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**Earlier this year, we were pleased to offer you admission to the entering first year class. This offer was extended to you contingent upon your continuing demonstration of the academic and personal qualities that led the committee to offer you admission to the university. A recent review of your grades showed a distressing decline in your academic performance.</p>
<p>Our experience is that students who have a serious decline in the final semesters in secondary school often have difficulty regaining motivation for the Challenging first year at -ts. In order to finalize your admission to the university , it is necessary for you to submit a letter explaining the decline in your academic record and addressing your readiness to pursue study at the university. Your letter should reach us within the next few weeks. The committee will meet to decide if your admission to the university will be continued. **
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<p>OMG I AM BEING RECINDED! From a top school in Boston(not harvard) what should i do! <em>cries</em></p>
<p>do whatever you can to pull your grades up by the end of the semester. if there’s a good reason your grades dropped (family stuff, severe illness, etc) let them know. there are a lot of posts around here with the same topic. look those up; they might be helpful.</p>
<p>I would get your counselor to write a letter, too. If it is one course that is really hard and/or the grading is notoriously low, that could help. Someone a few years back from my son’s school had to go meet with the Columbia staff to explain why she was getting a D in calculus. She was just NOT a math person. She did not lose her admission.</p>
<p>^I’m wondering that too. Colleges (from what I’ve read) won’t really rescind admission unless the grades of the admitted student drastically dropped. Assuming Skater Girl is going to Tufts, she likely had very high grades throughout her high school career and in her first semester of senior year. Let’s say these drop to Bs…No worries. But Cs and below can cause concern.</p>
<p>Skater Girl, remember that admission to these top colleges was fiercely competitive this year, and thousands of hopefuls were waitlisted. I’m sure Tufts wants to figure out their yield, and if they can admit a desperate waitlisted student who really wants to attend (who has maintained high grades and demonstrated interest) while dropping a student who hasn’t been working as hard as he/she could be (essentially not living up to the excellence Tufts originally appreciated)…Well, I think you get the picture. I’m NOT saying you have done this, but it happens. You just need to keep that in perspective.</p>
<p>What were your grades before? What are they now? Why did they drop?</p>
<p>It’s been a very competitive year and I’m assuming that there are a lot of waitlisted students because of that (especially if it’s a top school of Boston). </p>
<p>How much did your grades drop and why have they dropped? A very good letter to the college with a reasonable explanation will help you. Also, try to get your counselor to write a letter as well.</p>
<p>This is serious business to get a letter like this and you need to get the grade(s) back up. D has a friend that was rescinded ED at a top LAC. Student got the admission back during regular admission but went through huge efforts to do so. This student was having trouble with one course (D) and that affected several other classes (A’s down to B’s). The student had each teacher in the affected courses send a letter on his behalf where the teacher verified that the student was on the upswing again academically. Final thought-be honest. The student I mentioned talked about taking on too much extracurricular and not seeking out help in the class where he earned the D. The school appreciated his honesty and stated so in the deferral of his admission to RD.</p>
<p>How can you get rescinded in April? Does the high school send out weekly reports so the college can rescind you if you screw up on a single worksheet or something?</p>