Low Grades --> Acceptance Revoked

Nabokov
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:24:14 +0000

Having felt pangs of senioritis from time-to-time, I feel you. But then, think of it this way: You’re an admissions officer at the most selective liberal arts college in the United States. You just rejected enough passionate, interesting, hardworking kids to fill a class (or two). So when the kids you accepted–the ones you deemed to be the most intellectually curious and engaged–appear to be slacking on their core academics, it’s understandable that you’d be less than thrilled.

I doubt you’ll be rescinded, but I also wouldn’t doubt the seriousness of the person you talked to in admissions. Try to bring up the grade, at least to a B.