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<p>Quite honestly it depends upon how rigorous your high school was. Many of our friends have children that state that our local high school was more difficult than the various top-20 colleges they now attend. </p>
<p>I suspect that many people on CC will feel the same way.</p>
<p>Where did you get accepted ED?! I’m curious :)</p>
<p>^ Me too. lol
You are lucky! I have to wait til the end of March to find out my college decisions. I can’t even relax stress free for a day to keep from falling behind! lol Anyways, congratulations! :)</p>
<p>I wish I could succumb to senioritis so that I can focus less on grades and maybe instead work on scholarship applications or learning linear algebra on my own. However, it feels a bit weird to slack off in school. My classes this semester are all quite entertaining, too, so I don’t necessarily want to let them go.</p>
<p>How hard was it for you to get those A’s? Horrid, beastly, nauseating, stomach turning?
If so, consider whether or not you want to go on like that the next four years. If you feel you still kept a sense of humor, kept up with friends and occasionally fell in love, then relax and see how well you do when taking off some of the pressure. Being a grown-up is overrated, try to keep as much of your teenage life as free of bone crushing pressure. Your parents will miss you when you are off and gone, this is also the time you are still home and have fun with them.</p>
<p>I may be saying nothing of relevance to the OP, but I remember my own senior year. It wasn’t that I had no interest in working or getting good grades. It’s that I was so exhausted by three and a half years of grade obsession. I didn’t want to keep working just to get an A. I wanted to make my last semester count. </p>
<p>I did. And I did well academically; got asked out for the first time; made friends with people I never liked before; nailed my APs (including 2 on the same day!); and made lasting memories. </p>
<p>The point? Maybe the OP just needs to take the focus away from “must. get. A’s.” and shift it more to enjoying and absorbing the end of high school.</p>
<p>I think post #27 says it all. Here’s a guy/gal that was accepted to Princeton and got a D and an F senior year AND STILL DIDN’T HAVE HIS ACCEPTANCE COMPLETELY RESCINDED. That’s consistent with what I found by typing in, “How common is it for colleges to rescind acceptances” into Google. Read the articles and posts.</p>
<p>There’s a sliding scale here on this thread from no study to maximum study. I’m not sure exactly where I am, but probably closer to the former. I’ve asked my D to work on getting her certification from Microsoft on the Office suite of software - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. I have also asked her to take an on-line course or two on Coursera, Edx, or iTunes U. She’s undecided on a major and I think listening to some of these college lectures might help her decide, but I also want her to get a feel for on-line education. I think what’s out there is INCREDIBLE and it’s only getting better.</p>
<p>So, perhaps use some of that intellectual energy elsewhere.</p>
<p>I had the same reaction as JMU1989–a D and an F, and the result was the kid had to wait a year? That’s not exactly a worst-case scenario.</p>
<p>I think the problem with this discussion is that it’s not so easy to figure out how to ease off a bit without easing off too much. I like Marian’s suggestion of easing off in activities that you don’t care about that much outside of school.</p>
<p>Just to make sure- for commonapp schools the midyear report only shows final semester grades not quarterly grades right? I had straight final semester As for the first half of this year hut had some Bs in a few classes in some quarters. Will colleges see this?</p>
<p>Depends on how your school transcripts look…individual to each school.</p>
<p>A word of CAUTION…the student who had her/his grades slip to D & F…and still wasn’t rescinded by Princeton…You do not know why Princeton selected this student initially-nor-why they let it not affect the student’s admission/acceptance.
I know of a student who was accepted ED to another school,received a D in a class, and had their application withdrawn. Because they were an ED student…they had no other applications to rely on, and they ended up going to a CC, and then having to apply as a transfer the following year. Nothing wrong with a CC…but a let down as the ED school was their dream school.
CAUTION…
~APOL-A Mum</p>
<p>Truth is, there’s no one answer to your question. It depends. College will not just be a new academic experience for you, it will also be a life experience for you. To be successful in college you’ll not only have to get good grades, but also have to adapt to a new social setting and manage your own life independently for the first time. How you successfully navigate that life-changing event is a function your abilities and personality and will be quite different to how others will successfully navigate it. So, if you your question on grades is to give you some time to recharge your batteries and to sort other aspects of your life so that you hit the ground running at college, I’d be ok with it. However, if it’s just to kick back because you don’t have to work any more, I’d say why? Only you can answer these questions honestly. Just don’t do something that you’ll end up regretting later (either way).</p>
<p>I thought I remember reading a thread where a student got a warning from Yale over 1 C and 2 Bs. Here it is:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/541900-am-i-going-get-rescinded-warning-letter.html?highlight=rescind+warning[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/541900-am-i-going-get-rescinded-warning-letter.html?highlight=rescind+warning</a></p>
<p>The issue here is that if you shoot for a B, it could easily slip into a C, sometimes it is just that one big test.</p>
<p>Find your balance…My son is a senior and he is having a hard time staying focused.
We decided to be more linient he has been going to concerts during the week,going out with friends more often,planning a trip to bonnaroo,planning a spring break vacation,etc…
You have already laid the ground work, I think you can mantain the gpa with less work.
Talk to your parents and let them know that you don’t plan on letting your grades slip, but will balance your social time with your study time. Maybe they can follow your grades on progress book with you and if there is a decline in grades then you can revisit the topic…
Good luck!!! Have fun and be safe…</p>
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He got a warning letter–no sign he was rescinded.</p>
<p>I think a balanced response to OP’s question is sensible. You shouldn’t entirely slack off–if you get more than a couple of Bs, your college might send you a nasty letter, and if you do much worse, there could be worse consequences. But if you get a couple of Bs, nothing will happen. You won’t even get a letter. The issue is whether you can slack off just enough to not risk anything worse.</p>
<p>I graduated from high school in 1985. Graduated from University with a BA in 1989. Applied to get a BSN in 2004 at a competitive school. Had to send in my high school transcript for admissions…who would have known I would be sending it after all those years?</p>
<p>I actually do have a couple of C’s right now, which is not good, but I can bring them up.</p>
<p>Honestly, this is the dumbest term ive ever heard. I’m a senior too and haven’t experienced senoritis. I get easliy annoyed when kids in my class complain about homework and say since first semester is over, what’s the point of trying anymore. But I feel like we’ve worked so hard to make it this far, so why would you suddenly throw in the towel? I say don’t slack off because then you are even more prepared for college. Its just my two cents. Best wishes. Xx</p>
<p>I am a parent and I’m the one with senioritis. I’m so sick of the stupid school and the stupid district, I could care less about school. My kids are both still getting straight A’s so they aren’t the ones with the problem!</p>
<p>^^Post 59-Yeah, I’m on kid #3 and I have significant sophomoritis. Two more years! Two more years! That’s my mantra. She’s doing fine; it’s all me :)</p>
<p>FWIW, S1 received an SCEA acceptance. ('07 HS grad) He definitely got senioritis after that. He had been in a really tight race for val/sal and decided to step back a bit and let them finish duking it out. I think he ended with a B, B- and A’s. Those were his only B’s in HS.</p>
<p>Made for a tense semester since he was still waiting on his other acceptances. I think that Jan-March are the longest months ever…he did end up at his #1 choice, which wasn’t the SCEA.</p>
<p>Our HS is definitely not a high achieving, pressure-type atmosphere. Especially for some kids in those types of districts, I don’t think it’s a bad thing for them to enjoy their last semester. They have the rest of their academic careers and working lives to kill themselves again.</p>
<p>We’ll see how well I do at this advice in spring '15!</p>