<p>"Recently we received your final grades for the senior year and regret
to note the serious decline in your academic performance. This serious matter has been brought before the Grade Review Committee for a decision regarding the possibility of revoking your admission."</p>
<p>now I need to write a letter to explain my bad senior grade.
lets see
1 D
1 C
3 Bs</p>
<h2>1 A</h2>
<p>2.67 GPA (my overall Michigan GPA was 3.20)</p>
<p>god, I hope I don't get into trouble, or revoked.....</p>
<p>be accountable
be honest
and grovel appropriately.</p>
<p>You need to let them know that you ARE still the promising student they admitted. I don't know what happened--maybe your schedule was tough, maybe you slacked off, but you need to account for it.</p>
<p>Happened to one of my friends. Due to scheduling conflicts he got placed into higher calculus than he was capable of, and was under some kind of medication that had depression as a side effect. He still got in.</p>
<p>meh, I was just pure slacking off.
Actually, I was going to go to a different college where they rarely revoked a student and had much more lower average GPA/much more lower rank in USnews. So I didn't try that hard to maintain my GPA. Now June came, and I got accepted off the waitlist from Michigan (which I wasn't expecting at all) so I changed to Michigan. The thing is my average GPA was 3.20 and even one semester for my junior year, I had 2 Cs and couple Bs, so 1D,1C, and 2.67 isn't a "significantly declined" GPA to me.....</p>
<p>In that case, you pretty much need to beg for forgivness, be truthful about it, and state that this type of performance will never happen again. Your GPA did decline quite a bit from a 3.2 to a 2.67 (whether you want to admit it or not). Yes, they accepted you off of the waitlist. However, when they did this, they also assumed that you kept up your GPA throughout the entire senior year so you need to take responsibility for the drop in your GPA.</p>
<p>Sorry about your situation. I was slacking off after my AP tests too but the classes were so easy that my grades didn't go down a bit. Lucky me. I miss the ease of high school.</p>
<p>Well, the slacking off isn't great, but being honest about it counts for something. The thing is you need to make sure they know that you ARE capable, and you CAN handle a tough schedule, and you ARE driven. Not getting into Michigan (at first) and making plans to attend a different school may have eaten into some of your motivation, that much you can say.</p>
<p>However, I wouldn't justify it to Michigan by saying that you didn't think grades would matter to the lesser school. Whether or not grades mattered to that institution, your senior year was still preparing you for college work. By blowing it off, you were blowing off some of your preparation for that place (and, as it turns out, for Michigan). Having a cavalier attitude about preparation is not a good thing. I think reeses414 is dead on.</p>
<p>very true. I wrote that I spent some more time on my hobbies and friends than I usually did and how I really plan to try hard at Michigan (I really do lol), etc etc.....</p>