Reasons for a rescinded offer to a biological sciences program

nakoruru
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:48:05 +0000

I have heard of 2 scenarios where a PhD offer was rescinded.
1.) Some funding (or anticipated funding) for the lab (or the particular research) that the PhD candidate was to join died unexpectedly.
2.) The PhD candidate was to join a particular associate professor’s team… but then the associate professor ended up not getting offered tenure and has to leave the school.

I don’t think this happens often. And I think at some schools, this scenarios don’t result in rescinded offers. But, I have heard that, at some places, these 2 scenarios can cause such a rescinded offer.

In regards to getting a single C, I don’t think that will result in having an offer rescinded.
At least, not that I have heard of.