<p>My grades are mostly B's with two C's that I can def bring up to B's</p>
<p>and one D in AP Stats.</p>
<p>That D in stats is really making me worry... Would my admission be revoked by any chance?</p>
<p>I'm willing to send in the letter with my excuses and even take stats over the summer at a junior college to make up for it if that's what they want me to do..</p>
<p>please excuse my paranoia :( my counsellor is telling me I could probably only get away one single C, but I'm afraid I might end up with one D..</p>
<p>Do you think it’s better to drop the “D” class then? Wouldn’t CMU question my action and give a negative response to that? I thought it was bit late for me to drop classes now…</p>
<p>It depends on your high school-- will it show as a “W” - then you need CMU approval b/c your common ap and your acceptance letter says a program change requires approval.</p>
<p>If you drop at your school and the deadline has not yet passed so that it doesn’t show as a “W” I doubt CMU would even notice…
Ask your GC for his/her advice.</p>
<p>A D can easily b/c an F too…be very careful. How about a tutor to attempt to pull it up to a C-?</p>
<p>What’s your major…if you’re a math major or decision sciences…the stats class is something you should know. CIT students must take stats in the junior year…a 5 on the AP exam can exempt you…but not a 4.</p>
<p>Why not call admissions and ask them if you can drop an ELECTIVE class at your high school?</p>
<p>I think our school transcript will show a W if I drop it now…</p>
<p>I let the seniorits get the best of me… I applied ED to CIT majoring computer engineering…</p>
<p>So basically I slacked off during february when the big important chunk of the class was being taught…</p>
<p>I tried madly to catch up, but it just didn’t work out so well.</p>
<p>Our stats teacher has this mindset of “If my tests are harder than the AP test and if my students do well on them, they’ll surely do well on the AP test!”
This makes sense, but to a senior with a senioritis, it’s awfully painful…</p>
<p>If i do end up getting that ugly fat D, I was also thinking about letting CMU know that I will be taking stats over the summer at junior college or even start the school year with an academic probation… Do you think they’ll buy that?</p>
<p>You’re basically going to have to take 36-220 anyways in the jnr year…I doubt they will rescind you if you get no other Ds and the rest of your grades aren’t also Cs. (But you said you had bad senioritus-- so those Cs you hope may become Bs can stay Cs…) And taking it at a jnr college is just pointless…good faith effort but not worth it …</p>
<p>Straight Cs and a D could create some problems-- so as long as you hope to get Bs with the one D…don’t worry. If you could possibly pull a decent fourth quarter grade, maybe it will be a C- for the year in stats…</p>
<p>Tough choice whether to be proactive or just let it go. I’m inclined to say let it go-- given how many applicants they had, how behind they fell with paperwork, etc…I think you will get through registration in July without anyone noticing one D …but if the transcript has a D and is also peppered with Cs…you may get some problems. I would hope they don’t bark…or at least give you a chance to explain things. The good thing here is that Stats is an elective…and it’s not like you pulled a D in calculus- that would give them a cause for concern being in ECE.</p>
<p>Final thought-- depending on how approachable the stats teacher is…could you explain that you will do extra credit …tell her you were a jerk (no time to be prideful) and you would like to try for a C- this quarter…what will she accept to get to that place? Tell her you risk loosing tons of money (a lie perhaps?)…no harm asking- what can she do - -laugh in your face… so what, …your starting salary in 4 years will be 2-3x her salary and you get the last laugh (sorry to any high school teachers I just offended)…Really, try the begging route if you can be sincere about making amends…and good luck on the AP…hock up with someone to study- if you’re an ECE major- stats is not going to kill you to cram-learn in a week…</p>
<p>Hey-- I there’s lots of people having senioritis (especially ED crowd in all schools)…but remember, one awful quarter cannot even with an F cause a D if the other quarters were B or higher…you still can get a C-.</p>
<p>Any chance you can pull some B+ grades so that the overall GPA for the year is at least a 3.0? (I assume if you got into ECE you must have already had a 3.7+ applying…)</p>
<p>Thank you so much for taking your time to reply… This reply is really helping me breathe… My private counsellor was scaring me to death regarding a case he had two years ago when a girl got a D in her english and her college rescinded her.</p>
<p>yeah…my stats teacher will laugh at me for sure (haha… she has a reputation for laughing at students in pinch)… I doubt it, but maybe she’ll show sympathy to a senior trying to battle the mighty fleet of senioritis…</p>
<p>My other grades are around low B’s and solid B’s with, of course, C’s that I need to bring up by turning in some missing assignments.</p>
<p>So even with a D, if I manage to pull off a 3.0, I wouldn’t have to go hang myself for my own stupidity?</p>
<p>I honestly think that if you get the one D (which your really can possibly get to a C-…go beg to do made up work) plus no other Cs you will manage to squeak by…but if you get Cs…and a D…you might get put on probation.</p>
<p>I think the general rule of thumb for colleges in general is 3.0 overall (if you were walking on water so to speak to begin with), no Ds or no more than two Cs. It’s all conjecture…we only have anecdotes to go on to consider how CMU potentially handles things…and we have already heard stories of students who didn’t even send the final grades …that’s too risky, b/c if they finally request them and you send them - it was a conscious choice to hide the bad. I think for certain, a D in calculus would be a serious problem…but stats was an elective…you’ve obviously already demonstrated through SAT and SATIIs that you can do mathematics-- or you would never have been accepted to ECE.</p>
<p>You’re not alone…lots of threads popping up with much worse-- like straight Fs, loads of Ds. But all that matters is your particular case obviously.</p>
<p>There is always the option to get CMU to bless you and drop the class…then focus on straight Bs with everything else. Why not just call and ask them if it would be ok if you drop Stats and skip the AP exam? Worst case, they say no and you do your best to get the C-. What do your parents think?</p>
<p>…senioritis is a terrible affliction…I feel your pain…but there’s so much at stake here…try try try all routes- speak to the teacher, get a tutor, and aim for a C-. And make sure those Cs in your other classes actually do morph into Bs! </p>
<p>And tell your parents…do you really want to have to deal with them too …</p>
<p>Running risk of two Cs for the year…in English and my History class.
