Rescinded at Dartmouth

sybbie719
Wed, 21 Sep 2016 09:12:38 +0000

There was a thread 2 years ago where a student’s acceptance was suspended. Dartmouth required him to do a gap year.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/dartmouth-college/1669060-acceptance-suspended-p1.html

As you can see this poster was contacted in July. I find it hard to believe that the school did this in late August/Early September after giving you a room assignment and allowing you to attend a DOC trip. For them to rescind at this late stage, it was something more that failing a class (that probably wan’t required since it did not affect your ability to graduate in the spring).

@notadart:

I was enrolled into the class in mid-March, and I dropped it March 20th. It remained on my transcript but not on my powerschool/schedule.

I am going to come straight out and say it; there is something about your story that absolutely does not make sense and leaves a lot of questions.

What system does your high school operate on; semester, trimester, cycle.

Even if your school operates on a trimester system from March - June, if you were enrolled in a class in mid-March, which you dropped, was it replaced with another class.

Are you trying to say that your school does not give out report cards/progress reports during the trimester. At some time before June you would have seen that you were failing this class?

On the last day of school, you did not receive your report card and notice the failing grade?

Are you saying that your school has no mechanism for you/your parents to check grades (jupiter grades, schedula, engrade, etc), missing assignments, etc?

Testing for understanding; you are on the register in a class, which you never attended and you are saying that the teacher in the class never contacted you or your parents during the term about your non attendance. Your guidance counselor or administrator never spoke to you about cutting class (which is what you did if you were in school, and not attending the class).

if you dropped the class, what was replaced on your program?

Are you saying that you were admitted in April, accepted your spot by the May 1 deadline, let your school know that this is where you are attending and no one said “hey notadart, your not attending this widget class may come back and bite you.”

Your school had to go through some sort of certification process. Apparently this must have been some sort of elective class because if it was a core required for graduation, your failing it would have affected your ability to graduate with your class in the spring, requiring you to attend summer school.

Most final transcripts are mailed out to colleges on the last day of school (at my high school you have to submit the form stating your final school in order to pick up your cap and gown). If you were admitted off of the wait list over the summer, I could understand your transcript being sent out late.

If you just applied the previous year, was admitted and rescinded, Dartmouth will pull out your old application and review it. They will also have the notes as to why they decided to rescind your admission. The school also lives and dies by its honor code, especially when it comes to academic integrity.

You stated that you are bringing nothing new to the table this application cycle. It is highly unlikely that you will be admitted.