Will Failing to Get My IB diploma result in my Acceptance being rescinded?

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Hello there.

I am an international student who managed to get accepted (and subsequently enrolled) in a highly competitive liberal arts college in the United States.
However, I am afraid that my acceptance may be at jeopardy because of my final IB exam scores.

While I did manage to graduate my high school, maintaining a moderately high GPA (in terms of the regular American GPA grading system), I cannot say with certainty that I will be awarded the IB Diploma.

In the mock exams, I did fine, scoring 7s in 4 subjects, a 6 in one subject, and a 4 in a subject that I had been struggling with from the beginning. However, the Mathematics HL and Chemistry HL exams this year were particularly challenging, and I doubt that I performed as well. In fact even if I do manage to get my diploma (as my worry stems from my belief that I may not be able to fulfill my Higher Level requirements) I will be scoring 4-5 points below my predicted score (still in the low 30s though).

Therefore my question is: If I managed to graduate high school, and maintained a GPA similar to the one I was accepted with (a slight drop that should not put me in danger) but my final IB Diploma examinations did not go as well, and I did not manage to pass IB, and given that my final IB scores are entirely independent of my high school GPA/graduation (and final transcript), is it likely that the US school will rescind my acceptance?

Sub-question: Should I e-mail them now, informing them of the situation?

Thanks in advance.

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No, your acceptance should not be rescinded if you do not score high enough to get the IB diploma. IB is much less common in the United States then it is internationally. My daughter is graduating from a high school that offers the IB program. There were three alumni who came back to the high school to talk about the program during an information session for parents and students who were considering the program. One of them had not gotten the diploma and did not have any problem. Also, my understanding is that you don’t even find out if you’ve gotten the diploma or not until September or October, when you’ve already started your freshman year of college. Don’t worry about it! And congratulations on your acceptance!

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As mentioned above, do not worry about things that probably will not happen. More than likely, you will get your IB diploma, making this whole question moot. But @IBviolamom is correct; you will not be rescinded for not having an IB diploma.

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As long as the IB diploma wasn’t your only HS diploma, and as long as your acceptance wasn’t conditional on having a certain score (common practice for certain non U.S. universities ), you’ll be fine. I doubt that if you had 7s on your practice exams that you’d have done so poorly that you won’t get the diploma. Totally agree that this is probably not worth your worry.

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@IBviolamom they find out their final scores in July.

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Thank you for the replies. I am glad I can relax after all this stress.