Solid first two quarters B+ and A-…pulled Ds in third quarter in both classes and maybe if I can motivate myself might get a C- in fourth quarter…so the end result could have C+ or C for the year in both of these classes. With only a few weeks to finish- my senioritis got the better of me following being sick for a week at the start of third quarter…I just couldn’t get going again…i’m so over high school…but realize now, I could be in very hot water.</p>
<p>I expect two B+s maybe A- in my other two classes with solid AP scores.</p>
<p>Think they will even notice when the final transcript is sent?
My dad is freakin- out thinking they will change my generous finaid package to more loans than grants…reallY?</p>
<p>It’s hard to say what is acceptable and what isn’t. My guess is one C would be OK, two would be the max. If you were getting a D or F then I would worry. Remember that the college only sees semester grades normally so a D in a marking period really isn’t seen.</p>
<p>i hate seeing these threads…u are going to a top school and you are deciding to slack off…that’s not fair to people who are working hard until the end and might not have been accepted…no offense but if you knew this could happen u shouldn’t of slacked off so much…sure i have senioritis too but risking my college’s admission is not worth it…</p>
<p>I had 3 C’s for my mid-year report and I seriously thought I was going to get rescinded. So I went down to my GC and he told me he has never had at student rescinded from a college for getting C’s. I was still flipping out so he called CMU and he told me they said the same thing. I wouldn’t stress out if you have C’s or maybe even a D. My GC said that I should only be worried if I get a police offence (kids at my school get those but they never report them to colleges) or get more than one D or F.</p>
<p>REALLY?? No way- their admissions staff told your GC go ahead and rack up Cs and your fine?</p>
<p>I got a pile of money too-- so as I said in my first post, I’m also worried that might disappear.</p>
<p>Did the admissions person at least encourage you to try to raise the grades to Bs? REally…are you serious?</p>
<p>This is the greatest news ever (like almost as good as hearing I was accepted!!) … steelers - no joke-- please really is this true?</p>
<p>I apologize to those posters who weren’t admitted to CMU – I know this sounds terribly selfish on my part to be writing this post --and with all due respect… admissions decisions are based on the file up to senior year and I’m sorry you weren’t admitted-- but that is not my fault and it doesn’t mean that me, or Steelers or LFCollege are less qualified than you are simply because we have senioritis and you don’t. I guess if I had to go to a less quality school I probably would be working to keep my very high gpa hoping to transfer- but seriously it is damm near impossible to focus in English and History- I’m not interested in drawing posters with timelines and writing about my feelings towards the inner meaning of some novel and worse yet-- some stupid poet…so done!
I’ve searched CC for “seniorits” and “rescind” and these threads are appearing everywhere…not unique to CMU…</p>
<p>All the stories about getting C’s and being rescinded are probably not true. Have you ever heard of someone getting rescinded for C’s?</p>
<p>Everyone told me that because I got 3 C’s I would get a small financial aid package. I stressed out about that for two months and I ended up getting 100% of my need met.</p>
<p>“Did the admissions person at least encourage you to try to raise the grades to Bs? REally…are you serious?”</p>
<p>I didn’t talk to the admissions consular my GC did. He said that all the admissions consular said was they won’t rescind me for getting C’s.</p>
<p>I really doubt C’s will get you rescinded but keep in mind that all of my C’s were 78% or above and I applied ED. I highly doubt CMU would EVER rescind an ED student for C’s because the student’s only other option would be community college.</p>