<p>Been in touch with cornell ever since my final report went in... accepted with 5 A's and 1 b, dropped AP Calc and ended the year w/ 2 C's and 3 B's. This **** happens guys, I'm kinda beat up but it means i get to go to my local private w/ nearly full tuition. </p>
<p>If you guys take away anything from this, don't slack off as much as I did...not really worth it.</p>
<p>end of PSA</p>
<p>wait, so you were actually rescinded?</p>
<p>yeah. w/ my school’s grading system (I had like all b- and c- grades) my gpa dropped from a 3.9 to a 2.2…I think a teacher sent in a letter to retract his rec too, in his class I was nearing a D</p>
<p>No way… Oh ****, I’m sorry man.</p>
<p>i’m so sorry.
wow, your teacher actually retracted his recommendation?
but i guess at this point, all you can do is look at the positive side- full tuition!
and who knows! you might be able to transfer back!</p>
<p>eh, I don’t know. I’m from tx and my sat got me a decent ride to smu…if i transfer it’ll be to UT if anything, I really don’t mind staying in state the rest of my life</p>
<p>Wow…that sucks, you still had b’s and c’s. I bet it had less to do with grades directly and the fact that your teacher retracted his rec, thats crazy.
SMU aint too bad though</p>
<p>SMU is a great school.</p>
<p>I bet you won’t transfer and you’ll have a lot, lot of fun, and no dreadful winter, either. </p>
<p>Who knows where you will got to grad school? But you will have fun at SMU and learn a lot, as well.</p>
<p>Good luck to you. I’m glad you’re moving on so gracefully.</p>
<p>thanks guys. yeah I feel I should clarify, my school’s on trimesters; I had pretty good first 2 tri grades (I got in ed cas) but third tri was miserable, think d’s and f’s. def why my teacher sent in that retraction in the first place.</p>
<p>Thanks poetgirl, I really like the thought of law school at this point and dallas is a decent city to live in…who knows</p>
<p>i agree with hahahah (great ID, btw; you must get that a lot) that it probably had more to do with the fact that your teacher retracted his recommendation and less with your c’s and d’s. </p>
<p>i cannot believe that a teacher would do that.
i mean, yeah, a d isn’t exactly praiseworthy, but to retract a recommendation for doing less than stellar in the final trimester of senior year?
did that teacher hate you or something? </p>
<p>even my chem teacher, whom i hated and wisely decided not to ask for a recommendation, didn’t do such a thing even though it was his hobby to threaten his ap chem class with a retraction every other day.</p>
<p>that being said, SMU is a beautiful place- great weather too! 
it seems to be a school that has a lot going o in it…</p>
<p>While this is a terrible thing to happen, if the OP’s grades did dip into the D and F range, Cornell is within its right to retract its conditional offer of admission. Similarly, the teacher is within his right to retract his recommendation letter. He’s thinking about the worth of his recommendation letter for future students. If you keep recommending students who tank their classes, your letters won’t be worth much in the future. It is the OP who let down his teacher. Not the other way around. When someone recommends you for something, you have to live up to that recommendation.</p>
<p>That said, it sounds like the OP learned something from all this. If he applies himself in college and learns to keep the effort up 100% of the way, 4 years from now, he’ll look at all this as a positive turning point. Good luck.</p>
<p>@ratty9-
Very sorry about that, I hate that this type of thing can even happen to someone.</p>
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<p>And it’s also worth mentioning that Cornell was not likely the best place for the OP to end up at, either. Best of luck to him at SMU.</p>
<p>It’s June…how do you still have a place at SMU? Did you double deposit? If so, that could have something to do with it as well.</p>
<p>Yeah honestly, based on everything the op’s said, it seems really unlikely this scenario actually took place. I’ve never heard of a college, even smu - which I’m pretty familiar with- giving out spots so late in the game…guy’s prob flame.</p>
<p>and how did you find this out? call or email or letter?</p>