Now What?

<p>I have been accepted to my ED school (wesleyan) and now i'm not sure what I should do. What is the lowest one can let their grades drop without being noticed, or being thrown out? I want to try new ECs and relax a bit, but I'm not sure how much relaxing is too much. Its nice to learn without all the pressure on me, but I've been having trouble figuring this out what to do with my extra time.
This is a potential problem for all ED admits, so please post.</p>

<p>You should really maintain them high until your second semester, at which time you can let them slide a little in your 3r d quarter and then more in your fourth. If I were as lucky as you, I would start failing my classes (jk). Actually, you mught want to just chill back and relax slowly, so that it won't be as noticeable on your transcripts. ie dont make a big jump</p>

<p>that's cool, but I have been working incredibly hard for the past 3 1/2 years in high school. How bad would it look to get lots of B's, or at least more than I generally do(I usually get one or two)? Maybe even one C in a very difficult class. This would be on the midyear report. I just don't want to risk being denied admission from a school I already got in to.</p>

<p>I don't know much about admissions denial, but to me, it seems insane to put at risk the 3 1/2 years of hard work you must have spent to get into Wesleyan on the line rather than put forward a semester's worth of effort to maintain your grades.</p>

<p>Relax a bit, try new stuff, hang out more because the pressure is off, you're in. With that being said, don't do anything stupid like fail the big test or not do your HW because you have it made so don't blow it over something stupid. I recommend just spending a little less time on HW and then studying a lot for tests and you can probably coast with B-'s.</p>

<p>If I were in your position, I would relax a bit (don't be like omg i have to get an A), but I would still study and learn the material because I'm assuming you want to do well on AP exams and get credit.</p>

<p>Are you taking classes from teachers who recommended you? They'll understand a slight relaxation but just plunging into major slacking is no way to repay them, and makes their jobs much harder.</p>

<p>I'd read a warning at some help site for admission, and it said something like: "Don't let your grades drop your senior year, or your admissions offer may be revoked," or something. You still have to send in your final transcript, so it's best not to let anything slip, I think.</p>

<p>This is not the time to slack off. We have a close family friend whose son was accepted ED to William and Mary. Well, he thought his work was done, started to slack off, got a warning letter from W&M, either couldn't or wouldn't get his grades back up and two days after graduation got a letter saying that his acceptance had been revoked. It happened last year to a student at D's high school at Carnegie Mellon and more than a few students at JMU. I think I remember reading about a study that shows a direct correlation between slacking off senior year and poor perfomance for the freshman year in college.</p>

<p>Not surprising. People who's grades slip significantly after an aceptance are probably those who were going to school just for the grades anyway. It's a correlation, not causation.</p>

<p>Well I'll admit that I got a little lazy come end of the year, so I really didn't focus in a certain class which I didn't really care for, so I ended up with a B- for that marking period, and it didn't send any waves, so I think don't venture too far away from the norm and you should be fine.</p>

<p>whatever you do, make sure you do well on your AP exams. There are many kids who slacked off with senioritis and bombed the AP exams and now regret it in their freshman year of college.</p>

<p>I agree with icyfire. Do well on your AP exams and you could save yourself not only a lot of work in college, but also money by graduating early if you've taken a lot of AP's and done well enough.</p>

<p>Keep in mind that your acceptance, even an ED one is contigent on your successful completion of high school. There is an expectation that you continue to dothe same level of work you did when you were admitted. Like Atrmom stated policies do vary from school to school and there have been quite a few people right here on CC over the past few years whose admissions were revoked. </p>

<p>While this is not the case with you (as Wes only gives need blind FA) if a student is admitted with merit money, a senior slide can be grounds for revoking the scholarship because they no longer meet the criteria for the scholarship.</p>

<p>I think that you should aim to get A's in as many of your easy classes as possible. C's will be reviewed I can almost guarantee. If you get a few B's it'll be ok but don't be ridiculous. Let's be honest, it's not that hard to get a mix of A's and B's.</p>

<p>The 1st quarter of this year I got straight A+'s (usually I get around 3 A+'s in final grades), so it's really hard for me to maintan grades like those. My goal for 2nd semester is 3 b's and 2 a's; do you think that's too much of a drop from how I normally perform? (also, I was accepted to Stanford SCEA; I don't know if it has a reputation for revoking acceptances or not)</p>

<p>I was also accepted to my dream school ED, but there's no way I'm going to let my grades drop. I think it sort of says that you don't care now that you got in. Sure, relax a little more b/c the pressure and stress is off, but don't let your work slip. That is not fair to you, or the teachers who thought highly enough of you to write great recommendations. I don't think a B is the end of the world, but if your normal preformance is straight A's, I wouldn't make too many of them. I'm already experiencing a little senioritis like a lot of you, but don't go crazy. As for the above poster, Stanford is a fantastic school. Although I'm sure they cannot revoke you because of B's, slacking off can often be a downward spiral. You slack a little, and all of a sudden it's really easy to slack a little more. I wouldn't risk anything. Sure, don't go crazy pulling all-nighters just to make sure your test tomorrow goes perfectly, but I'd caution everyone to be careful. I'd hate to see someone's true colors come out to a college when things get a little out of hand and then be revoked. I can't imagine all my years of hard work being thrown down the toilet because I couldn't stick it out a couple more months. Just something to think about... congrats again on both of you getting in!</p>

<p>i'm going to just do the homework, study a little for tests and that should be fine.
but i'm not going to over-study for tests... i used to study way ahead of time and make up ridiculous question sheets and whatnot.</p>

<p>I was accepted ED to my first choice last year. I had straight A's in the first semester and 4 B's, 2 A's in the second semester. This year, I am at my ED first choice school =) </p>

<p>ENJOY! RELAX!! Take some hard earned time off. But not too much time off.</p>

<p>What if you wanted to drop an EC? Would colleges frown on that and do you have to notify them? It's probably not ethical so I wouldn't do that but I'm just wondering.</p>