Generally speaking, your student needs to avoid failing. Admission can be and will be revoked for failing…Cs, not so much, but it depends on the college. Your best bet is to get academic advisors involved. Good luck.
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Thank you, @DivineMarshmallow . By “failing” you mean D and F right?
By academic advisor, you mean the college admission consultant or the high school counselor?
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I reached out to our school’s counselor (note lots of kids go to top 20s, 100s at the school - counselors are quite knowledgeable) as my kid was doing very poorly in one class during the winter and she said it is vanishingly rare kids offers are actually rescinded and certainly slides from B+ to a B- as senior is very common.
I think as long as not Ds or Fs you are fine. Obviously schools can do what they want and have right to revoke admission, but looking at it from their view point, it is a lot of work if they do:)
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Does the transcript show all quarter grades or just one final grade for year? Ours only shows final for year and while my son has slipped to a couple Cs this semester most will average to Bs except for one that is a D but will average to a C+. He swears he’s got that D covered and it’ll average to a B when all is said and done(we’ve got one week left here!) , but I just keep telling myself that even if C+, a college will understand. Especially for an AP. Sending good thoughts that all will be fine. I’m with others that if it’s not Ds or Fs, it’s probably gonna be fine. But reaching out to college and asking may help your anxiety. One of our letters said specifically nothing under a C so maybe the college will have a baseline to tell you when to worry and how to go about reporting it. Fingers crossed for yall. I understand the stress. Hugs!
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I would not recommend the student or parent reach out to the college, anything they say will just be a high level pat answer….no one will make a judgment without seeing final grades.
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Start with your high school counselor and go from there. It is going to be very college specific so hard to give you concrete answers.
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If D25 passes her APs with 4s or higher this year, she will have a total of 21 semester credits are her school. Interestingly, AP Euro with a score of 4 gives her 6 credits in history and unless her major requires it, she won’t have to take history at all in college. I am really amazed. Has anyone else started looking at how many credits your kids will clear?
I know there is a debate over to retake math/science when they are math/science majors, but she signs up the last week of June (which feels early to me!). When do all your kids sign up for their college classes?
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My son will have 32 credits but only some of those will count toward GEs. The rest are just elective credits. He is bummed that no AP (Lang or Lit) counts toward the writing class requirement. But, he will have sophomore standing which I think will help with registration for the spring. He registers for fall classes on June 9
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Mine has to finish online orientation to get scheduled for an advisor mtg and then after advisor mtg can then register for classes. Seems those advisor mtgs are starting in late May for some. So registration for classes is starting this month!
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Thank you. The final transcript will show just the final grades of the year.
Though, during application process the high school sent to the universities the first quarter (all A and B) and second quarter grades (when my son has 3 Cs).
He is now studying much more in the remaining 3 weeks.
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Interesting to read all the different ways schools handle freshman registration. D25 had to fill out an extensive enrollment survey that asked about AP/DE classes, ranked choices for first year seminar classes, and core classes, etc. Then an academic advisor will create her first semester schedule. She will be able to see it at the beginning of August and changes can be made then if necessary.
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Don’t know how you guys are doing but even after school is done yesterday, we are stressed out. D25 really took the worst time to exhibit senioritis, she has two Ds on her final grade sheet for the second semester. Northeastern says there should be no grades less than a C in the final transcript, so we are worried her offer will be rescinded. She is going Monday to see the two teachers and try to get the grades up. Fingers crossed.
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One possibility is to reach out or have your S25 reach out to their guidance counselor, subject area teachers, or friends that are doing well in subjects/classes, and/or ask around and see if there are any tutors in your area that can help support their studying over the next few weeks. Sometimes an extra support can help give the student a little more motivation to study more on their own, in addition to the direct help they give. It’s a marathon through HS, and a little boost when they hit the wall can help at the end. If tutors are not available, trusted friend or extra help-time from teachers may be available if they are comfortable asking for help and can self-advocate.
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My daughter will have 52 credits between dual credit and AP. She doesn’t plan to retake any math, but is considering retaking 4th semester German and then not jumping ahead in any physics or chem classes. She feels that even though her grades were A’s she would want to have more exposure/instruction in those subjects.
When she was making her final decision between schools she had a spread sheet to figure out which of her credits from high school would cover requirements at each school.
My daughter is attending her NSO and registering for classes on June 9/10.
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Yes - I think mine will have 13 credits (depends on how APs turn out) but I discovered RIT takes CLEP credits, and some count for actual requirements/courses! I was shocked. Kid is really really knowledgeable on a couple of topics so am contemplating having them take the tests for the credits over summer - I don’t think it will take much prep and I think there is advantage so they can be “second year” for course selection for second semester and means they probably can have an easier load some of their very hard engineering semesters (I assume?).
