<p>Hey everyone,
is there anything that admitted applicants should take care of after they are admitted?</p>
<p>Enjoy high school. I know the excitement to get to college, and I always felt like I should be doing something to get ready to leave.</p>
<p>While it might seem like the minutes are ticking slowly, really take in the end of your high school experience and your friends. You will grow apart from most of them as they get caught up in their own little worlds. If you put in the effort now, it will be easier to keep those friendships going. A lot faded away, but I still have a few who are some of my best friends.</p>
<p>I think the best way to get ready for Vassar is to make sure you leave high school knowing that you didn’t hold anything back and have complete closure. No regrets. None of it will matter in a couple months when you’re on that train to PoTown.</p>
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<li>Keep your grades up, don’t slack</li>
<li>If you require financial aid, make sure all you forms are in</li>
<li>Be happy you got in, no matter who you are you will be accepted within the community at this school</li>
<li>Enjoy the rest of high school life</li>
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<p>In all seriousness, how “up” do grades have to be?</p>
<p>They need to be consistent with the performance that you demonstrated in the transcripts they relied on in extending an offer of admission to you. If your grades are not consistent, then you’ve changed the picture and opened the door for them to rescind the offer. Whether they will seize the opportunity is another matter, but I wouldn’t open the door for them in order to test the limits. The good news is that, with the college selection process behind you, it should be simple now to both enjoy the rest of the year and maintain the level of performance that you’ve displayed through the mid-year report. Just don’t overdo the “enjoy the rest of the year” part to the detriment of your academic performance. You should have some latitude for fun; but not free rein.</p>
<p>Prospects for a rescind go up if they overenroll and, possibly, if you represent a big FA drain. There’s inevitably going to be someone who posts an anecdote about some slacker who did horribly and didn’t have the offer rescinded. Keep in mind that situations change. That person might have been a development or athletic hook and they might have already gone deep into the wait list that year. There’s no need to stress or panic over your grades; just don’t be a screw up…and not being a screw-up, one assumes, is second nature for everyone who was accepted.</p>
<p>Getting accepted to Vassar is not the achievement of some ultimate goal. It’s a waypoint. (Or one hopes that’s the case.) Your next year at Vassar is a beginning, not an end. So think of your senior year as the lead in to that experience. It will be much better for you to hit that starting line with a running start than it will be to do so from a dead stop. In short, keep up the good work.</p>
<p>Apply for jobs, if you’re doing work-study!</p>