Advise needed about rescinding ED

Modadunn
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:48:39 +0000

Exactly my point Sax. One C shouldn’t sound the alarm, and so maybe it’s just Midd’s way of saying, don’t let it get out of hand…



And they mean it. Each year, colleges rescind offers to students whose grades plummeted after they were admitted. **Generally, one stray “C’’ won’t have serious repercussions. ** But make it a couple of “D’s on a transcript that had been crammed with A’ s and B’s and there may be trouble.

“It’s felt to me like there’s an increasing number of students whose grades go down the tubes senior year, and I want them to know that we do look at their end-of-year transcripts, and we rescind admissions decisions,’’ said Robert Clagett, the dean of admissions at Middlebury College. “Every year that I’ve been here, we’ve rescinded a few decisions in July, and frankly, we’ve seen the problems on the upswing.’’