fhg

You should be totally fine, aimee. Only worry if you somehow end up with a D/F.

amiee17

okay thanks... i'm just really worried because i've never gotten a C for a final grade before and getting into SU is like a dream for me...i'm still in complete shock that i even got accepted....

itry

will a grade of 10% get rescinded? (this kid will not graduate without summer courses)

fhg

It's definitely possible, itry (unless there's a legitimate reason).

itry

i dont think senioritis is one, unless they wont because he is a top state ranked athlete.

#theorymom

been warning S of this since mid terms grades were posted! to not much avail

1st semester: A, A, A, B+, B-, C+ (A's were actually an A+s except his school does not do A+)
Same classes 2nd semester: A, A, C-,C-, C, C-

At this point in the game he did not see the value in following through with Spanish and Social Studies - not his strong suits and not required for graduation - and nothing he is interested in pursuing in the future - so those tanked. And he was pretty much distracted for a couple of his other classes as well - A's in math and music however.

I guess we'll see....

tribee

I feel like I'm in the same boat as your son #theorymom,

except I just received a letter in the mail today telling me to explain why my grades decreased. I ended up dropping from A's and B's to B's and three C's. I wrote them a 700 word letter explaining to them and I plan on going to visit the dean of admissions and explaining as well.

I'm so nervous about getting revoked...

#theorymom

good luck tribee.

So what WAS the reason your grades fell? (practice here ;-0)

Skywalker23

Senioritis happened to me second semester of junior year. I am so worried about admissions...and really need a time machine.
I have no clue what caused it either. What the hell, why did it happen!?

Also, about the question about dropping classes, a kid from my school said that he asked the college that he got accepted to, and they let him drop a class second semester, Chemistry. Maybe an extreme example.

bird rock

Once again, I think that there's a glaring omission of information in this article. Like how many times was a student rescinded? Funny how they forgot to mention that. And without that stat the article is a joke. Then they have all these impressive looking but basically useless charts about percentages of occurrences, or possible occurrences.

Well, they do let slip one important fact: Two thirds of the institutions didn't even have a single recision in 2007. So what does that tell us? First of all, all the posters who might get a D should just chill already. Believe me, there's worse stuff going on and even that won't draw attention.

And second, they must be doing their percentage charts based on some very small numbers. It's as if they have some political agenda to make it seem like this is some big issue, which it obviously isn't. Think about it. If you were an adcom or a university president, how much of your budget would you allocate to this "problem"?

So, for 99.999999% of you, high school is over. It ended in April, and you could have coasted since then. Enjoy your summer. Please don't get nervous every time a letter comes in.

cookiemonster379

I just graduated from high school and I was wondering if I'd get rescinded or put on probation because of a D i received this year in Multivariable Calc. The rest of my senior year grades were A's and B+'s, but would the one D warrant some sort of disciplinary action be taken by Cornell? To make it worse I had an A+ in that class on the midyear report. Also, I am receiving a lot of financial aid, so would it be possible for the school to take back some of that aid? Thanks for the help.

mahomushi68

i want to know more about the falsified ec's etc..... like where does a college draw the line as to where you in this club or not and how do they find out stuff like that?

ReachForDreams

To me personally, it is each person's own fault for the bad grades. If you wanted to be in that school you got into enough then you would have know that you needed to work just as hard or harder to get those good grades and keep up your rank.

If you are running a marathon you don't just slow down near the end because you are almost done, you speed up to finish strong!