<p>Let's say it's my lucky day on March 30 and I get in at Princeton.
If my final 2nd sem grades look like this: </p>
<p>AP Calc BC: B
Brit LIt: A
AP Bio: B
AP Physics C: A
Engineering: B
AP Stats: C (Our teacher SUCKS!)
Web Design (1/2 sem class): A </p>
<p>Would I get my admissions revoked?</p>
<p>Whether or not you had literally straight A’s the rest of your hs career is significant.</p>
<p>I know ED schools will sometimes send letters warning students if their grades are slacking after midterms. I’m not sure how RD works, but even if they did contact you, if you apologized it would probably be acceptable. The grades aren’t * that * horrendous.</p>
<p>If you were admitted with a 4.0 UW, then suddenly got 3 Bs and a C, they could rescind your acceptance. But most likely you will receive a sternly worded warning letter, asking for an explanation, and academic probationary status for your first semester.</p>
<p>Wait, so if I get accepted having gotten A’s (except for one B+ in calc last year and one B in physics C last semester), and then I get a B in physics C and another B in, say, AP Econ, and MAYBE in Comparative Gov too, and A’s in all my other classes… that could get me in trouble (from any of the Ivies I applied to)? Or is it the OP’s mention of a C that makes it worse?</p>
<p>I fail to see how a college could say “you’re good enough to attend our school” but then say “well YOUR GRADE WENT DOWN 3% IN TWO CLASSES (WHILE YOU WERE STUDYING FOR SEVEN AP TESTS) AND THAT NEGATES YOUR ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL CAREER OF WORKING HARD AND BEING SUCCESSFUL AND INVOLVED!” I thought the whole rescinding thing was for people who, say, have all A’s except one B, and get accepted, and then get 3 C’s, a D, and an F because they think second semester doesn’t matter at all.</p>
<p>hey, im totally with you on this grade-dropping-equals-fear-of-rescinded-admission walk of life. but i mean im trying my best. ive never gotten anything less than an A in high school and middle school, but for the first time, i’m hitting a glitch on the high school highway. however, on second thoughts, if any school wants to rescind our admission based off of a few Bs and Cs, then maybe that place is not the right place for us and we’re not the right students for them.</p>
<p>stop panicking</p>
<p>Princeton is not going to rescind an acceptance because of a C and a couple of B’s</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with you. Even if it were Princeton.</p>
<p>The only B’s other I’ve gotten have been in AP Gov sophomore year(hard teacher, but got a 5 on the exam), graphic design freshman year, a mandatory composition class I had to take last summer, and the first semesters of AP Bio and AP Stats. I have a 3.89 GPA overall (I hope that rounds to a 3.9). But I go to a private school where A’s in AP classes are significantly harder to get (if that matters).</p>
<p>Fortunately, I got straight A’s junior year.</p>
<p>Rescinding admissions is a really serious thing; they’re talking like, if your grades slipped so badly you’re failing classes and might not graduate; or if you’ve been in some kind of terrible trouble. Dropping from A’s to B’s and a C is not a big deal.</p>
<p>as a guide you might want to take a look at the Univ. of California System policy for rescisions. It is black and white set of rules. Something like you can’t get more than a certain amount of D’s per semester senior year.</p>
<p>this gives you an example:</p>
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<p>anything less than straight a’s and i would be worried</p>
<p>…jk lolz. i would say that what you see in the link above for ucla and Berkley is similar to Ivy League schools. My brother’s friend was accepted into brown and then promptly got straight c’s and never heard a word from admissions. </p>
<p>take a chill pill or 20</p>
<p>Different schools do it differently. UChicago is pretty lax. Yale, not so much–people have gotten warning letters or been forced to take gap years for grades similar to OP’s. There are posts on here but I’m too busy to dig them up right now.</p>
<p>As long as you don’t drink during Princeton Preview, you’d have to goof majorly academically to get rescinded.</p>