How much do you have to mess up to get rejected after acceptance?

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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<p>How much do you have to mess up to get rejected after acceptance?</p>

<p>Here are just some scenerios (that I am avoiding), see if they will get you into trouble:

  1. Neglecting clubs and your club responsibilites (president for example).
  2. Getting into a fist fight.
  3. Every single subject drops by a letter grade…A to B, B to C, not C to D, D to F (that is going too far in my opinion so there is no point in asking for your opinion on the obvious).
  4. Skipping all finals
  5. Caught intoxicated with 2 kinds of drugs in a wild party and getting arrested.
  6. Getting detentions for mocking your teachers’ intelligence.</p>
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<p>If you commit a federal crime, you will not be admitted. This includes hacking into the Harvard applicant database, or cheating on your AP tests. Do not commit any federal crimes.</p>

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<li>Extra curricular? Probably not. You were admitted here for reasons other than that.</li>
<li>Fist fight? Looked down upon, probably not grounds for removal.</li>
<li>Straight Bs won’t dump you. Straight Cs probably will (that is, if you were formerly an A and B student). Try your hardest not to get any Ds.</li>
<li>Skipping finals? That gets lumped into 3. It matters how it affects your grade. Seniors at my school don’t have to take finals if they get at least a B in the class both quarters.</li>
<li>Arrested for drugs? I can’t put my finger on what they’d do. Looked down upon a lot; might be grounds for dismissal.
6.No</li>
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<p>haha, interesting. i’d never do any of those expect for, maybe, number 1 since i’m so busy right now.</p>

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<p>How would they even know if you just got tired of something like being President of (random club) and quit? It’s not like anybody is actually going to bother sending a letter to the University informing them of your decision.</p>

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<p>ohnoes is right about that; seniors as officers usually cause a groan from underclassmen because they KNOW that the seniors are going to flake at the end of the year! I doubt that one matters much. Then again, if you had joined the clubs because you loved the topic or whatever, rather than just to have another thing on your resume, it shouldn’t much matter…</p>

<p>Grade drops will be bad, and are (as per the usual conditions of admission) grounds for dismissal if they choose. Chances are that they won’t dump you unless you do ‘significantly’ worse than your normal record, but why would you want to push this when you’ve gotten so far already?</p>

<p>Any drug convictions are bad juju. Same with fights. Expulsions, suspensions – all of that is bad news. </p>

<p>To me, all of that is totally odd. I can’t understand why you’d get so close to your dream that you’d let yourself go entirely and jeopardize your chance of actually going there. A couple more months after /13 years/ or so of hard work!</p>

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<p>yea, it’d suck for the person who is actually dumb enough to do any of that.</p>

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<p>Straight C’s won’t kill you either. Just don’t get Ds and Fs.</p>