Let's all be completely honest and practical.

Sklog_W
Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:27:57 +0000

my math teacher in high school had an interesting story about rescinding acceptance. He had a kid who was applying to Duke, but the kid and his father were real genuine arseholes. So the kid came into his class one day and handed him a recommendation letter for him to sign which the kid’s father had written for him. My teacher obviously refused to sign the forged recommendation letter, but a few months later, Duke sent him back his letter now with his forged signature on it.

My teacher didn’t want to get the kid in trouble, it wasn’t really his fault his dad was a jerk, but then the kid also managed to get 2 F’s his last semester of senior year., and then by a miracle he didn’t get his admission rescinded (apparently, according to my teacher, Duke was pretty picky at that point and 2 F’s were going to do this kid in).

A few years later, after the kid graduated from Duke and my teacher and him were on good terms, my teacher asked how he didn’t get his admission rescinded. Turns out the kid broke into the office of the school and stole his final grade report that was going out to Duke, and replaced it with a forged copy. On a previous night he had stolen letter headings from the guidance counselor, and copied a different letter so that he could properly forge his own later that week.

So there’s my story on rescinding of admissions.