<p>so any of you hear of anyone actually getting revoked?
if so,
1. what college
2. why
3. when'd they hear
4. what'd they do about it</p>
<p>thanks... i'm terrified of getting revoked...
i'm trying my best but my best isn't really cutting it this year, especially for my classes.</p>
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<li>Brown U</li>
<li>D in Calculus</li>
<li>early July after grades were posted in late June</li>
<li>Went to a different school</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Pomona</li>
<li>C in calculus on mid year report after ED acceptance</li>
<li><p>Had guidance counselor intervene. Much back and forth. Brought her grade up to a B and Pomona backed down</p></li>
<li><p>San Diego State U</p></li>
<li><p>GPA slipped below 2.9 in second semester senior year (applied with a 3.4 GPA)</p></li>
<li><p>early June after final grades were posted</p></li>
<li><p>went to a different school</p></li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li> She lied on her app, said her mom died in a car accident</li>
<li> Some time before classes started</li>
<li> Attended Tufts</li>
</ol>
<p>Gina Grant murdered her mother, did her time, but Harvard rescinded anyway.</p>
<p>How do you just "attend another school"? I don't understand...isn't the standard reply date May 1?</p>
<p>Just tell another college that accepted you that you made a mistake not choosing them and beg them to take you (you usually have to provide more details). If you do it early enough and have a valid enough reason, they'll let you in (or if it's too late, they can ask you to take a gap year and come the next year).</p>
<ol>
<li> Harvard</li>
<li> Amid publicity it was determined that student had plagarized in a newspaper essay</li>
<li> Late spring</li>
<li> I think she went to school overseas</li>
</ol>
<p>Blair Hornstine</p>
<p>"Gina Grant murdered her mother, did her time, but Harvard rescinded anyway."</p>
<p>That's because she lied on her application by saying she'd never been convicted of a crime. Apparently Gina Grant was an abuse victim, so there were mitigating circumstances. If she had explained that on her application, she may still have gotten accepted, as was the case when she applied to Tufts.</p>
<p>How do you just "attend another school"? I don't understand...isn't the standard reply date May 1?</p>
<p>In the case of the SDSU student, they went to a community college.</p>
<p>Interesting article on this topic:
<a href="http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041025/NEWS/210250310/1023/community02%5B/url%5D">http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041025/NEWS/210250310/1023/community02</a></p>
<p>Pomona rescinded after a C? Will mark it off my s's list.</p>
<p>Heidi, Pomona is a terrific school. I wouldn't cross it off your Son's list just because of someone else's experience!</p>
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<p>I don't understand why. Do you perceive your son keeping up grades just to get into school and then letting them to to hell in a handbasket once admitted? </p>
<p>This question what is the lowest that my grades can go with out my admission being rescinded really boggles my mind because it seem to send the message that once you are admitted that it is okay to do just enough to get by and doing your best work is no longer important. If you do it for no other person, you should do your best work for your self. In the long run, the only person that gets hurt is the student that does get or take the opportunity to realize their full potential because they fall into an attitude of that will do for now.</p>
<p>My take here is that the person who said that is concerned with the attitude of the school, not that her S his aiming for C's.</p>
<p>Frankly, I thought at thetime that Pmona was a little over the top with that one; it didn't sound like a lazy student, but one struggling in one class. Most kids do not get rescinded for that, or threatened with it.</p>
<p>(S got a C in a class one marking period last year, just after ED acceptance; never heard a word from his school.)</p>
<p>I was accepted early decision to Pomona and on my mid-year I received a B in calc and the rest were As. Even now, I am still struggling to maintain my B-. It irks me that a C will get you revoked.. I thought it was a D?</p>
<p>I'm curious, how do you apply to another school if you were accepted early, but had it revoked during summer. My experience was that I had to withdraw my applications from other schools as part of the ED contract.</p>
<p>Carolyn, did your friend have any other factors contributing to her revocation of admission? I really find it hard to believe that if I received all As and maybe a C+ in Calc that they would revoke my admission. That. would. suck.</p>
<p>There are some schools -- typically community colleges and very low ranked 4-year colleges -- that will take applications up to the day that classes begin. If one's acceptance to Pomona is withdrawn over the summer, one is not at all likely to get into a similarly ranked school. In addition, the reasons that Pomona would withdraw the application probably would be the same reasons that a similarly ranked school would not want you either.</p>
<p>Maybe that's another down side of ED. A kid applying RD would still have to deal with the May 1st notification date, but presumeably would have a very good sense by that time of any potential issues with grades --so the student would have an opportunity to contact the admissions department at the first choice school before making deposits. Also, its probably somewhat easier to call a school that has already accepted you, after the May 1st deadline, and resurrect the spot than to deal with colleges where the apps were never submitted or withdrawn earlier. </p>
<p>I honestly don't know about the Pomona situation, but I'd tend to agree that it is harsh to rescind an admissions over a C in calculus. But of course you never know the exact situation. I do know that Pomona is a school that really values class rank in admissions.</p>
<p>1) Yale
2) Disciplined for drinking
3) Mid-late February (had gotten in ED)
4) Committed suicide.</p>
<p>Zachary Tripp was one of the brightest, most ambitious students who attended my school. I didn't even know him, but older students always talked about how friendly and talkative and open he was. Although there were other factors in his suicide, no college is worth that kind of response.</p>
<p>That's so sad. Honestly, I think it was ridiculous of Yale to rescind over discipline for drinking. While it may not be right, it IS extremely common. </p>
<p>You're absolutely right though- no college is worth that response.</p>