<p>Okay so I was accepted to Penn State earlier this year and honestly my grades have been terrible senior year; there was just a lot going on during the beginning that affected my grades. Anyway during the time I was accepted I had two D's (one in AP stats and another in calculus, yeah obviously I'm not much of a math person) and a C (Physics). My grades actually did go up by the end of the year but because the grades were so low during the beginning, my final grades are still the same as the grades I was accepted with, so two D's and one C..... So technically there was no drop in my grade but it's still beyond horrible.... Should I be worried about my admission getting rescinded?</p>
<p>Did your admission letter indicate any conditions on your senior year performance?</p>
<p>D grades are generally a bad thing to get and often would put you at risk of losing your admission offer.</p>
<p>Yes, frankly. And you should be talking to the admissions office at Penn State–and not to strangers on the Internet–about your situation today! </p>
<p>Call them. Do not email. Find out whether your place in the freshman class is in jeopardy, and if it is, what you must do to secure it.</p>
<p>Calling is always good, although it has been explained to a lot of people within our class that as long as you don’t FAIL any classes, you won’t be booted out, although you risk being on academic probation.</p>
<p>Schools do not WANT to take away your admission. Although PSU is a pretty good school, the standards aren’t the same as the ivy leagues for this kind of stuff.</p>
<p>I agree that colleges and universities do not want to rescind offers of admission that they’ve made previously, but I’d be wary about giving or getting Etuck’s advice that “it has been explained to a lot of people within our class that as long as you don’t FAIL any classes, you won’t be booted out.”</p>
<p>There’s a lot of wiggle room in there. For one thing, there are about 2500 universities and four-year colleges in the U.S.; it would be naive to think they’d all handle the case of an admitted senior who underperforms in the same way. For another thing, there’s no real authority behind that statement. Etuck (who has generally seemed sensible to me, but who isn’t an admissions officer) reports that it’s been explained (by unnamed persons) to people other than Etuck himself or herself… I’m not saying that I think Etuck’s assessment is wrong. (I actually think it’s more likely to be right than wrong.) I’m just saying that I couldn’t advise anyone in your position, App1ee, to treat it as authoritative. </p>
<p>There are several possible answers here, but the only one that matters is the one that you get from Penn State. And the only way for you to get that answer is be talking to the people at Penn State.</p>