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there are couple stories floating around my school about IB kids getting lower exam marks than predicts because they've already been accepted.
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<p>Would they revoke acceptances over lower than predicted exam grades. I'm really worried about that for myself. I've already been accepted ED and I don't want to lose it because of IB exams.</p>
<p>What happens if a student is accepted early at a school that requires 4 years of history/social sciences --with the last semester said to be taken at a college, and then the student DROPS the college course, thus having just 3 and a half years. Would that be grounds for rescinding?</p>
<p>cloverdale, most E.D. acceptances are conditional on the successfull completion of all coursework in progress at the time of application. It will state this clearly when you receive your offer of admission. So, I would not recommend then dropping any courses; you would be taking a risk there.</p>
<p>My D had listed on her schedule to colleges that 2nd semester she would be taking Pschology (Honors, not AP). She only signed up for the course last year because it always closes out early. Right now, she would like to change (I don't know if it's a "drop" because it's 2nd semester) Psychology and add a P/F Class. She currently has 5 APs first semester, and will still have 4 APs 2nd semester. She applied ED to a top tier school- If accepted, can her offer be rescinded because of this? Also, would this change affect her RD schools? Do you have to notify the schools?</p>
<p>A few years back, Stanford rescinded the acceptance of a student who got two Fs as second semester senior year grades.</p>
<p>I'm assuming that the college course Cloverdale is considering is a semester course, not a year-long one. Dropping it for another similar course would be okay, I think. However, if the student was expected to fulfill all high school graduation requirements, including 4 years of a subject and only did 3.5 years, the student might not be able to graduate and the college might consider the student had not fulfilled the college's expectations that s/he would be successfully completing 4 years of that subject. In other words, it is okay to substitute a course on Chaucer for a course on Shakespeare, but not to drop an English course altogether from the schedule.</p>
<p>Savvymom:
It's okay to drop a course from a planned schedule for something comparable in difficulty, especially if it's not a core course. My understanding is that Psych is not considered a core course, so substituting another elective would be fine. Colleges might query the P/F option, however. At many colleges, students are allowed to Pass as long as they do not fail outright (e.g, they do not get an F). However, a D- would not be acceptable on a high school applicant's transcript to highly selective colleges.</p>
<p>Marite-
She wants to be a peer tutor instead of taking the psych class. Obviously that will lighten her load- would that be a problem?</p>
<p>If that is okay with the high school, I think it would be fine with colleges (pure speculation on my part, though). She will know from the ED school soon whether she is accepted (keeping fingers crossed here!) and can ask. I would also enquire from the RD colleges how they view peer tutoring. If they are adamant they don't allow it to count, she may have to stick to her original schedule.</p>
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any consensus on how low a drop would warrent removal?
A couple C's? All C's? D's F's?
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<p>Are you planning on slacking off or do you already have some of these grades?</p>
<p>In our case, he does not need the course to graduate high school --in fact, he has taken 1 year more social sciences than the high school requires. This is a requirement of the college. He can replace it with a high school course, but not a college one, in his final semester --thus meeting the 4 years. This is a very selective LAC one notch down from AWS. But clearly, it would not be at the same level as the college course. Alternatively, he can get an Incomplete in the college course and finish before he graduates from High School. Perhaps this would be best.</p>
<p>For the student who keeps asking just how many C's, D's or whatever would warrant rescinding admissions....I think this answer was entirely covered in the Ask The Dean response (by a senior counselor at CC) that was pasted into this thread. It talks about a significant drop in grades. If you got accepted and had been a straight A student and now were a straight C student, that is a major change. If you were an B+/A- avg. student who now got two C's, it is not going to be THAT significant. A major change across the board, or failing a class, or getting a couple D's, that is what we're talking about. It is also relative to what you were getting when you were admitted and also the selectivity of the school. </p>
<p>The advice about dropping a class is also spot on in the above posts on this thread. IF you are looking to drop a course that is not required to graduate but it is a change from what you had on your schedule when you were accepted, it would be BEST to call the college you are enrolled at and ASK first before you do it. Don't assume anything. </p>
<p>This situation arose for my daughter last spring. She was a junior in HS graduating a year early and was accepted RD to NYU where she is now attending. As many here know, she was in a serious car crash last March and severely injured (and has thankfully since recovered in time to go to her dream school and even got her acceptance in a hospital bed). She missed an entire month from school. We had trouble getting her teachers to even give us the missed work (though for a while she could not have done it but at one point she was able to do some in a hospital bed in our living room and did not wish to fall further behind). She actually by law was placed under some provision regarding her schoolwork, also. Even so, there was work to make up, and some subjects you can't just skip material (science, math, for example). She had to make a lot up and the teachers had not been that cooperative in getting the work to her, so she had to make it up after returning (though her Chem Honors teacher went beyond the call of duty and met with her one on one over a vacation week for private lessons to teach her a month of what she missed....not fun but this teacher is a doll). Anyway, even when she eventually got back to school, she could not make it through a full day for a while due to her condition. </p>
<p>She had been accelerated through school in math and as a junior was in AP Calculus. However, at our school NO juniors take Calculus and the only class (seniors) offered was during the highest level English/HIstory class for juniors which she also needed to take so last year she was in Indep. AP Calculus one period a day, teaching it to herself, getting the daily assignments from the class, taking all the exams, under the supervision of the Calc teacher in his office. After missing a month of math, and still not being healed and in severe pain and could not walk, etc., the pressure to make up a month of math was more than she wanted to take on in late April (would never have been able to do the AP exam, though it is not required here). She did not NEED this course to graduate. She had four years of high school math without it. She also will never be taking another math course in college or ever (nor does she like math). She only was taking AP Calculus because she happens to excel at math (even if she hates it) and we felt she had exhausted the high school math curriculum except Calculus and while she didn't need the course, we felt she should still be taking math as she was a junior who was graduating early and should take the most demanding load possible. Before agreeing to letting her drop it in mid April, we had our GC call NYU Admissions and ask if this was OK since she was accepted with this course on her schedule. The HS was going to give her credit for half a year and a final grade (all that is on her transcript, she had an A+) but not the full year credit. It was explained the reason. Also it was clear to NYU that the HS itself did not care if she dropped it in April as the child never needed this course in the first place. NYU said it was absolutely fine and to include a note with the final transcript to remind them. Always check.</p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>I got accepted into North Carolina State, but now Im suffering with a C in one of my honors courses. I had a 3.6ish GPA in high school, but this year I have a 3.2 to 3.3. Will I be alright? Im asking because in my acceptance letter it said I had to maintain my GPA, or get higher, which isnt happening right now.</p>
<p>Students must also remember that if they have been accepted in to honors programs at specific colleges or they have been offered merit .</p>
<p>These programs are based on having a certain GPA. If you no longer have that GPA, the program and the merit can also be rescinded if a slide in grades means you no longer meet the requirements</p>