<p>Joycelene---seek out help from your school's math club (Mu Alpha Theta)--that has a tutoring group, ask for help from a math guru in your school (someone good in Calculus)--find out if your teacher has tutoring or extra help time. We (barely) lived through D#2's 1st semester Pre-Calc class...(block scheduling) and had a party when it was over and she squeaked out a B. Her sister is the resident math/science geek, and I was beating my head against the wall of how little sister could be getting D's on tests and not asking big sis for help. Well, we figured out that they'd scratch each other's eyes out if they worked too closely together, so we recruited D#1's friends to help if sis really got stumped, and she regularly had either a tutor or her teacher check over her homework assignments before a quiz or test. I think she finally recognized that by doing MORE problems than were assigned in the homework also helped out. Not fun, but it will bring up your grades.</p>
<p>I also heard that if you skipped a lot of school days, they will rescind you.
And about grades, just maintain a 3.0 unweighted gpa!!</p>
<p>It certainly can happen. Here's one case:</p>
<p>Girl in a wheelchair got accepted to Harvard. She had the highest GPA in her class. But because her GPA was artificially inflated since she didn't have to take gym, she was named the "co-valivictorian" with two other classmates. She didn't like this, sued the school, and won. She then won the loathing of everyone in the town, and because everyone hated her, she skipped out on her duty as valivictorian and didn't deliver the commencement speech.</p>
<p>But because of this ridiculous suit, Harvard rescinded the offer.
Of course this is extreme, no one on this forum is greedy like that I don't think...</p>
<p>The story that zippo posted wasn't exactly how it went. The student wasn't in a wheelchair, but had some unspecified, alleged illness that allowed her to do tons of volunteer work and skip taking gym while taking all AP courses without having to physically go to high school. She got national attention after suing to become the sole valedictorian. </p>
<p>As a result of that national attention, she lost her Harvard acceptance after she was found to have plagiarized from professional newspapers articles that she had published. Her name was Blair Hornstein, and one can easily Google to find the story, which I also think has been liked to on this thread.</p>
<p>Shucks. Next year, my senior year, I plan on taking the hardest course load I;ve ever taken (5 APs, 3 electives, and 1 mandatory class). I was kind of hoping to kick ass (like I have my Junior and Sophmore year) the first semester (hopefully getting into my dream school ED, and slacking off the rest of the year. Not getting, like, 70s or even 60s, I was thinking about low 90s, maybe even dip into the 80s. Will that hurt a student who has had an unweighted average of 97?</p>
<p>I got a D in AP english 1st semester and im scared admissions will rescind me. unfortunately, ive been through some tough circumstances back at home with my mother's health.
overall grade is : 1 b, 2 c (one of them being a college speech course), 3 a, and 1d....
i know i will be able to do better this semester. to make up for the D, i am planning on making it up by taking expository composition to maintain 8 semesters of english.</p>
<p>will i still be rescinded? im scared...</p>
<p>i do not understand ucla's rule:<a href="http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Applicant/changes.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.admissions.ucla.edu/Applicant/changes.htm</a>
my academic courses will be changed bcus i will be getting the expository eng. class, and dropping a service class that is not a-g required. but it mentions nothing about notifying them about a grade of D. and i am not sure which email to use to sen them my problem...</p>
<p>this goes for ucsd as well. where can i notify them about my grade of d and class change?</p>
<p>id like your help, thank you..</p>
<p>Does anyone know where Blair Horstine ended up going to college? I've read a lot about her online, including her entire Wikipedia page, and I've always sort of wondered that. She certainly was talented, regardless of the plagiarism accusations.</p>
<p>^^I heard a rumor she ended up at Northwestern, but I have idea whether that is correct.</p>
<p>bump please</p>
<p>nobodyjay,
Instead of hijacking someone else's thread,you should start your own. More people also will see your question that way, too.</p>
<p>nobodyjay, my gc said that if you get a D you should also write them in letter (just in case) in addition to email, that you had received a D. To make yourself sound better, you should write that you got a D, and say what you will do to fix it (AKA the expository composition). Do not try to invite the pity party and give 100 reasons why you got a D. One sentence saying that "ive been through some tough circumstances back at home with my mother's health" is fine. But nothing about "my teacher sucked" or "the grading system sucked" etc etc etc. </p>
<p>As for being rescinded, I have no idea as I do not know anyone personally that has ever actually been rescinded.</p>
<p>i had my admission rescinded from rutgers and right now am at a community college . withdrew from 4 classes my senior year and that did it . certified mail in early august saying im out .</p>
<p>I knew someone in my Precalculus Honors class (when I was a sophomore) and she was a senior. She either got a D or dropped the class or some kind of combination of the two and her admission from UCLA was rescinded. I remember this because she kept coming to our class crying to the teacher about whether there was anything she could do about her bad grade.</p>
<p>Hm... I have an interesting question:</p>
<p>What if your grades were barely under a 3.0 (no D's just ONE C and the rest B's)
do you think the UC's will be as extreme as to drop you?</p>
<p>I heard that just a simple letter will prevent you from being rescinded.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that the goal of the UC's is to NOT rescind people and that they will do everything they can to keep us in.</p>
<p>You WON'T get rescinded until your GPA hits below like 3.0 and you have Ds and Fs. One D usually won't do it. One bad test grade or one missed assignment could land you with a D. And even if you screw up like that it's not a guarentee that they will rescind you.</p>
<p>What exactly is the percentage range for a "D"?</p>
<p>A D is 60-69%.</p>
<p>And for the UC's goal of not rescinding people - not true.</p>
<p>Recently, UCs (specifically UCLA/UCB) have been getting too many people accepting to go than expected (Colleges accept more, only because they expect a fraction of the admitted to actually accept. There is a word for it.. overpopulate? no.. well something like that). But basically, when it comes beginning of summer where people have to send in their final transcripts, they look especially for anyone with "bad grades" or class withdrawals to see if they can kick them out. (This is from my GC too...)</p>
<p>Of course, not to scare anyone, but I mean how hard is it to maintain a 3.0?</p>
<p>I'm a senior right now and I got a D in regular physics 1st semester of senior year. if I raise my grades 2nd semester is there still a chance that colleges will rescind a letter of acceptance? (ie UCLA, Cal, and all of the other UCs)</p>
<p>I think you'll be OK as long as your final transcripts show your improvement.</p>
<p>Are UCs weighted or unweighted? and I received 1 D last semester with a gpa of 2.8 however, I am guaranteed to raise my grade for that class.
does the 3.0 gpa mean 1st semester grades? or 2nd? because i got a 2.8, does that mean i will be rescinded?
what if youre rescinded, but you are improving for second semester? uc's havent looked at ur transcripts until in july, and admissions arent notified until march?</p>