No Slack for Slackers

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<p>Colleges are increasingly cracking down on “senioritis.”</p>

<p><a href=“No slack for student slackers”>No slack for student slackers;

<p>"For example, UCLA has begun to send out letters informing some students that their “academic record no longer meets the standards for admission.” So the coveted acceptances to the freshman class, celebrated just months ago, are withdrawn. Gone. Revoked. Frittered away. </p>

<p>“It can be quite traumatic,” Susan Wilbur, director of undergraduate admissions for the UC system, said of the revocations’ effect on students and their parents. The early summer timing is especially hard, she said, because by then the student usually has turned down other admissions offers and has few options left at four-year colleges."</p>

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<p>That article should be required reading for rising seniors, particularly for the type who have a tendency to slack. The thread title might even be “Beware of Senioritis and its Side Effects”!</p>

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<p>What gets me is the student felt that his D and dropping of the course should not have caused his revocation. Another example of our society’s blaming others instead of themselves. This is a top school - you’d better be a top student, or you don’t get in. Simple as that.</p>