<p>Listen, the exact limit of rescinding/not-rescinding with respect to your grades is easily modeled by a logarithmic function which...</p>
<p>What about getting convicted of a crime?</p>
<p>I know it's difficult, but try to avoid that.</p>
<p>lol, it's the heap paradox applied to college applications!</p>
<p>(what we really ought to be asking is, "if there were a grain of sand in my application envelope, would you reject me?"... "does one grain of sand turn a collection of grains into a whole scoop of play sand?"..."so it's okay if...")</p>
<p>Well the heap paradox bit is true, but that second paragraph made no sense whatsoever :p Just go play with your Spoilers and Duplicators and try not to fail a class or get convicted of a crime (try to avoid crime in general, but if you can't resist, make sure you don't get caught until you matriculate).</p>
<p>It did too make sense.
...but I won't explain it because, um... right.</p>
<p>"until you matriculate"?! You have too much confidence in my admission, and too little in my ability not to ever get caught.</p>
<p>I'm not on the adcom, but I'm pretty sure getting convicted of a crime goes on a case-by-case basis. Shoplifting or something would probably present you in a bad light, whereas burning "CALTECH" into the moon with a "laser" would probably be overlooked.</p>
<p>Um, exactly what law does that break, omgninja? The House Anti-Moon-Vandalism Act of 1972?</p>
<p>The laser would probably be a pretty powerful weapon for things like blinding airplane pilots, so the possession thereof might constitute the crime, rather than the actual writing.</p>
<p>hahahhaahhaahhaha</p>
<p>edit: hahhahahaahahahahha</p>
<p>Um.....</p>
<p>Um.....</p>
<p>~looks around~</p>
<p>You're wrong!!</p>
<p>~sticks tongue out at Kim~</p>
<p>~runs away~</p>
<p>I know someone who had their admission rescinded from MIT (he was, however, able to get it back after writing their dean of admissions a letter) for getting two Ds, so definitely avoid that.. try at least to pass all your courses second semester.</p>
<p>argh... i'm probably going to have a B or B- in English on my midyear report. I've never cared about grades, but of course now (when they're actually somewhat important) is when they drop, because of mathy stuff like intel and having to graduate. oh well.. grades just closed, so i guess i just hope now! :-/</p>