Will my job offer be withdrawn?

tub05241
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:58:16 +0000

Hi everyone, this is my first post on the forum. I’ll get right to the issue. Thanks for all the input.

Here is my situation:

I am a senior at Temple University’s Business School (it’s like a middle of the pack school).
I am a double major in accounting and Risk management & Insurance
Just a couple of weeks ago I accepted an offer as a tax associate with Grant Thornton.
At the time I interviewed my GPA was a 3.84, and an ACCT GPA of 3.83
I graduate in May 2012
I am scheduled to begin work in fall 2012.

This semester I am only taking 3 classes and I will likely end up earning 2 C’s and a B. one of the C’s will be in advanced accounting.

This will significantly lower my cumulative GPA and especially my ACCT GPA.

considering that Grant Thornton hired me, in large, on account of my academic strength, what is the likelihood they will rescind the job offer?

This is killing me, I’m losing sleep at night and feel so totally miserable that 3 years of killing myself to get straight A’s will be ruined by one cruelly untimely awful semester that just had to have coincided with me getting a job offer.

There are specific reasons my performance dropped, and not just because I got lazy or stupid this semester. But I figure GT really won’t care, because their clients don’t care what the excuses are when shoddy work is done or deadlines are missed.

please, please, please be honest with me. I have already told my family and all my friends about my new job and I will be absolutely crushed if they withdraw the offer.

Thank you so much.