<p>I was accepted earlier this year with grades of straight A's in 6 courses and a B in Chemistry 12. I closed off my senior year with Calculus going from A -> B (final mark) and Chem 12 going from B -> C (final mark) and still final grades of A's in everything else. </p>
<p>I received an email today basically saying that they "regret to note the serious decline in your academic performance" and requested a letter of explanation. The truth is that I made a mistake of not balancing my athletic life with my academic one and I sent a letter basically saying that. Obviously, this is a fault of my own so there was no supporting documents to send to them as proof... Just an admittance of my mistake.</p>
<p>However, after a bit of research on the internet, a lot of people have been saying that one C should not be enough to be rescinded... </p>
<p>Could someone tell me what is going on and if I should be worried? Is it that common to receive these letters or is 1 B and 1 C that serious? Is it likely that I will be put on Academic Probation?</p>
<p>Note: I am a Canadian citizen with US permanent residency. (if that helps to explain the situation)</p>
<p>First, I am very surprised. I was actually deferred, got a C in a class 1st semester senior year of HS, and then was accepted after sending those grades in. I’m inclined to believe it was a mistake of some sort somewhere in the chain between U of M and your high school. Just explain the minor grade drop (classes are difficult, other commitments, whatever) I guess and I’m pretty sure you’ll be okay.</p>
<p>I remember one of my good friends getting a letter like this right after posting a 4.0 semester; obviously a mistake. Honestly I don’t think you should have gotten that email to begin with.</p>
<p>I have failed to mention a crucial component…
The grading systems are different in Canada and the US.
So Chemistry 12 grades - Canadian/American (respectively)
Term 1 - 83% - B/B
Term 2 - 69% - C+/D
Term 3 - 54% - C-/F
Final - 66% - C/D</p>
<p>I checked my other grades and nothing else is lower than B’s. So in the end 1A, 5B, 1D in the American grading system.</p>
<p>Is this the reason why I had gotten this letter?
I used this as a reference to the grading system: <a href=“Grade - Wikipedia”>Grade - Wikipedia;
<p>Well, reading a bunch of other posts on the internet, 1 D (in the american grading system) will get me rescinded. Now I’m wondering if this applies even though I have always been in the Canadian (british columbia) grading system.</p>
<p>Yeah the one D may have been the red flag… although that depends on how Michigan converts the grades. I do remember reading somewhere on the Michigan website that said any D’s and/or F’s will put you at risk of having your acceptance rescinded. I think if you wrote a letter explaining your situation, you’ll be fine. You just have to say that you acknowledge the decline and you’ll step it up in college.</p>
<p>Sorry to hear that happened, must’ve been scary. I did absolutely no work second semester and walked away with an ugly 3.0 (3 A’s, 1 B, 3 C’s), and they sent me an email that essentially said that they had noted my decline in grades, were disappointed in me, and they wanted me to talk with my counselor about the decline in grades at orientation. At the time I received the email, it had been about 5-6 weeks since I’d been to orientation…anyways, lesson learned for both of us. For future UM admits, getting a C or even two is probably fine, stay away from 3 and absolutely stay away from Ds and Fs. I think I was borderline for receiving a warning about getting rescinded, and I’m guessing that was because I had an A and a B in two AP classes (Gov and Calc AB) so they must’ve assumed there was absolutely no way I had done absolutely nothing all semester.</p>
<p>The fact that you admitted that it was your fault, you did not try and blame your teacher, your school etc. was good. The warning letter was just a sort of wake up call.</p>