Again, you are a good student. Just study but just as intensely. I am sure your parents would want you to get into the schools without having to worry about grades since you’ve been accepted. Get a weekend job or one over the summer to pay your parents back, if you feel you need to do that. Get a job /work study during school college and help pay for your books etc. You can…
. How about taking them out to dinner or better yet, make them dinner as a thank you.
@Knowsstuff I plan on starting now and working more during the summer. A dinner I feel like doesn’t quite make up for it because I don’t know exactly, but I’m sure we shelled out close to a thousand dollars in fees and score sends since I applied to so many.
They will still have to pay for a lot more for college going forward… I assume. We had to do the same for our kids. They are rewarding us with working hard in college, doing well. Doing work study /job. My daughter was paying for her own books yesterday…
I was so taken back it, I just gave her my credit card and I paid for it.
Yes, once in a while they will pay for lunch. My biggest award is that they appreciate what we are able to do for them. They don’t take anything for granted.
There is nothing that will give your parents more pleasure then doing well in school and becoming a mature young adult.
I wouldn’t start not doing well just to pay them back $1,000. You will reward them with graduation high school and moving on to college. They will be proud of you either way. Again… Don’t stay up all night doing homework. Yes, slow down and have some fun. Most schools seem to stop seniors doing serious work in like March /April time frame. Your almost there. Plus you might be learning something that you’ll need in college. Again, Michigan is a very hard school. Prepare yourself now for it… Good Luck
@Knowsstuff I’m going to try hard once I get into college. My parents are proud of what I’ve done and for how much I’ve grown. I’m majoring in computer science so I would say the most important classes are Calculus BC and computer science.
Just curious did your children get into Michigan? If yes, do you mind chancing me?
I give you the same advice that I gave my kid as a senior last year. Go hard until the end of the year. Pedal to the metal. I wouldn’t worry about the money you owe your parents. You can always pay them back when you get your first job after college.
@goodperson200. Yes my son is in engineering and my daughter goes to a small LAC in Wisconsin. Michigan does follow grades through the last semester BTW. I am also on the Michigan cc trying to help out. What is your Sat or Act score? Unweighted 3.8 is the avg for LSA. For engineering it’s 3.93. OOS which we are is just tough to get into these days. Look at naviance if your school uses it and see what scores are needed in the last 3 years to get accepted.
. I misread and thought you were already accepted. So knowing that now and your going for one of the more competitive fields… No… I wouldn’t slack off yet. Especially in math and sciences. Get accepted first. Lol.
@sushiritto @goodperson200. This is what I am trying to tell her. Hundreds of thousands of students are going through the same thing and need to unwind. Do that. Have some fun. My kids, once accepted, used the remainder of their high school time getting ready for college. That included continuing getting good grades and trying. My son talked just like you but after a weekend of letting loose he was back attacking his homework etc. It’s just who he is. It’s also who Michigan and other top schools want. Too many kids start doing really badly once they go to a top school. I keep telling him… This is what you wanted. Gone are the easy “A’s” without studying. Gone is the “A” avg (especially in engineering /computer science). He gets a 65 on a test and that’s considered a good grade. He just laughs at that… Math, science and computer science classes are really tough at Michigan. He took C++/python last year and one problem took 11hours between two people too solve and they were the first in their section to get the correct answer… He is going for industrial and coding is not his thing. He finished high school at multivariate Calc in the top school in our state and still found Calc 1-3 hard at Michigan. Same for physics.
So… Most kids drop a full grade point in first /second semester or the first year. In engineering it was stated they go from a 3.93 avg to a 3.0-3.3 for the rest of their 4" years at Michigan. Michigan stated a b there is like an A anywhere else. That’s their attitude.
@Knowsstuff my high school is not an “Easy A” class if you take hard classes, which include AP classes. I’m not going to slack off just yet. I just aim to get an A in every class but as long as I slip by with a B, I think i’m ok.
@sushiritto I’m still studying hard. I know the our valedictorian and salutatorian are fighting to be #1 in the class. Some people are fighting hard to get a good class rank to get on stage at graduation although I don’t need to. My class rank isn’t good enough to get a seat on stage graduation, and I’m not even close so there isn’t a point fighting for that. My rank isn’t bad. I’m ranked 55/861, but only val, sal, and 2 people from top 20 in terms of “honor students” get to sit on stage and give a speech.
I want to unwind a little bit and pay my parents back ASAP. I don’t like waiting and I don’t really have patience, which is kinda bad considering I want to study comp sci.
His school is the number one school in the state and an all honors school with APs. I just meant there were classes he didn’t need to hard for since it came to him easily. At Michigan you need to study hard for good grades especially in your field.
Anyone got any more opinions?
Mostly already said, but here is a generic answer: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/2122350-faq-rescission-of-admission-offers.html .
Anyone else have anymore comments? What about wait-list? Does 2nd semester matter for wait-list?
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I’m at risk of getting a C in a regular class and I’m still waiting to hear back from reach schools like some of the ivies. Will that bite me if they see one C?
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