<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I was recently accepted ED with a 3.8, and my first semester grades will be fine. However, there is a serious outbreak of a pathogen known as “senioritis” at my school, the symptoms of which include lowering of GPA. Since this is not a recognized illness, I don’t think Cornell will accept it as an excuse. As a result, I’m wondering at about what limit they will rescind my admission? I’ve usually heard around a 3.0 but that seems a little low.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Get vaccinated for this senioritis and finish strong…why take a chance.</p>
<p>As a cornell alum, I will say that if your approach to education is to do the least possible, you are facing certain failure high above cayuga’s waters. No doubt, you have a tough schedule, but your classes this year are preparing you for college classes. If you do not study now, you will fall behind your future classmates. Cornell is too competitive to take that chance.</p>
<p>Work hard, do your best, avoid a drop off. If your best included a C, fine. But a D might require that you and Cornell figure out what’s going on.</p>
<p>Lol, early this year most people allowed senioritis to get to them and they dropped in their grades and no one at least that I’ve seen got rescinded. I only know of the guy on CC who got rescinded for plagiarizing.</p>
<p>Don’t work at all now, don’t work when you get to cornell later.</p>
<p>I’m enjoying how easy it is to have good grades because of people like you.</p>
<p>The biggest cautionary note I’d tell you is, if you just stop thinking second semester Senior year (yes a plain-out refusal to do anything that requires some thought), you will have a rude awakening first semester at Cornell. While you shouldn’t worry too much about grades, you should satisfy some type of intellectual curiosity, you don’t want the momentum to stop. It might be a good time to start working on personal projects.</p>
<p>If you’re going to Cornell, you should have a strong desire to excel academically. The students who do badly at Cornell are the ones who forget to care anymore. You aren’t special because you’ve gotten into Cornell, but you may become special because of what you do at Cornell. Right now your job is you education, so get smart and stop fudging around. Or you’ll fail. Seriously, not special. Everyone gets a little senioritis. (Please consider this tough love, not a witchy remark on your intelligence and personality, which I’m sure are lovely.)</p>
<p>Honestly, if you are THAT academically unmotivated to do significantly worse when grades don’t matter as much, I’m not sure how you’d survive here.</p>