, a B, and an A in second semester, then you should end up getting rescinded.</p>
<p>Do I know anyone who was rescinded? Not offhand. But most colleges do end up rescinding at least a few people. To get rescinded, though, you have to have done some really bad stuff.</p>
<p>for those of us not going to the Ivies, just keep a 3.0 gpa or higher and all will be fine.</p>
<p>i think as long as you keep working decently hard, you should be fine. i agree with what most other people have said. i'm sure it happens but not often. it's real though. my physics teacher told my class that he would write to our schools if we were slacking off and he's the kind of guy who's serious about that.</p>
<p>I personally know three people who have gotten rescinded. Two were due to low grades, so UCLA and Cal rejected them. As for the other one, well, he never really got his high school diploma in the end, so...</p>
<p>And yes, it does happen, the people I mentioned above are all attending community colleges wishing that they could've done better during second semester senior year. Don't let senioritis eat you!</p>