<p>I have a friend who has gotten a D in his AP Calculus AB class in the first semester. I am urging him to report the D ASAP to the UC schools, however he wants do report it after he gets in somewhere. I told him this is a stupid decision since he would then there would be a very big chance that he would goto a CC. </p>
<p>My question is, what are his chances of getting rescinded at such schools like UCSB when he reports his D AFTER he got accepted?</p>
<p>*it's not me, I just have OCD and I want to prove to him that he needs to send in his D before admits come out so he has backup schools.</p>
<p>Let it go. The UC schools require you to report any changes in your senior schedule or grades below a C. You can find that requirement easily by searching on the web. But that applied to him back in January when first semester grades came out. He already decided not to do that. At this point decisions are going to be out soon. He’s made his choice, now he’ll see what the consequences are. Hopefully nothing too bad.</p>
<p>to add a bit to my previous post, this situation has come up in previous years. Applicants like your friend try to game the admission process, figuring that the UC adcoms are less likely to rescind someone they have admitted who gets a D than they are to deny them in the first place if they know about it before admit decisions are made. And maybe that’s right; I’m not an adcom, I don’t know.</p>
<p>The game is going to take a turn I suspect your friend has not anticipated, however. His plan is probably to call the UCs that accepted him and report the D. Some may rescind him, some may not, he laughs at the adcoms for their gullibility and picks from the schools that still will take him. Past history on the forum shows it will work out a bit differently. When he calls he will be told to send in a letter reporting the D and that the school will get back to him with their decision. No promise that it will be before the Intent to Register letters are due back at UCs. They can take their sweet time to decide. If he protests that he needs to know, he will be told in that case he should have notified the UCs immediately when he got the D at the end of the semester.</p>
<p>So your friend will find himself having to guess at which campuses will keep him. If he accepts a campus that ends up rescinding him then it will be too late to send in a Intent to Register to a campus that did not.</p>