@eh1234, Temple weighted his gpa a bit. If they had just used the school’s weighted gpa he would have gotten full tuition. As it was, they probably added a point and a half or two to his UW GPA.
Just wanted to report something funny D said earlier in the car…
She was talking to me about college plans, and the possibility of grad school later…
She said (and I quote), “What if I grow up a lot in the next four years?”
Now, there’s an idea!
@BeeDAre Did you say "It’s not a matter of if, but when "
Hi everyone, I’m new to this thread, and after reading through, sounds like my S16’s experiences are very similar with other students in this group. He applied to three in-state public schools since he knew he wanted to go to 4-year college to study computer science, but didn’t have any schools in mind except the flagship university in our state, which would have been a reach for him. Fortunately, he managed to apply early and received 2 acceptances from other state schools, and one deferral from EA to RD, so we are happy he has 2 good options.
Problem now is that he overextended when he registered for senior classes last spring and so he’s struggling in AP Calculus and Psychology…and I’m worried that if his grades are too low the schools might rescind their offers of admission :(. I’m hoping he can get a C in Calculus and that it won’t be an issue for the two schools that admitted him. In Psychology, I’m hoping he can get his grade up to a B so that there’s only 1 C on the semester transcript. He’s of course scrambling now to bring up the Calculus grade, but I wish he would have started scrambling before the last week of the semester! (this is his typical pattern)
I am wondering if any of you have heard of students’ acceptances being rescinded due to C’s or D’s in senior year? He’s got a few Cs in 9th and 10th grade, but did really well in 11th grade (has 3.3 UW GPA). I’m really hoping low grades in 2 AP classes don’t lead to problems with the acceptances :(.
I look forward to keeping in contact with this thread - hard to believe it’s already graduation year! Good luck to all of your families with the admissions process, and congratulations to those who have already received acceptances and financial aid offers :)!
@lifegarding I don’t have any advice, but I can definitely empathize. My D had her best grades ever the first quarter (one B, a B+ and the rest A/A-). This quarter, she is clearly not working very hard and I actually haven’t even looked at her grades recently - she’s 18 and I need to let it go. I would not be surprised if she finishes the year with at least one C. She did get accepted with three C/C+ grades on her transcript, so I don’t think it should be a deal-breaker, but I just don’t know.
If things go downhill, I guess I’ll have her check in with her admissions counselor. I don’t know if they can give a completely straightforward answer to questions about senior year grades or not since I would imagine that decisions to rescind are made at a higher level. My D’s boyfriend got an unfriendly - “Hey, we didn’t really like your final transcript” letter from his in-state school over the summer, but they didn’t rescind his admission or put him on academic probation or anything.
Your son’s guidance counselor might have some insight if a lot of kids apply to the same in-state schools.
Thanks @eh1234, hearing that my S is not the only one with slipping grades does help. I think when I mentioned to S that schools might take back their acceptances if he gets a D, he got worried enough that he’s been going to his Calculus teacher to review for the past few days…but of course there’s only 4 class days left so it might be too little, too late. We’ve been in this boat before in 9th and 10th grade, but last year he did so much better that I didn’t expect him to fall back into this pattern.
I did ask my son’s counselor and he seemed to think that it wouldn’t be an issue, but a different counselor at his school told me that S should meet with his teacher every day to bring the grade up and not slip to a D. My son’s CG is not always great at knowing information like this, so I usually have to ask another CG at the school 
One upside of college is that there aren’t honors/AP versions of classes - he signs up for higher levels than he should take sometimes just because his more academically-focused friends are taking them. Oh well, one way or the other we’ll know how things turn out by late January since the semester ends soon… I hope your D’s grades are okay at the end of this quarter!
My D will very likely get a C (or 2) this semester, in either AP Gov* or AP Stats. Both have huge amounts of daily homework and D is trying to keep up, but struggling… I’m not too worried about it, myself, because she was admitted to her colleges with some Cs on her transcript already (I think she got 4 Cs junior year and one in sophomore…)
My thinking is:
- like I said, they saw her transcript and know already she occasionally pulls a C;
- the Cs are in two challenging AP courses
- she applied to schools where her ACT score is well above the median, and at two, she’s in the top 5% for scores. I’m hoping that counts for something.
In other words, she didn’t aim for very selective schools…
so I think it depends on the school.
If your son applied to very selective schools, then I’d look into what their policies are… But, otherwise, as long as his grades do not drop SIGNIFICANTLY, it may not be an issue.
D is also studying diligently, I know, and doing the best she can, given time constraints and lack of sleep - and I’m trying to not overwhelm her. She performs better when she’s not overwhelmed or under lots of pressure. At the beginning of the semester, she had some senioritis creeping in, but in the past few weeks, she’s switched over to serious get 'er done mode, and I hope she can sustain that for a while. Thankfully, the one class that’s really giving her trouble, AP Gov, is ending soon.
*AP Gov shouldn’t be that hard, you’d think, but apparently, 3/4 of the class is pulling a C or D. !!! I have heard D and her friends talk about this class, they have the same teacher, and apparently the kids are just confused, constantly, about what will be on the test, and how to study for it. I feel for them but don’t know what to do about it. I told D, sometimes you get teachers who don’t teach all that well, and you just have to figure out a way to work around it. Just make sure you understand the material in the text and pull at least a C, then you can move on…
(Honestly, I don’t even know why D took this class. She could’ve taken Social Science Survey, for the grad requirement, but there is peer pressure among the kids on the college prep lane to take the hardest classes possible, and as many as possible as they can handle. It drives me crazy. I’m not even sure she’ll get college credit for this course… Hopefully, the next semester, MacroEcon will be better and they have a different teacher.
