A senior at my high school emailed a college admissions office accusing a classmate of some false allegations (with no evidence). The college hasn’t yet decided if it will rescind that student’s admission or not.
Of course, there are instances where colleges had good reason to rescind. Harvard in the recent past rescinded admission of kids saying racist/xenophobic things online.
But I think in this case someone was just jealous and decided to try to drag someone else down. This worries me as a junior that will be dealing with admissions results next year.
Do you think highly selective colleges may choose to rescind based on allegations classmates email in?
Should I think about not telling others what colleges I apply to or get in to because of jealous classmates?
It depends. Is there a reason your classmates would be jealous should you tell them which schools you’ve been accepted to? The thing I think you aren’t saying, and which I am reading between the lines, is that you feel that someone may try to sabotage you at some point. Have you had some kind of issue with classmates that could warrant retaliation? If so, then stay quiet about where you plan to go to college. Not that there is a real risk of a college rescinding you due to a rumor, but because you can probably save yourself some stress.
Really strange statement. Are you so close to this situation that you know the college is actually investigating and trying to decide? That would be very unusual.
If you think this is the case because nothing has happened then you are mistaken. Most likely nothing has happened because the college has completely ignored it. I doubt very much they are trying to decide anything.
I can entirely see selective admissions offices consistently dealing with sabotages. I just never hear about it online or in the news, and wasn’t sure of how they went about dealing with it.
It seems they rescind for social media posts and other obvious red flags (as they should). But, going off of what you said, they don’t concern themselves with mere rumors at all and there’s nothing for an honest student to be worried about.
They know that my grades, GPA, SAT, AP scores, etc. are some of the highest in our class (not to brag, and because they ask me). Most kids are supportive, but there is the odd one that may be competitive/jealous.
There are a couple classmates that don’t like me; everyone else would be supportive/indifferent. I appreciate your advice—I think it may be the best for me to stay quiet and learn from the headaches others have encountered.
You make a good point. I did not word that as well as I could have—I do not know what happened in this situation. Hearing the thoughts here, they likely did ignore it.
That was sort of my question to everyone here! I suppose the takeaway should be there’s nothing to fear when it comes to allegations from jealous classmates, but learn from others and save myself the headaches by keeping quiet about college choices.