<p>Hi, I was happy enough to receive a letter of acceptance to Stanford this year, and still, the stress and fear manage to come back into my life somehow.</p>
<p>This second semester senior year, I managed to procrastinate and pull off 1 A, 3 B's, and 1 C+.</p>
<p>The C+ I am extremely sure is a mistake, due in part to a style of grading, and perhaps to a missing assignment. I've already emailed the teacher about the error, but I cannot review or change my grade until the school year starts. </p>
<p>I have already received the dreaded letter which says that they are concerned with my overall downward trend in my grades, including a C. </p>
<p>I was just wondering, whether I should just explain to them that the grade is a mistake, and that I will fix it up when my high school year starts, or if I should just go ahead and apologize for everything.</p>
<p>If anyone else had similar stories, please don't hesitate to reply, and thanks for reading.</p>
<p>well if you haven't been officially rescinded yet, then wouldn't you be safe? Isn't the fall semester starting soon so you could just go. Why would you bother clearing out the mistake with your school next yera, wouldn't you already be at stanford by then?</p>
<p>My advice is to do it in a manner that makes you seem responsible. Don't appear to be making excuses, just explain the situation rationally and concisely. Explain about the mistake, but in a way that creates an image of someone who owns up to the reality that things happen.</p>
<p>i'd reply that you too are just as surprised with your grade given the history of test grades all semester (perhaps stress your interest in the subject) - and let them know that you intend to clarify the mistake once school reopens.
good luck at stanford!</p>
<p>Errmm... if you were accepted this year, then you have already graduated, didn't you? IMO, you're as good as in if they haven't already rescinded you.</p>
<p>I don't think they've rescinded you, and I'm not sure that it would be worth your time and energy to go back and "fix up" the record in high school. I would write back admitting that you let your grades fall, but that this has made you more interested in, and look forward to, learning and studying at Stanford.</p>
<p>As a Stanford grad, I would expect that this letter is a precursor to your freshman advisor (assuming they still have them) taking great care in overseeing your first quarter. that the advisor will take that into account when he/she approves your course selection for Fall Quarter. I would imagine they would advise you to not overload yourself, for example with 20 quarter units as I did, in light of the difficulty you had.</p>
<p>If the way Stanford treats already enrolled students is any indication, you are in ZERO peril of being rescinded.</p>
<p>Look at the dates people. Myarmin posted on 7-13-2007, and the next post was yesterday by heehee, so basically this thread was dead, and now brought back the life.</p>