revoked admission

annandale1
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:36:47 +0000

I was at the Amherst Alumni Reception in DC last night, and someone else brought up the question of “unadmitting” students

the dean was like a couple people got unadmitted last year. I freaked out, and at the end I went up to him and explained how I got overworked, started working, got really stressed and my grades fell and now have like couple C+s

He was like don’t worry about it … it’s only for people who crash and burn. People we think have lost all motivation to study, and may become an average student at Amherst and not really try very hard. He said I shouldn’t worry too much about my Bs and C+s. He said I might get a letter asking to explain what happened, but he said grades are only something that trigger the admissions office to ask what happened, they do not result in automatic revokation of your admission offer. He also added that since they only see my final transcript, it is still not too late to get them up

I would assume that UVA would have a similar policy, or even less stringent as Amherst is significantly more selective than UVA