with these grades, will i get admission rescinded? - Page 2

shoebox10 · 04-09-2008, 05:01 PM

Transfers can't slip much at all. There's too few spaces. But for high schoolers, I doubt a C or two would do much. I had a friend who got a C in AP Calc AB and in AP English and went to Duke without anything. She was totally 110% stunned she didn't get anything, but most schools understand. A D will do you in. A D and a C might actually push it over the edge.

vistany · 04-09-2008, 05:30 PM

Shoe; "Slipping" is a relative term. Lets face it, Tech is easier than Emory when it come to grades. With all due respect, you are not really in a position to say what first years face in terms of grade degradation. My evidence is that others disagree with you.

hazelorb · 04-09-2008, 05:31 PM

i didn't take anything but easy astro in college AND i didnt take science my sr yr. prob solved.

vistany · 04-09-2008, 06:03 PM

Hazel, with that strategy of course rigor I find it interesting you feel entitled to jump on Barrett 08 over trouble with an IB HL.

As always, you lead by example.

galoisien · 04-09-2008, 06:09 PM

Do you guys have a vendetta or something?

Anyway, what scale are you people using? 90+ = A? 93+?

vistany · 04-09-2008, 06:14 PM

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Anyway, what scale are you people using? 90+ = A? 93+?

In my school district an A = 94. Fairfax County in Northern Virginia.

galoisien · 04-09-2008, 06:47 PM

Do they look at letter grades more than numbers as far as rescindence warnings go?

For example, which would one choose -- 5 B's all hovering near the A mark, or 2 B's hovering near a C? Suppose your average was 94. Second semester, your average is still 95, except now the standard deviation is much larger. Say 5 100's and 1 70 (a D-!). A concern?

I'm just planning for worst case scenarios. I think in two months I'll see this all as silly.

It's just a curiosity as well.

shoebox10 · 04-09-2008, 07:12 PM

Vistany: VT engineering was not easy to avoid slippage. And, it's not like I was on caliber with schools like UVA when applying as a freshman, I just chose not to apply to UVA at that time. Stop knocking down VT's engineering. And, coming from NoVa, I knew 20 people from my high school that came here, and quite a few lets their grades drop senior year and are open about it. Two Cs, especially if they're in AP classes, normally would not do someone in, especially if those classes were Bs at midterms.
Maybe before launching comments that have nothing to do with the post, attacking a member who has been on here for awhile (and that awhile includes watching the first years apply and be accepted/WL/rejected last year) you might take a step back and think it may be different. I never said much different from Hazelorb anyways, other than I didn't point out specifically that they'd send a letter asking. But a couple of Cs won't get your admission rescinded, just questioned. A D or a slew of Cs will. I don't see the problem here...

vistany · 04-09-2008, 07:44 PM

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And, it's not like I was on caliber with schools like UVA when applying as a freshman,

After patiently listening to you wring your hands about your transfer last year I assumed as much.

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Stop knocking down VT's engineering

Please don't put words in my mouth. Having been accepted to VT's honors college with a full ride , I would never defame VT. The ppl there are amongst the most gracious folks I have ever met. Despite 9 acceptances, including an Ivy and other selective schools, VT is near to my heart. I take exception to your twisting my words to suit your needs.

My point was, and remains, you have no experience with first year admissions, and seem to hold a different view from those that do.

galoisien · 04-09-2008, 07:53 PM

You know it's an implicit vendetta when the participants remember each other's words from last year and uses them against each other in conversation.

vistany · 04-09-2008, 08:04 PM

galoisien, I apologize if you find my words unsettling. With that said I feel it is wrong for ppl to forget the agony of first year admissions, feeling free to lecture and chastise others, when only a short time ago these same ppl were worried for themselves.

I would only ask that you consider the words accuracy and evidence in lieu of the word "vendetta".

Thanks.

galoisien · 04-09-2008, 08:05 PM

There are friendlier ways to chide someone.

I'm not dismissing the validity of you argument (though neither am I endorsing it.)

vistany · 04-09-2008, 08:11 PM

I would suggest that you are merely watching the trailer rather than having read the book.

Accuracy does not require an endorsement. It simply is.

Best.

shoebox10 · 04-09-2008, 08:41 PM

I don't think I'm lecturing or chastising anyone on first year admissions. Maybe the original OP, but so did others. He let his grades drop into the D range, and that's not such a good idea for anyone. And if people can explain a few Cs if asked, it's not the end of the world. I don't think I was being negative, at all, only suggestive, until I was attacked for helping. I have been nothing but supportive and providing truthful, helpful information, which is what anyone going through an admissions wants.
And, just because I didn't go through UVA first year admissions doesn't make me dumb on this issue. At least I've seen first year admissions twice, once through experience and once through observing.

hazelorb · 04-09-2008, 08:47 PM

i took graduate level math my first year instead. geez. quote me correctly!

anyways, everyone on this board needs to lighten up.

back to OP - reeeeally try and get that D up. it's problematic. it's great that you've gotten so many of your other grades up though! but a D is harsh.