<p>These colleges need all their seats filled, right? So would they be less or just as likely to rescind an accepted student’s offer of admission? Assuming the reason would be for unsatisfactory academic achievement. Also, assume that the school is a private, non-selective university.</p>
<p>If it is truly non-selective as in open admission, then it admits everyone and presumably rescinds no one. But if it is selective in any way, poor academic performance below its standards could result in being rescinded. You need to ask the specific school to see what its threshold for rescinding admission is.</p>
<p>The school is Seattle University, 71.5% admitted, scholarships offered starting at 3.0 GPA. I did email the school, the answer was general and as I expected:
“Usually, if a student doesn’t maintain their level of academic achievement then they could be at risk of having the offer of admission rescinded.”
<a href=“https://www.seattleu.edu/accepted/undergraduate/finalize/[/url]”>https://www.seattleu.edu/accepted/undergraduate/finalize/</a>
Of course, no school is going to say, “You’re fine with getting D’s and F’s”.
I’m worried because my course load this year is much more rigorous than previous years, and I’m currently failing a class.</p>
<p>The reason schools rescind when they see you getting low grades your senior year is precisely for the reason that’s happening to you - seniors raise their workload to what they will be taking in college, and they start to fail because they can’t handle the work. Schools don’t want students who can’t handle the work and have a high probability of not graduating, that’s not good for them and it’s not good for you.</p>
<p>Now, it’s possible you overextended yourself, you haven’t listed your courseload, or your just slacking, again, not good, but as far as the college is concerned, you need to demonstrate the ability to handle college level work, which you do by passing your courses, even in a ramped up schedule. If you’ve overextended yourself, by taking 6 APs when you’ve never had more than two before, for example, you’ll need to find a way to step back by dropping a course or two down a level. Which is a great idea for 2nd semester, as it’s going to be difficult to withdraw at this point in the semester.</p>
<p>What you really, really need to do is find a way to make that F go away, either by pulling up the grade, withdrawing with as minimal a blotch as possible, and/or making your courseload something you can deal with. Even ECs are irrelevant at this point, so if you can drop them in exchange for getting better grades, do it.</p>