Committed to mid tier Big10 school (Penn State, Ohio State etc.) for business. Awarded a good amount of scholarship - about 20k a year. However, senioritis hit hard. Will prob end with 2 C’s and a D, possibly getting an F instead of a D if my final doesn’t go well. Rest A’s and B’s.
Two questions: Am I in serious danger of getting rescinded? and if not rescinded, could I lose my scholarship? The scholarship is the only reason I’m able to attend. Doing the very best I can right now to raise grades.
My suggestion is you get ahead of this, initiate contact, make it clear you would be fine being put on academic probation, and so on, rather than just sending in your final transcript and crossing your fingers.
Call the admissions office and initiate the conversation. You probably wouldn’t get rescinded for the 2 C’s, but for the D (or worse yet, F) you could be. If you have not yet taken the final in that class where you’re doing so poorly, can you get intensive tutoring and study like crazy, and make sure it’s not an F, and hopefully bring it up to a C?
Did they send you anything after your midyear transcript was sent in January/February? One of my friends got a letter from Virginia Tech stating that if he did not improve his grades in his senior classes to reflect his transcript he sent for admissions that they would be rescinding their offer of acceptance. It gave him enough time to pull his low Cs up to high Bs and he’s fine now. If your school send you that warning type of letter and you haven’t improved your grades then they may very well pull your acceptance or take away your scholarship. I would do as others have suggested, contact your admissions counselor or advisor if you have one already, talk to your teachers about maybe completing some extra credit to bring everything up to at least high Cs, and honestly start looking at CCs for the fall and what requirements this college has for transferring in. I hope it all works out for you!
Definitely call admissions. We just met with an admissions officer at a public flagship and she went over this exact scenario. She said, “once you are accepted and have committed we are excited for you to join us. You are one of our family. If something happens your senior year and your grades fall, reach out! We want to help you. But if you don’t, that feels like a violation of trust, like you are hiding something from us and that is not good.”
Can you take summer school classes (in your high school or school district) to replace the lower grades on your transcript? You’d still need to communicate with your college and scholarship program, but if you could tell them that this is the plan, then they might be more willing to work with you.
What is the class? That might matter too - if it’s an elective vs. say a math or science.
Yep, you should ask - so you can be ahead of it.
Worst case, you go the community college route and get back there. Or go to class in summer and attend the local, regional all access, four year school.
And make sure you learned your lesson for senior year in college.
I am a stranger and don’t know you but am more concerned about the burnout than the grades. Maybe a gap year or a year with a couple of community college classes wouldn’t be a bad thing. I hope your summer plans will somehow be replenishing.