<p>I used to have a 3.8 overall GPA prior to this semester.</p>
<p>The last semester of senior year, I have a 2.8 (and 3.1 for the entire senior year), and the SIR Conditions of Admissions have something about requiring at least a 3.0..</p>
<p>Is that 3.0 referring to senior year OVERALL GPA (1st+2nd semester) or just the last semester?</p>
<p>And do I need to follow a trend..? If my GPA was 3.8 prior to senior year but dropped to 3.1 (just for senior year), will UCB rescind me?</p>
<p>Will UC Berkeley rescind me right away, or should I give them a call and try to work something out?</p>
<p>I believe they look the semesters individually. Anyways, I would recommended you get in touch with admissions ASAP and explain your situation. You should also have a good excuse to why your grades had a dip.</p>
<p>Yeah i think UCLA’s the school that wans 3.0 UW the whole year, and berkeley wants 3.0 UW each semester senior year. :/</p>
<p>Well, if you talk to admissions, give them a really good reason, and explain how you promise work hard at Berkeley, ect, they should let you in. They aren’t necessarily heartless people. If you let them know at the last moment, or you don’t even give them a reason why your grades took a dip, then they would probably rescind you.</p>
<p>Oh and they don’t give a crap if your grades fall significantly from your previous years, as long at it’s above a 3.0. This doesn’t apply to you however, since you went below a 3.0.</p>
<p>marix123 - don’t know. The conditions don’t specify if it is only a-g, if it is UC GPA method of calculating, if it is simply the UW GPA as reported by your school, it only says 3.0 UW per semester, no D or F grade. </p>
<p>I think if the PE class makes the difference, you can defensibly argue your position and I imagine it would be accepted. </p>
<p>For example, if PE is a D, you can take the stand that you interpret GPA to be the same rules defined for the UC application - no + or - on a letter factored in, only a-g courses - and thus you were led to believe that the GPA would not include the PE class.</p>
<p>Conversely, if the PE grade is an A and it hauls your overall GPA for the semester up over the 3.0 line, you could take the stand that without any guidance one way or the other, you operated under their instructions to maintain a 3.0 or higher GPA and did so using the classes you listed on the application and the grading methods applied in your school. </p>
<p>If you had flunked an academic class, then having an A in PE isn’t going to be enough, but for the cases where you are really close, you have pretty good odds to have them count your conditions as satisfied assuming you take the appropriate stance on calculating GPA and that you have a plausible answer about how the low grades happened - something that does not look like negligent disregard of the academic requirements and conditions of admission, not like the typical senioritis that they see every year and for whom they have developed the rescinding conditions in the first place.</p>
<p>Confirmed 2.8 for the 2nd semester of senior year…
I feel like ****. I have a 89 in one class and she won’t bring it up…</p>
<p>Do excuses regarding “family matters” work? Such as my mom having a previous history of brain surgery (2-3 years ago) and her not feeling as well so I had to take care of her during my senior year while juggling 5 AP classes and college applications?</p>
<p>are you out of state? if you are then berkeley might just let you slid so we can have some of your sweet, sweet unsubsidized tuition fee payments.</p>
<p>Have you maybe asked if there is an extra credit project or other activity you could do in exchange for the grade coming up? Does she know that her grade “will result in your admission being rescinded by Cal and you not having a spot in college for the fall”?</p>
<p>Is there a sympathetic teacher from among your other classes this semester who might be willing to take an ‘extra credit project’ to raise your grade in that other class just enough to get the GPA to 3.0, if the teacher knew you were at risk of being rescinded?</p>
<p>High school teachers are so full of themselves. They probably did crappily in high school and went to ****ty ass colleges, which is why they teach in high school. They’re jealous of people being accepted into great colleges, and they won’t let them slide for slacking off one semester when they themselves probably slacked through all of high school.</p>