In terms of course selection, their academic advisor selects 1st years’s schedules on their behalf for fall to ensure you are in right major courses, and assigns an elective that you can then go switch if you want. Seems odd on the latter, but apparently it works? They do look at your transcripts/APs etc to do so. The send it to you in August before you get there (and after AP score reports arrive)…
I think freshman fall my kid only has one open elective (all major courses and intro writing). It only works that way for freshman fall, after that students do it all themselves in the portal or whatever.
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If your kid is interested in CLEP exams, check out Modern States because once you complete one of their online courses, they give you a free voucher to use when registering with College Board to take the CLEP exam for that subject. The online courses are free.
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That’s not early, really.
If my kid was going to one of our instate publics, course signup would have been any point on or after 10 April, for example.
Instead C25 will be signing up for classes—aside from the 1st-year seminar, which has already been selected—at orientation, which seems to be a very common practice…And C25’s orientation is in mid-June (which is their second session, the first orientation session will have been early June).
And on the question of how many credits, C25 will have 64 credits, of which 33 count for gen-eds. This is fortunate, because it will make pursuing a double baccalaureate (a BA and a BS, each in different majors) rather than a double major (a BA or BS with two different majors) possible.
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Every time I come here, maybe once a week, there are 300 more posts! I try to skim them all….. DS had JROTC awards banquet last Saturday. It’s really nice and has a lot of Senior recognition. An alum from USMMA gave a speech and presented his appointment. Then Sunday I ran a half marathon, inlaws were in town and it’s been very busy. Prom was yesterday but DS had no interest in going. He has basically had no interest in high school this year. His best friend graduated last year. He didn’t play tennis. JROTC is not his social scene so his year has been going to the gym with his best friend who graduated and playing video games with a friend from his class. I am hoping he has a larger friend group at USMMA. He is one of those people who is nice to everyone, but doesn’t have a group. My husband was at our local craft brewhouse yesterday talking to someone and their daughter and friend from his school and one girl said so and so is in love with him - he didn’t know who she was. But she’s captain of the girls flag football team, plays softball and is gorgeous. He is oblivious. I am sad he wasn’t really into HS stuff. But neither was DD23 and she is thriving in college. He marches to the beat of his own drum.
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Interesting. Our registration is June 16 through July 18. I don’t know how we will know which classes though without some of the AP scores. Our school uses “courses” not credits. With all 4’s, C25 would have 9 courses, but as others have mentioned many are only general credits, but Calc would count big time for math, art will count as art credit, and econ counts as humanities, so there are some valuable credits in there too. (for the record, C25 is expecting 2 of them to be 3’s, so that would mean “only” 7 courses.
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I need to vent. Prom was tonight. Been divorced since D25 was 3 and her dad and I live less than 10 minutes apart and he is very active in her life. Unfortunately he remarried a mentally ill witch who caused our lives to be hell for over a decade. (S23 got home from college yesterday and broke down and cried because as he quoted “my frontal cortex is maturing and I am realizing just how messed up most of my childhood was because of the divorce and stepmom-direct quote.” He asked for therapy which I am helping him set up next week.) His dad moved out a year ago and the divorce to the witch was final in August and he seems to be headed to a better place mentally and I hope his relationship with the kids improves.
But as I said, prom was tonight. Dad’s new gf of a year maybe (they met just a few weeks after he moved out) has been to I think 2 other kids events. Tonight he formally introduced her to me and my husband (who I have been with for almost 15 years). She then proceeded to push her way front and center of the line for every photo. To the point where all the actual parents had to take their photos over her head or at side angles. Most of us moms got to the point where it looked like new gf was finally done taking her shots and then just walked in front of her to take our own. Gf was oblivious to moving out of the way. She kept telling me “I will make sure to send these all to you” which yes is nice but um, how about you just get the hell out of my way so I can take my own photos of MY daughter. (No she does not have a fancy camera and my phone takes excellent photos too so not sure why she thought her phone photos would be so superior to mine but we shall see.) Meanwhile my daughter’s dad is standing behind everyone with his gf’s 2 emotional support dogs not taking any of his own pics.
Divorce is never easy and blending families is hard sometimes. More people to love my children is always a good thing. But this being the first formal introduction and for her to act that way was just really off putting. I can’t imagine what she will be like when D25 goes to college. I just felt like she was trying to take away what should be special moments for me as my baby graduates next month.
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