<p>Right now I’m a high school senior and have been fortunate enough, with four years of hard work and with the help of many of my teachers and my guidance counselor, to receive an acceptance letter from Stanford. A few days ago I confirmed my enrollment and sent in my deposit.</p>
<p>I’m pretty much in excellent standing both academically and in the community. I’m the valedictorian at my school, class vice president and, I mean, I basically have the school on my side, if that makes sense.</p>
<p>About six weeks ago, I was at a party and I sort of, through a combination of inexperience and stupidness, drank too much and got alcohol poisoning. I wound up in the Emergency Room and my parents had to come get me. I don’t think any police reports were filed or anything. I guess the police just decided to let me go because I guess they figured I had learned my lesson (I did).</p>
<p>I was punished by my parents, and I don’t think they’ll ever quite trust me as much as they once did. Kids at school went through the motions of gossiping, as I sort of expected. Not that I was the first student to wind up at a hospital, but I was definitely the first overachieving, valedictorian, Stanford aceptee to do so. I guess I was a paradox.</p>
<p>I thought it was all over. People stopped talking about me and my parents ungrounded me. But then today, my counselor, the one who had written the letter that probably had a lot to do with why Stanford accepted me, called a conference with me and my parents. I thought it was something to do with a scholarship, but as it turned out, she had found out about my hospital visit. She said that she still stood by her letter to Stanford, but that I should worry about Stanford somehow finding out from a disgruntled waitlisted student or something. She said that my behavior should be impeccable and that I should worry about rescinsion.</p>
<p>I’m wondering if Stanford could actually rescind my acceptance based on this. I’ve been charged with nothing, and I was a minor at the time (17). The only record of this happening exists in my medical records, which I’m assuming are quite private. If someone did notify Stanford, I think it would be pretty unsubstantiated. I know there’s one or two people at my school who would love to see me get rescinded. I’m wondering how far they could actually take this. I’m pretty sure there’s a picture or two of me drinking if they looked hard enough. Would Stanford even rescind me if it could be proven? I know Stanford’s pretty liberal when it comes to alcohol and such, but is that only once you’re on campus?</p>
<p>I don’t know. I’m pretty worried. I just want to know if you guys know anything that could help me.</p>