<p>I am probably going to finish 2nd semester of my senior year as an IB student with a D in History of the Americas. </p>
<p>In fear that I might get revoked because of my negligence, I called the UF office of admissions and asked whether a D would revoke my acceptance. </p>
<p>The admissions officer (a lady) told me that UF only revokes acceptances if the student has a failing grade (F). </p>
<p>Skeptical, I called them back a few days later and the admissions officer (not sure if it was the same lady) told me that whether or not my acceptance would be revoked depended on a number of factors (previous grades, test scores, etc.)</p>
<p>So I ask: which statement of hers should I trust? </p>
<p>Also: would a D in my HOA class get me revoked? I had a B the first semester.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
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<p>I wonder why her sex matters.</p>
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<p>How the heck should people who are neither you nor the admissions office at UF know the answer? And even if people gave you authoritative-sounding answers, why would you trust the opinion of strangers online, whose only qualification to answer is a broadband connection, to give you an answer you can depend on?</p>
<p>Here’s my answer, for what it’s worth. Your negligence (your own word) has landed you in a very uncomfortable position, and you’re going to have to live with the discomfort for a while. I think you should put greater confidence in the “it depends” answer, because it’s less certain. If you expect and prepare for the worst and it doesn’t happen, you’ll be less disappointed and less behind the 8 ball than if you expect the best and it doesn’t happen.</p>
<p>I think you should make plans for what to do in case UF does withdraw its offer of admission. Would you go to your local community college? Are there four-year colleges you could tolerate that are still taking applications? You should find out. Just in case.</p>
<p>That having been said, I doubt UF (University of Florida? You never said.) is actually going to withdraw its offer of admission over a second-semester D in history. They might ask you to explain how it happened. They might even put you on probation for your first semester or two. But it would be more work for them to boot you and take somebody else in your place than it would be to put you through a come-to-Jesus talk and then retain you. My best guess–and remember, my greatest qualification is that I have FiOS–is that they won’t withdraw the offer of admission.</p>
<p>I mentioned her sex because I was unsure whether or not it was the same woman, and if she gave me two different, inconsistent answers. </p>
<p>Thank you for your input, I want to keep my options open with other 4 year universities I was accepted to like FSU and UCF but with their tuition deadlines having been May 4th, I figured there wouldn’t be a way to keep them as an option without putting down a tuition deposit. So that deadline has already passed.</p>
<p>Is there a way around this?</p>
<p>You need to get off the internet and start moving heaven and earth to find out if there’s anything you can do at this point to raise your grade to a C (you did say “probably”).</p>
<p>First thing tomorrow, you meet with your HOA teacher, own up to your responsibility for your negligence and humbly ask if there is any way you can make up the missing work or do extra work to salvage this semester. There’s no way you should be calling the admissions office or asking questions on the internet until you try to fix this problem if possible.</p>
<p>If you are mature enough to go to UF you really need to step up and handle this like an adult rather than a teenager with senioritis (/tough love).</p>
<p>The colleges and universities that are still accepting students for the fall won’t be the name-brand ones, such as UF, FSU and UCF. They’ll mostly be smaller campuses of public systems–often mostly commuter campuses. This kind of makes sense, if you think about it. If you get yourself un-accepted from UF, would it make a lot of sense that you could end up somewhere else just about as good?</p>
<p>Good luck. I do think it’s likely you’ll be OK, but if I were in your position, I’d be researching my fallback options now. And, as Joblue suggested, debasing myself if it could possibly get me a C in History of the Americas.</p>
<p>Already done this, went to extra credit seminars and took the optional final to try and boost my grade (our IA grade and optional final grade were averaged so I came out with a 70% for my final.) Met with him personally twice to discuss what options I had at my disposal to bring my grade up but 3rd quarter grades had closed before I realized my negligence had landed me in the D range. </p>
<p>I take responsibility for this and am upset at myself for having put myself in this situation, which is why I come to the internet to ask strangers for advice: I’ve exhausted all other options.</p>
<p>On the bright side, at least you didn’t do this in college. It would have cost your family a lot more money for you to screw up a college class. (Oh…unless you go to private school…)</p>