I told my H, given D’s penchant for taking hard classes and struggling, I’m surprised she didn’t insist on applying to Northwestern or University of Chicago, so she could go in at the bottom of the class, smh. Thankfully, she applied to schools where she’s probably in the top quarter or ten percent, so I’m hoping she can get better grades in college, and also take classes that interest her more. She seems to do better in those. )
I agree with @BeeDAre . I don’t think that C’s will be a serious problem at this point for our kids. Maybe for those at the lottery schools, but my S already has plenty of C’s on his transcript and some good acceptances already. I do worry if we get into D territory (a possibility). But I am trying my best to lower my stress level.
thanks @BeeDAre and @crowlady. I have the same thought that if they already accepted him knowing he’d gotten about 4-5 C’s in earlier grades, then getting 1-2 more in AP classes should not be enough to cause a problem. I am really hoping we don’t have to worry about the grades dropping below a C, though. Neither school is very selective - their admittance rates are low but I think that’s because students with higher GPAs/test scores typically don’t apply to them. It will be nice to wrap up 1st semester and start fresh for the final one!
I finally sneaked a peek at my D’s grades and she has all Bs and a couple of B- grades despite being lazy this quarter. But, she’s only taking one AP (she didn’t last very long in AP Stats and knew that was going to be miserable, even though she withdrew from it with a low B )
UMN seems to give a lot of warnings about keeping grades up, and her course load is not that difficult, so I have stressed that she should really try to avoid having Cs (at least as a semester/final grade). Plus, this kid has never studied for a final and sometimes gets Cs or Ds on those. (Two of the C grades on her transcript are for classes where she had a solid B before the final!)
Like some of your kids, most of the schools on her list are not very selective and her ACT score is in at least the top 25%, even if the GPA is in the bottom half or right around the median. I’m still trying to get her to finish another application or two since she doesn’t have any strong feelings about which school she would actually want to attend and I feel like more options would be better.
In today’s mail: D was accepted to Florida A&M with a $5000 renewable merit scholarship. They’re willing to reconsider her for the next higher scholarship level if she retakes the ACT and scores one point higher.
This may explain the email we got from them earlier in the week wherein they strongly suggested she retake her ACT/SAT. I just assumed it was a prelude to rejecting her based on a mediocre ACT. Nice to be wrong in this case!
Yay, @petrichor11! Nice for your D to have her own merit award. Congratulations…and good luck with the ACT.
Great news @petrichor11 . It’s worth that retest . DS16 had to do the same thing to reach next highest merit.
D just got accepted to Indiana - Bloomington today! Of course, she applied too late for merit, but I’m excited because it’s “only” 600 miles away!
D16 has 11th acceptance to Marquette University - I think… she got an email this morning that read congratulations on your acceptance into Marquette University, now we will start the second step and review your application for our direct admit BS/DPT program and let you know by mid-February. So I think that she was accepted for an undergraduate BS degree in Clinical Laboratory Science because she had to choose an undergraduate major of her choice and then mark that she was interested in BS/DPT and submit an additional essay.
Weird thing is that they said the only send out their acceptances via regular mail. We haven’t received anything. A classmate had received her acceptance (Engineering) in the mail on Saturday so we figured D16 had been denied. Hoping something shows up in the mail in the next few days.
I am absolutely convinced our mailperson hordes mail because it comes in spurts, one day nothing and the next the mailbox is full and considering that I have a D16 and a D18 and the volume of college related mail we get would seem to imply there is not a day that should go by without some mail. I know I had to call U of Ptt to resend her acceptance letter because we had not received it nearly 3 weeks after the email acceptance. Weird we got the “second” letter and the next day the original letter of acceptance arrived, pre-opened. Wondering were the Marquette letter is?
Just waiting on one more decision (Ithaca College) called them yesterday and they said in was in with the admission committee “right now”.
Congrats @labegg
Congrats @labegg! That’s a lot of acceptances to sort through. Mine has only been accepted to a few and my head is already spinning a little bit figuring out next steps.
Current goal is to get her to make her ID for FAFSA if she is ever at home for more than 10 minutes. She had her wisdom teeth out yesterday and is out running around as of this afternoon.
I can’t shake the feeling that my D16 still hasn’t found “the right” school, but I guess we’ll see. I think she finished 7 applications (but 3 of them were on a whim to schools she probably wouldn’t actually go to). She only applied to one school that she visited so that might be why things feel. . .unsettled.
WARNING - one last time posting about an app decision because it always seems like when I post the next day we get a decision…
Waiting on last EA decision from Ithaca College BS/DPT. I have given up hope that she has been accepted. EA decisions have been rolling out since early December. (Dec 1 was the deadline) D16 had her app and supporting material submitted October 2. So they’ve had her stuff 3.5 months. Lots of BS/DPT acceptances so far on the Ithaca MyPeers Portal. Her Application portal still reads applied and she can still access the MyIthaca Portal and the MyPeers forum, everyone over in the Musical Theater thread says that their MyIthaca Portal goes dead if there is a denial. D16 called early last week and asked if a decision had been mailed yet and was told her app was in committee “right now”. But seriously nearly 4 months?..you either want her or you don’t. All EA decisions are supposed to be out by Feb 1. At this rate she may as well have applied RD!
OK thanks for the rant, hoping my superstitious - ness works and we get a decision in the next day or two!
No problem whatsoever from my perspective on posting anything and everything about app decisions.
If posting means that your D will get a decision the next day, then please post away.
Waiting is excruciating so anything to get the decisions to come in is ok to do.
Congrats on the BS/DPT acceptances so far.
My superstitions may actually not be so superstitious, while we did not receive the final decision from Ithaca College, we did received a financial aid/merit notification letter from one of the schools that she has been accepted to, one more piece of the puzzle!