<p>EA admits do submit a midyear report?</p>
<p>Yeah, I’d assume so.</p>
<p>Yeah, you have to keep grades up. This is actually a problem for me because my Japanese grade is REALLY close to a C and I didn’t do so great on the final. I need to negotiate a B out of it.</p>
<p>As someone who has sent in his deposit, I have a few questions. I’m feeling very paranoid about everything and some advice would be awesome.
Does anyone know if there is a minimum GPA you have to maintain to keep your acceptance active? My GPA will drop this year: from a B per year average to 2-3 Bs this semester, but my classes are significantly harder and I’m doing 2 independent study classes, as well.
On that note, how do colleges view dropping a class? I have 9 classes in a 7 period day. I want to drop one of my non-independent study classes. Is this acceptable? This is also one of my classes that I will get a B in this semester.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>In all likelihood, it won’t make a big difference. My GPA at the end of senior year was, like, .2-.4 lower than my junior year average, and I got a C+ in one of my classes. Granted, I had a decent excuse (big family event), but the university never questioned the drop in my grades. As long as you don’t completely fall off the deep end, you ought to be fine.</p>
<p>Ermmm, no promises, but I highly doubt they would even question a couple B’s (and maybe a C or two). If they for some reason do, just explain how you are taking 9 classes when normal people take 7 and they are harder then the average classes as well. I doubt they will ask anything though. I would stay away from the D’s/F’s if at all possible.</p>
<p>Drop the 9th class if that is what you want to do. Again, I doubt they will even question it.</p>
<p>I asked an admissions officer and they said you would have to have failed a class or commited a crime for the offer of admission to be revoked since the admissions staff is very sure about their decisions when they make them.</p>
<p>Oh man that is a huge relief. I can’t deal with these 3-hours-of-sleep-a-night weeks any more. Thanks so much you guys!</p>
<p>^^Please note: During some weeks at UChicago, I’ve had more than twice the amount of sleep that I normally got in a week of high school. Other weeks (i.e. finals) you can get 0-2 hours of sleep every night for the whole week. The former are some the best weeks ever; the latter, not so much.</p>