Rescinded at Dartmouth

planner03
Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:27:49 +0000

I just can’t wrap my head around this situation.

Dartmouth is so disorganized that they allowed you to complete your registration, pay your tuition for the semester, and get as far as heading to Hanover for pre-orientation? No one ever communicated with you or your high school over the transcript issue, you were just suddenly rescinded en route? Did you show up and speak with someone in person?

A teacher submitted a failing grade for a course you stopped attending, didn’t complete work for, never took a final for? The teacher never contacted you, your GC, or the administration when you stopped attending class? You never received a progress report or a report card? Nothing is triggered at your school when a student fails to show up for a class for months? As a student with a Ivy League acceptance in hand no one thought it unusual that you were MIA? What kind of teacher, GC, and school system are we talking about here?

Once you were rescinded your GC was fine with it? Thought you deserved it because you didn’t make an effort to drop the class? Seriously?

Where were your parents during all of this? As a parent I would not be leaving my kid to seek advice on a forum. I would have been in Hanover. I would have been at the high school. I would have been calling every member of the school board if I did not receive appropriate intervention from the GC and administration. I would have had answers and accountability from everyone involved, including you.

It just doesn’t make sense.

That being said, I think you should be taking a “gap year” and reapplying aggressively as a freshman. I can’t imagine you would want anything further to do with Dartmouth if they truly treated you in the manner you have indicated. Did you have other acceptances? Have you attempted to contact any of those schools to find out if January admission is possible?