<p>It happened to my brother. Seriously, on August 1, we received a letter that his admissions was being rescinded, and thankfully Drew University said they were still accepting applications, so he went there, with a $10k scholarship (probably would have been a lot more if he hadn't applied so late) and had the time of his life. The school he was originally planning on attending, Rutgers University, is not even a very prestigious school and he had been accepted into the Honors College there. Then, without any prior warning, on August 1, we received a letter, saying that his entire admissions had been rescinded. They didn't simply drop him from the Honors College, but refused him admission entirely. And we called the school, many times, to plead, to explain, to offer references, to do anything at all possible. All to no avail. They would not take him after seeing his senior year grades. He had dropped his AP Psychology course, and because he had dropped it so late in the year, it automatically became an DSF: dropped subject: failure. There were some other classes he did not so well in, none that he failed, but some other low grades in his electives. All these bad grades were in his elective courses. His basic subjects- English, government, economics, science- he was doing very well in. Yet all of a sudden, we are told that his admissions is being taken back, and with school out for the summer, it was pretty near impossible to contact the principal of the high school or anything like that to help out with things. He was an immensely overqualified student, national merit semifinalist, 1550 on the SAT, director/writer of several student productions, and awesome recommmendations. Yet a slight plummet in grades- mind you, his overall GPA for that semester was still like a B- was enough to take back the offer of admission to the Honors College from a school that frankly, is not all that selective in the first place. He called up several of the schools that he had applied to and been accepted at, and even though he had said no to them, and even though they got his grade report too, they were totally fine with reactivating his acceptance. They would have taken him back in a heartbeat. But not Rutgers. Well, at the time, he was devastated because he really wanted to be close to his girlfriend who was attending Rutgers, so he began looking frantically for schools in New Jersey or nearby that he could still apply to, even though, like I said, the other schools had no problem with taking him back. He found Drew University, applied there in a rush and was admitted, offered a $10,000 per year scholarship, some financial aid, and a laptop (standard for all attending students). So he went there. It all worked out in the end. But can I say, August was NOT a pleasant month in my house. Not in the least. It sucked. Schools can be really capricious and unpredictable sometimes, and the way that it happened was just the strangest thing ever. But it DOES happen from time to time. It's not a myth. It's just the frequency of how often it happens that is, shall we say, overexaggerated.</p>