<p>I'm a second semester senior now, and for the past couple weeks, I've found myself procrastinating badly and feeling extremely apathetic about my academic performance. I'm aiming for some Ivy League Schools, Stanford, and Duke during the RD round, but just how low would I have to go to for there to be any possibility of my admissions being revoked? After first semester of senior year, I have a 3.9 GPA, with a good number of AP/advanced classes. I even got an award for having the highest weighted GPA among juniors last school year. Also, does past experience generally show that senioritis wears off by the time students start their freshman year of college?</p>
<p>Perhaps the following scenario can provide you with some motivation. Suppose on April 1st the results for your dream schools are a couple of wait lists and the rest are denials. This is not unrealistic in this day of hyper-competitive admissions to very select schools. At that point your grades for this term will be germane for whether or not you get off the wait lists.</p>
<p>Yeah man. They will be frigging GERMANE!</p>
<p>cool word. </p>
<p>Here’s an idea. Stop posting here, and go and work.</p>
<p>My college counselor specifically told me that if I am waitlisted, they won’t see my second semester grades.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m fairly sure that colleges do not ask for your final transcript unless you are accepted. However there was a story on CC that I saw recently about a student who received four B’s second semester and ended up having to defer admission to Yale for one year. I can’t find it right now but I will post the link if I do.</p>
<p>By the way Idiosyncra3y…why are you so negative? Geez…</p>
<p>I just clicked this because it said 't’its.</p>
<p>Haha, this is CC.</p>
<p>Its true that the school will not require a transcript with your current term grades if you are wait-listed. But the people who gain admissions off of wait-lists generally send the school an update of their recent accomplishments and if your competition demonstrates that they are not undergoing senioritis by showing that they have maintained their grades and you cannot, then you will be at a competitive disadvantage.</p>
<p>^This. Don’t completely fall apart.</p>