I am currently a senior that was accepted to the class of 2020 at UMich. I was wondering if I will get rescinded if I drop a class next semester. I am currently enrolled in 6 courses (2 AP, 2 Dual Enrollment, 2 Regular). Will they revoke my admissions if I choose to drop one of the regular classes (Studio Art)? I am pretty sure the councilor will let me drop it, but I don’t want to do it if it’ll hurt me. I will end up only taking 5 classes if I choose to drop it.
@AcceptableName Will a “W” show up on your transcript if you drop it? Idk how your high school classes work, but if a W shows up on your transcript, then I advise against it.
While it’s not a guarantee you’ll get your admissions revoked (nothing ever is), I wouldn’t risk it. Just pass your classes reasonably and don’t get caught for a criminal offense.
@iououaeu A “W” will not show on the transcript because I will drop the class after the semester ends. I already have an ‘A’ in the class, but I want to drop it because I don’t need another credit of art. To tell you the truth, I want to ‘chill’ my last semester of high school and only take 5 classes. I am worried that this will get my admission revoked for being lazy.
You can email the admissions office and ask. It is important that you don’t just call them, but you actually get their response via email. In case they tell you that it won’t get your admission rescinded and then in the end they try to, you are going to want that response in writing. Chances are you should be fine. Dropping an art class is better than dropping a core academic class.
Your counselor can’t prevent you from dropping a class, but they can make you sign a waiver to say that you acknowledge the risk you are taking.
You should definitely contact the admission office and ask about it. They may have considered your senior course load when evaluating your admission. However, it should be okay to drop a non-core course.
Revoke rarely ever happens. They are aware of senioritis and it would give them a bad rep for screwing someone’s plans for the following year(s) at the last minute
I was told i would basically have to fail my classes. That is different from dropping a class and going below full time, but that is an option you’ll have at UM as well, so it would be ridiculous. So long as you graduate on time, you’re good
Having said all that, you have the entire summer to “chill” and given what a joke high school work is by comparison, makes me wonder if you’re ready to not be lazy. If you drop the class, sign up for another
Any reason that you cannot drop it after 1st semester and still get an “A” ?
That is not true. According to the CoE information session, there are around 50 students rescinded each year. Not sure if that is for CoE alone or the whole campus though.
I am in COE and I can’t confirm or deny this number, but I don’t think 50 students sounds unreasonable. For umich, basically getting a few more B’s than usual is not an issue, but too many B’s or the presence of any C’s and below need to be explained.
In terms of dropping classes, you should have only listed classes on your application which you had the intention of completing. If you dropped a class that isn’t academic, probably wouldn’t hurt. But if you drop an academic class, it could come back to bite you.
@TooOld4School That’s what I was planning on doing. The semester ends in 3 weeks, so I was going to tell my councilor to drop it then.
@AcceptableName , I don’t see how that can affect your admission then. Never taking a class is not the same as getting a poor grade, and students change their schedule frequently.
@TooOld4School But I will not be taking any other class to replace it. I am worried that they will revoke me for being lazy and not taking the usual 6 classes a semester.
@AcceptableName I know people who did that and they ended up fine. Just follow the advice I gave you of obtaining UM’s response via email (i.e., in writing). Therefore, if they try to rescind your admission when they told you they wouldn’t, you would be able to prove to them what you were told. If they tell you it is fine and the response is not documented in writing, then they don’t have to honor what they told you.
The colleges at the university love to terrify applicants with stories of rescinded admissions decisions, but such cases are very rare. You’d need to fail a course, have your GPA decline precipitously, or get kicked out of school.
It does happen every year. But if one did not get a D or worse, I don’t see one should worry. In situation like OP, one should contact the admission office and it should be fine. Taking no action and keep on worrying does no help.
I wouldn’t worry about dropping a class or not taking it to begin with. And they won’t unilaterally withdraw your admission, but will always contact you first. You really don’t have anything to worry about.