<p>Yikes...senioritis is much more serious than we first thought! Some schools, such as Texas Christian University, are threatening to rescind admission to students whose senior-year performance has taken a hit:</p>
<p>University</a> Sends 'Fear of God' Letter to Students With Senioritis - NYTimes.com</p>
<p>As is usual for such stories, they don’t say how many students they typically rescind. I suspect the answer is: hardly any. The scary letter in the article goes to students who dropped to Ds and Fs, and they are asked to send in an explanation, which has to be sufficiently contrite.</p>
<p>So students: don’t sweat it if your grades dropped a bit–even if you got a C or two. If they dropped a lot, work on your contrite letter.</p>
<p>actually, they do. about 100 students.</p>
<p>It’s 100 students who get the letter. It doesn’t say how many–if any–are actually rescinded. Indeed, the fact that it’s called a “Fear of God” letter suggests what the real point is–since the students can’t do anything to change their grades at this point.</p>
<p>It bugs me when people (namely some of the people who posted comments on the article) act like the school is treating the admitted students horribly. Every single college that accepted me included a line in the acceptance letter about how my acceptance was contigent upon continued academic success that was consistent with my performance in my first six or seven semesters. They forewarn us, so it is our responsibility to make sure we do what we need to do. A lot of the people who disagree with this practice act like once we get an acceptance letter, it is our right to go to that school. Do these same people have a problem when an employer fires an employee who was previously doing good work, but now is not? I think it would be unfair if they DIDN’T send out those letters. How is it fair to the students that were rejected because of poor grades earlier in their high school career to say, “It doesn’t matter that these kids got bad grades like you did because they waited to get the bad grades until we had already accepted them.”</p>
<p>And as Steven Wright, or Bill Mahr might ask: </p>
<p>So what letter do they send to Atheists? :)</p>
<p>Not that there are going to be a lot of Atheists going to Texas, home of The Pray for Rain Gov, or Texas Christian U for that matter.</p>
<p>^That sounds way too polite to be Bill Maher. Take the condescension up to 11!</p>
<p>Can’t you put a legit reason? I mean if it is only like 1 test out of many, then it should not that be that bad.</p>
<p>Why would you be doing bad in the end of your senior year? Wouldn’t you want to leave your high school days on a high note?</p>
<p>Why is this even news? </p>
<p>Universities and colleges send out thousands of these every year. Dozens turn up on CC, starting about mid-April. For all but the most extreme cases, they’re intended as wakeup calls, unless the student blows off the response.</p>
<p>Hatsukoi: Are you joking?</p>
<p>I just wish they’d give us a little bit of wiggle room at the end of the year. I guess maybe they do, but the article said they still send letters to A and B students who drop to a C. I’m sure this depends on the individual, but I think there’s something to be said for letting kids slack off a little so they’re not so burned out when they actually get to college. Under the orders of my mom, I finished the year with straight A’s and took on yet another internship for the summer, and, quite frankly, I’m kind of getting sick of it. I’d rather have a break and go to college ready to work hard and knowing I had my time to slack than feeling like I’ve been going for four years and now I have to keep it up for four more. I know colleges don’t really care if you go from A’s to B’s and that some of the info you learn the second semester of high school actually is necessary for the next level class, but maybe some slacking off is a good thing… Just a thought.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why it shouldn’t be expected of students to finish the year on a strong note, maintaining their academic standards and reflecting to the university that the resume they put forth was a testament to their work ethic as an individual rather than their work ethic over seven semesters.</p>
<p>Now, going from straight 'A’s to a few 'A’s and 'B’s is somewhat understandable, but the college has every right to be disappointed and demonstrate concern and frustration if the student fails to uphold the standards they set forth previously.</p>
<p>Emily, why would any college be eager to admit a student who cares so little about her education that she thinks it’s okay to “slack off” for a whole semester?</p>
<p>And why would you be “burned out” from a rigorous senior year after a whole summer to slack off and recover?</p>
<p>This is news? Seems like it would be typical for freshman admission to be conditional on completing one’s senior year in high school with the originally reported courses and acceptable-to-the-college grades.</p>
<p>It is just a warning, don’t see why college should rescind admission since it will make them lose a lot of student. If the accepted and deposited pool is larger than what they have expected, they may use this but consider TCU isn’t a top school, I don’t think they want to lose students.</p>
<p>TCU ACCEPTS C-average kids in the first place. If they’re sending letters to the blessed few A-students that actually decided to go there… who blew off 1 semester… they need to rethink their gameplan.</p>
<p>what exactly is letting your grades drop too much besides A’s and B’s to D’s and F’s? like, is a 3.8 to a 3.0 with no C’s, D’s, and F’s cause for rescission?</p>
<p>People have reported on the Berkeley forum that the conditions of admission include getting at least a 3.0 unweighted GPA in one’s previously reported senior year courses, with no D or F grades. It should not be surprising if other schools had similar conditions (though the thresholds may vary).</p>
<p>The schools in the University of California system have specific cutoffs–other schools may as well, but I haven’t heard of them. Since the semester is over for almost everyone, what I would say to current high school graduates–don’t worry about it unless your grades dropped drastically. If you had all As, and then in your final semester got several Bs or even a C, you are not going to be rescinded from any school in the land. You may get a letter expressing concern and disappointment, and telling you that success in college requires hard work, etc., etc., etc. You might have to write a letter “explaining” your lapse in grades. If you have to do that, come back here for ideas on what to say in the letter.</p>
<p>I second that. It is easy as hell to get into TCU</p>
<p>See this : [Texas</a> Christian University Undergrad Profile](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>