<p>I can't believe I searched and there wasn't a thread on this. </p>
<p>S has got it bad. So bad that I am concerned about rescinds. This entire year has been a little below par, but this quarter right now is the worst ever (and it's not the last quarter!).</p>
<p>I've been nagging, yelling, threatening, talking with teachers and GC, grounding, reminder about rescind policies...you name it. S is confident that "everything will be fine" and I am worried for no reason.</p>
<p>But his core academic course grades are BAD. Not "ooh he went from an A to a B+" bad, either.</p>
<p>Is this going on in your house and if so, any strategies that work to share?</p>
<p>A stiff reminder that your college acceptance is conditional on your successfully completing high school. There is an expectation that he finishes with the grades pretty close to the ones that he had when he got accepted. Colleges do rescind admissions and scholarships due to senioritis. A worse scenario is that he does not want to start college on academic probation because of high school grades.</p>
<p>Here in Georgia, senioritis is restrained by fear of losing the Zell Miller (full tuition) or HOPE (partial tuition) state scholarships. They depend on your final GPA.</p>
<p>I see seniorities in my house too. But son is aware he can jeopardize his chances of joining college. So dragging himself through with occasional reminder from me.</p>
<p>Our oldest started down that track in about March of his senior year. He was accepted, had scholarship awards, had registered for classes already and figured why bother–a quick email to the guidance counselor took care of that one for us (we are just parents, what did we know). He cracked down and ended up ok at the end of the year.</p>
<p>My '12 son just walked in the door from school and started up his xbox. It is a Tuesday afternoon, with 7 days left in the third quarter! I feel your frustration. Although he has not had a drop in his grades (that I know of), I feel like he let his goalie take a break in the last minute of the hockey game. </p>
<p>ohiobassmom - Is your hs on quarters and semesters? If so, hopefully, the report card will be his wake up call to finish the final quarter of high school strong. The college will not see his poor performance third quarter, only his FINAL semester (or yearend, depending on your school) grades. Although colleges do rescind, it dosen’t happen as often as we fear.</p>
<p>OP-
Take away his laptop.
No more FB.
No gaming.
Doing homework at the kitchen table.
Get a tutor for his classes.
No clubs, no ECs, no sport.
He won’t get rescinded for dropping ECs but will for Cs especially in his intended major.
Which college?
Check their webpage.</p>
<p>I appreciate the advice and tips so far. I think I will take further action (some of Batllo’s ideas) if the quarter grades don’t pull up as they should (grades are only recorded on transcript on semester basis). He’s never been an all-A student. But his GPA could be .5 - 1.0 under normal, easily, this quarter. Hard to tell from the parent internet progress viewer since some teachers update grades regularly and some don’t - but I see enough there to be worried.</p>
<p>He hasn’t decided where he’s going next year, he has received some nice offers and is waiting on others before making a decision.</p>
<p>He doesn’t seem depressed but he is always pretty cheerful and easygoing so it’s hard to tell. He actually began seeing a counselor last week. I hope that helps him get to the root of this if it is more than senioritis.</p>
<p>Heh, I guess I have senioritis. I’ve completely stopped taking notes in all of my classes although I still maintain a low B in AP Economics and AP chemistry by reading the textbook hard the night before tests and still have a solid A in AP calculus and ap literature, probably because notes aren’t really necessary for those classes.</p>
<p>From my experience, 4th quarter is where many students do extremely well (in AP classes at least) because teachers usually give fun, very easy projects after the AP exam.</p>
<p>It’s the grades that matter in terms of the risk of being rescinded. AP test scores don’t. So if your son is in any AP classes, he should be concentrating on doing whatever he has to so that he can keep his grades up. What happens on the AP test is far less important – unless it is important to him to place out of certain courses or get credit for them.</p>
<p>I’d like to know if anyone has really been rescinded, and not just urban legends or friends cousins aunt type stories.</p>
<p>Son is def less motivated but so far hanging in. I find when we talk during calmer moments it goes over better. My point to him is that he will be the one having the discussion, not me.</p>
<p>The only student I ever have known to be rescinded was a girl from a top lac due to being arrested for marijuana possession at her senior prom. And not an urban legend. Someone we know personally.</p>
<p>eyemamom–according to our guidance counselor, they have one student every year or two that does get rescinded. That is what she told me when I called to see if she would talk to our son. Graduating classes of 550-600 kids. She did say that it takes a LOT, and a HUGE downturn–basically D’s and F’s–but it isn’t always that too.</p>
<p>mspearl–I believe you. I know of a girl that happened to as well only she was caught in the school bathroom on the last day of school. The school wouldn’t let her graduate because she didn’t complete her finals so the college was forced to rescind.</p>
<p>students DO get recinded. The posts on CC last spring/summer by students getting recinded broke my heart. And there is little you can do to change it once it happens.</p>
<p>Since as a parent I know nothing and needlessly worry…I am considering asking my son’s guidance counselor to send him a note directly just reminding him that he could be jeopardizing admitance. Sharing your frustration ohio.</p>
<p>Yes, it does indeed happen every year. I have kept copies of the letters, blanked out the names to show other students that it does indeed happen.</p>
<p>In my opinion the AD/ED and year long college cycle is what has born the fruit of senoritis. If kids applied in January and got their acceptances in April there would be no senioritis. Again the interests of the college have taken precedence over what senior year should be all about…an academic year not a “apply to college” year and forgetabout senior year cause it doesn’t mean as much. It’s also added unneeded pressure to junior year since many kids apply with sophomore and junior grades and the college chatter has trenched it’s way into junior year. It’s pushed kids to pack harder courses into earlier years to show ‘rigor.’ None of this is positive on any level in my opinion.</p>