<p>Hi, I was wondering about northwestern's revoking admission policy. How many admissions do they revoke per year? and What would my chances of getting my admission revoked, or not getting accepted to bigin with, if my grades drop? I am a senior and i would love to attend northwestern. I beleive i am a fantastic student (I have a 3.92 unweighted and 4.67 weighted gpa, 35 on my act, good extracurriculars and community service, I am Hispanic, etc.) but my grades are not doing so well this year due to reasons i would rather not state, and I am currently failing every one of my classes. I went from strait a's in the most vigorous courseload junior year to failing all my classes in still very rigorous classes. I am very disappointed in myself :( but i was wondering (hoping) if northwestern would simply toss my application to the side after seeing my senior year grades or if they would be exceedingly generous and even bother to take a glance at my application. please help, thank you very much</p>
<p>It seems as though you may have a hard time pulling together an appealing application in this situation. Your teachers and counselor are likely to be aware of your current situation and, as a result, your recommendations might not be what they could have been based on last year’s performance. This year’s grades do matter for admissions decisions, to the extent you have grades before the committee decides. Mid-year and final transcripts are required and failing or low performing results could well result in revocation of acceptance. If you manage to get accepted before this year’s grades are in, you would almost certainly be contacted later to see why your grades have dropped.</p>
<p>How far into the semester are you? Most schools haven’t been in session all that long. Even if you are doing terribly now, can’t you pull your grades up quite a bit by December/January? At my S’s high school, at least, interim and quarter grades did not go on the transcript–only semester grades. Plenty of times, he would receive a lousy interim grade, realize he had to buckle down, and end up in fine shape by the time final grades were recorded.</p>
<p>It is true that your performance this year will matter, so you need to get your situation, whatever it is, under control ASAP if you want to be admitted to top schools. Don’t just wallow in despair, and don’t hesitate to ask your teachers and guidance counselor for help if you need it.</p>
<p>You have time to get your grades up, and you will need to if you want NU to seriously consider you.</p>