<p>Hey, I read that Yale will rescind their decision if my grades significantly fall. Is this significant enough? I just sorta need assurance or preparation. I was reading some people's threads and saw some horror stories. I don't know whether to believe them or to assume they are just trolls.</p>
<p>1st semester (the one i sent them)
A Multivar
A Spanish 5
A Advanced Comp II
A AP Lit
A- AP US Gov't & Comparative Gov't
A- Physics Honors
B+ AP Chem</p>
<p>Final Year
A- Matrix Algebra
A Spanish 5
A Advanced Comp II
A- AP Lit (Could be a B+)
B+ AP US Gov't & Comparative Gov't
B+ Physics Honors
C+ AP Chem</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply. Do you happen to know how many decisions, on average, get rescinded every year? Jeez, Iâve just started having these doubts and dreadful feelings about the B+ to C+ decline :[</p>
<p>Relax, rescinds are infrequent and happen when an âAâ student falls to a âDâ student. They are not going to rescind you for one âCâ.</p>
<p>Yale might send you a letter admonishing you, but itâs not going to rescind you. This question gets asked by numerous kids this time of year about lots of schools, and I havenât read about any of them getting rescinded yet. Iâm sure it must happen, but not that often.</p>
<p>Dâs high school counselor told us of a kid from some years in the past who had been admitted early to a competitive college (not Yale non-ivy) who went on to goof off the rest of year, getting mostly Câs when he had previously been an A student. He was rescinded.</p>
Iâd be interested in anybody who personally knows a kid who was rescindedââsome years in the pastâ could mean 1967. Iâm sure it happens occasionallyâbut the concern about it is exaggerated this time of year.</p>
<p>Thatâs the letter admonishing you I was talking about. The article doesnât say how many students are actually rescinded out of those who get the âFear of Godâ letter.</p>
<p>In my experience as a teacher (over 20 years) I have only had one student rescinded (that I know of), dropped two Fâs and a D his last Q senior year. A C and some Bâs? Donât worry about it.</p>
<p>It had to be in the prior 15 years that the counselor had been at my Dâs school. My Dâs H.S. had about 50-60 graduating seniors every year, that means the counselor had seen about 750-900 students in that time period. I am pretty sure he said there had been two students in his experience at that school, but I only remember what he said about a certain student from what I took to be the more recent past (prior 5 years). I may be mis-remembering the details- there may have been a few Dâs along with Câs. There were no Fâs.</p>
<p>The college was Johns Hopkins. </p>
<p>Funny thing is, we had this conversation with him because my daughter was worried about missing a couple of days of class to go to Bulldog days and Princeton Preview days. She had been trending a B in AP BC Calculus and was afraid that she would fall behind too much and heaven forbid, get a C, and then get rescinded. The conversation with the H.S. counselor provided the reassurance she needed to go to BDD.</p>
<p>I have no memory of what grade she finally got in BC Calc, though I know she got a 5 on the exam.</p>