<p>Anyone have any experience regarding how easily MIT will rescind an application? I haven't gotten a single B in all 4 years of my high school career -- is getting an 86 in a subject (dropping from like a 92) grounds for a rescind?</p>
<p>I want to know if you guys have any personal experiences.
Thanks!</p>
<p>I don’t have any experience with that, but I very highly doubt that breaking your 4.0 by a teeny bit (mine isn’t perfect, and I was accepted) is going to have a huge impact on admissions. I think they’re more worried about kids just screwing high school entirely and dropping their entire GPA by a few tenths of a point (a lot during one’s last semester).</p>
<p>I don’t think you have <em>anything</em> to worry about.</p>
<p>In four years on this board, I have never seen a story of an MIT admit being rescinded. What I’ve heard is that if you get a C or lower, they’ll send you a letter and ask you to explain yourself. And you probably don’t want to be in the situation where you’re defending yourself to admissions.</p>
<p>I absolutely do not think getting a single B is going to get you in trouble with MIT. If I recall correctly, I ended up with a B- in English second semester of my senior year and didn’t have any problems. </p>
<p>But ultimately, they’re looking for you not to slack off. Don’t slack off.</p>
<p>Okay, so this is a hypothetical:</p>
<p>You accept to go to MIT by May 1st and drop all other offers of admission. MIT notifies you after May 1st that your final grades are too low, and they rescind admission.</p>
<p>What happens then? Are you collegeless? :o</p>
<p>no, there’s community college, or a gap year before reapplying as a freshman. If there’s a later date for matriculation to another school you applied to, you can go there. Actually, just don’t get rescinded :)</p>
<p>I’m kinda in the same situation. Last term all of my grades except for BC Calc were above 90 (I got an 80 in calc). This term will probably be the same with the exception that my math grade with drop lower, like to a 70. This is my teacher’s first time with some BC material and he seems like he is teaching more to the board that to us. The class as a whole has been getting lower grades but he doesnt believe in curves so we all will end up wth sucky end of year grades expecially since he has been increasing the workload and not teaching what he gives us homework on. I have a Princeton review book that really sucks so I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations for books used to self study or just good review books in general. I am working my ass off for a crappy grade and I really dont want them to weed me out as one of the weak ones and rescind my admission.</p>
<p>BC calc should be pretty straightforward. Practice, practice and practice until it’s an innate skill.</p>
<p>If you don’t already have a textbook with odd problems answered, then I recommend buying a textbook (Stewart’s calculus is a standard one)</p>
<p>Unless you get multiple Ds and Fs, I HIGHLY doubt MIT will rescind your admission. You may get a letter asking you to explain yourself, but really, you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>However, I would recommend learning BC calc on your own. It’s pretty straighforward, like faraday said, and learning stuff on your own is a good skill to have. Your Princeton Review book may suck, but there are SOOO MANY other resources available.</p>
<p>the barron review book gives a wide variety of questions and has explanations to all the questions and actually has chapter reviews of all the ab and bc topics (you could basically teach yourself with this book)…would definitely recommend</p>
<p>If you are struggling to maintain a C in high school Calc then good luck next year at MIT. Just saying…</p>
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Folks, if you think about this, you will realize why actual examples of colleges rescinding admission are very, very, very hard to find. As mollie says, they don’t want you to slack off, so don’t slack off. But don’t work yourself up into a state either because you are having a problem in some course. I have heard of a few cases where people were required to do something remedial because of their senior-year grades, and a couple of actual recissions at state universities. It would have to be a really, really extreme case, probably involving some type of personal dishonesty, for MIT to rescind an admission after you had accepted.</p>
<p>LOL. Batllo, I’m trying. I have a bunch of other things on my plate.</p>
<p>I dont think there are any official policies but I dont think they are really looking to punish slackers by rescinding admissions, more likely they just want to be sure you will be up for an MIT courseload next year.</p>
<p>Oh, there are absolutely official policies. Most people don’t go totally off the cliff to the point that those policies need to be enforced, though.</p>
<p>would one C or D with the rest A’s be considered off the cliff?</p>
<p>If someone got a D, they would almost certainly need to explain this to the admissions office. </p>
<p>My understanding is that C’s would need to be explained as well.</p>
<p>In all seriousness, a C can’t be THAT easy to slip to, if you had an A average all along. The only case I could imagine this could be a legitimate issue is if you wind up with a particularly nasty beast of a teacher. And still, most of the potentially tough high school classes (for instance, depending on how much the given teacher decides to do, AP Physics could be very hard) will be a year long, and one would already have had exposure to the style.</p>
<p>People:
MIT isn’t going to see last week’s math tests. Remember what pains people were having to get the midyear transcripts (but we don’t get midyear grades until late January!) in the first place? Remember all those forms and the impossible high school bureaucracy? Yeah. There’s at least a thousand admits and Big Brother is not watching you that closely. This is high school. You have 5 million pieces of homework, quizzes and tests that make up your grade. MIT’ll see some final transcript at the end of the year and they won’t blink at a B.</p>
<p>The only case of rescinded admissions I heard of word of mouth happened at another school where the admitted student abandoned his host, got terribly (and illegally) drunk at some party and returned to defecate on the host’s floor.
And don’t sue to become valedictorian, either.</p>