eagles3601

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.

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


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

Thanks!

gibby

Your second term senior grades did not fall by that much (1C, no D's), so I would think you're ok. Not to worry.

eagles3601

Thanks for the reply. Do you happen to know how many decisions, on average, get rescinded every year? Jeez, I've just started having these doubts and dreadful feelings about the B+ to C+ decline :[

mimk6

I don't think you need to worry, but you could always email your admissions officer for reassurance.

gibby

Relax, rescinds are infrequent and happen when an 'A' student falls to a 'D' student. They are not going to rescind you for one 'C'.

vicariousparent

I agree. This is not going to get you rescinded.

Hunt

Yale might send you a letter admonishing you, but it's not going to rescind you. This question gets asked by numerous kids this time of year about lots of schools, and I haven't read about any of them getting rescinded yet. I'm sure it must happen, but not that often.

vicariousparent

D's 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 C's when he had previously been an A student. He was rescinded.

Hunt

I'd be interested in anybody who personally knows a kid who was rescinded--"some years in the past" could mean 1967. I'm sure it happens occasionally--but the concern about it is exaggerated this time of year.

gibby

^^ Maybe, but see today's NYTimes: University Sends 'Fear of God' Letter to Students With Senioritis - NYTimes.com

Hunt

That's the letter admonishing you I was talking about. The article doesn't say how many students are actually rescinded out of those who get the "Fear of God" letter.

joszacem

In my experience as a teacher (over 20 years) I have only had one student rescinded (that I know of), dropped two F's and a D his last Q senior year. A C and some B's? Don't worry about it.

vicariousparent

It had to be in the prior 15 years that the counselor had been at my D's school. My D's 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 D's along with C's. There were no F's.

The college was Johns Hopkins.

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.

I have no memory of what grade she finally got in BC Calc, though I know she got a 5 on the exam.