Hi, I’m a senior who is a direct admit to Kelley, and I’m out of state and worried about getting rescinded. I will end with 3d’s all in AP classes, (Physics, Stats, and Calc AB), and end with a C, B, and two As in other classes. The reason being is that being an out of state student, the total cost per year is close to 60k a year, with my parents only willing to pay around 20-25k total. I realized that I would probably be in serious debt by the end of college, and started working as an insurance agent and also made money in several (legal) avenues and amassed close to 6 figures which I think will allow me to stay out of debt for now. What’s yalls thoughts on this. I do have (in my opinion) a reasonable reason for my grades slipping but will IU Kelley understand my predicament?
Yes, there is a chance of being rescinded. You need to reach out to admissions.
Regardless, I’d strongly recommend finding an affordable college.
Hi, thank you for the reply. My grades are not final yet, and they will be sent in around 2 months. Should I wait till they are sent or contact admissions now? And unfortunately almost all my acceptances are out of state with them being around 10k less expensive with them being not being close to as good as Indiana for finance.
So your parents can pay at most $25,000/year, and most of your acceptances cost between $50k and $60k per year. You have multiple unaffordable acceptances.
And you want to major in finance. I suppose that this situation could serve as an introduction to finance.
Do you have any acceptance to an in-state public university? Do you have any acceptance to a university that will cost $25,000/year or less?
Except that it is likely that no one will lend you enough money unless you have a co-signer, and even then it is probably a bad idea to borrow this much. It is possible to get part way through university and discover that you can no longer borrow enough money to finish.
University is a full time job. Classes can be quite demanding.
And I do think that getting rescinded is a very real risk with 3 D’s.
Did you start to put too much effort into working to raise money, and did this take away from the effort that you were able to put into your school work? This problem could continue if you attend a university that you cannot afford and need to work too many hours to pay for it.
Can you drop everything else except sleep, and focus for the next short while in doing everything that you can to pull up your grades?
For now I have around 40k in total that I will need as a loan across 4 years, or I could work a part time job and pay it off relatively easily. My problem now isn’t much of the money aspect as I have mostly gotten that covered with work and other side hustles. My problem is more so will the university understand my problem. And what exacerbated the issue was that alongside rather hard coursework, I focused a good portion of my time in school, along with 5-6 hours outside school to purely focus on making money. This problem will not however continue in college, as I’m confident I can finance the last 40k without much issue. And yes, for now I can drop everything and possibly bring up my 3 worst AP classes to high d’s/low c’s.
And thank you for the reply. I also do not have any acceptances that are lower than 25k.
Yes, 3 D grades in in-progress courses tends to give a high risk of rescission (from most colleges that are selective to any level). What do the conditions of admission in your admission offer say?
As others have mentioned, you may have an affordability problem at many or all of the colleges you were admitted to.
The conditions are that I maintain a 3.8 or higher weighted for direct admissions. Even with 3Ds I still fulfill this condition as my past 3 years make up for this. As I mentioned prior however, I believe the financial aspect of attending college is not a problem anymore. With 100k from parents + around 100k I have already made, I will be 40k short assuming I do not work or take on any loans. If I continue to work this summer I will easily be able to finance the remaining 40k. My only problem currently is that admissions officers understand the amount of stress and effort I have put in to now be able to afford admissions and understand exactly why my grades slipped, and why in university, I will not have the same issue.
The genuine answer to this is “they might, they might not, you need to ask them now.”
As a general rule, schools don’t want to rescind acceptances - they chose you for a reason - but three D’s will create a concern for them, and so you want to address this with them now in an honest, transparent, and open way, rather than waiting it out and hoping they’re fine with it.
Do I think that “I needed to work to make enough money to afford school, so my grades dropped well below my previous standard, but I won’t have to do that again” is going to be an accepted explanation? I don’t. But my opinion doesn’t matter - only IU’s matters. So you need to go get it so that you can make different choices if they’re going to require you to do so in order to start there in the Fall.
Good luck. I hope it works out.
Is there a test where you can get an A in for each subject you’re getting a D in, in the next couple days? Can you devotr all your time studying so you can get As?
Because the issue is also the missed material, which may impede your getting As in the last few weeks of each class.
All your grades must be C and above by the time they get your transcript, which should be in a month at most.
If the Ds are temporary and you can fix this quickly, with the final semester grade a C, you’ll be okay.
As for why you got Ds, no they won’t care, so you must do your utmost to get them to Cs ASAP if you don’t want to be rescinded.
At best, I could get 2 of my D’s currently into C-. But my AP Calc grade is def still going to be a D.
Go see your teacher and ask whether you can redo any work to get to a C-.
Explaining you had to earn a lot of money to pay for college and you went overboard with it but now that you’ve got most of the money you may be rescinded so you’re going to dedicate every day till end of class to make up for the missing or lower quality work.
Also, are you taking the AP exam?
Are you sure ? IU-Kelley may calculate an applicant’s GPA differently than does an applicant’s high school.
You need to strongly consider contacting IU-Kelley admissions ASAP, but be prepared for the worst.
Curious about this. In almost all states you need to be licensed to be an insurance agent and you can’t be licensed until you are 18 years old. Amassing close to $100k after tax (pre tax approx $130k of income) is extremely impressive and doesn’t seem possible for someone your age.
Feel free to ignore the inquiry but again seems a bit implausible as you describe it.
First see if grades can be brought up but I would let the college know once you have a best case sense of your final grades – work with admissions well before your final transcript arrives. One D, no less multiple D’s can be an issue.
It was not a good choice to completely ignore your classwork senior year. Not sure why you didn’t either take a gap year to work and earn money towards college or apply to/choose an affordable college.
If this is a real post/situation, agree that you should first check with all your teachers and see if there is anything you can do to pull up your grades, as yes, there is a risk your admission could be rescinded. Schools will look at grades to assess the likelihood a (potential) student will not be able to handle the academics and drop out. They want students who graduate, succeed, make $ and give back to the college. Keep us posted.
Universities look at senior year as your opportunity to get ready for college. Not doing so is just excuses. Sorry to be so bold. Your priorities aren’t showing them this. The most logical thing is to get serious about not finishing with 3 Ds. Most schools 2/3 D, E, F or any combination you would be resinded. There are students on the wait list showing IU that they are serious about attending there and doing well there. If you were them what would you do?
Get on the phone today and talk to them. Then get a tutor or sit with your teachers and figure out how you’re going to improve if you still can.
Also if you can’t afford this school then it’s just not a good option.
As @Catcherinthetoast alluded to, if you were able to raise this amount of money, make sure that you’re looking at after-tax income. Depending on how this level of income was generated, make sure to find out how it is taxed (i.e. are there self-employment taxes, or alt min taxes, or other forms of taxes beyond what one might have based just on a W-2).