<p>…Because my mom is freaking out and yelling and screaming at me because I got two B’s this semester. </p>
<p>yes. for real.
Jesus Christ, I can’t wait for college. At least I won’t be pulling all my hair out because of frustration at my parents.
Anyone else’s parents this neurotic?</p>
<p>I think you will be fine. There would be many, many posts from students if they’d had their admission rescinded for last semester B’s and C’s. The warnings from colleges are there to keep you from completely giving up your studies once you’ve been accepted. Everyone knows it’s hard to maintain full steam by the end of senior year.</p>
<p>But YES, as a parent, I can get a little neurotic when I believe my kids are not working up to their potential. Consider that for years we’ve strategized, invested, and often arranged our lives in order to give our children the best leg-up we can. Its sometimes hard to know when and how to gear down. Give your parents a break endure a little of their angst youll be getting packets from Dartmouth in the next few weeks that will relieve everyones apprehension.</p>
<p>A general question for the board has anyone ever heard of a student having their admission rescinded for grades lower than As?</p>
<p>About the flow of mail from Dartmouth post acceptance - don’t freak out if you find your peers are getting much more mail, much earlier on, than you. Unless things have changed, Dartmouth doesn’t really start mailing much out until mid-summer and it can feel a bit of a let-down. Once the mail starts, there will be plenty of it, and it will come in timely fashion. I speculate its a function of two things -1) classes don’t start til late September; 2) there is a complete, 10 week session going on for Sophomores in the summer and that might be demanding more immediate attention. Dartmouth is still excited about all you '13s and that will become readily apparent in course.</p>
<p>how about straight B’s and one D/F?</p>
<p>To answer the OP: I had two B’s my final semester. Nobody was concerned. Keep in mind that students with plenty of B’s are accepted all the time; after admitting people, it would be unfair to treat the student who had straight A’s but suddenly had several B’s differently from the student who had B’s all the way through.</p>
<p>As long as you don’t get D’s, you should be fine.</p>
<p>Students with plenty of Bs accepted all the time? That isn’t the impression I have from reading posts here for several months.</p>
<p>I would agree that that is an overstatement. 
Unless you consider perhaps one B+ per year as a final course grade “plenty.”</p>
<p>Of course, as Hmom5 has often pointed out, it depends whether you are talking hooked (recruited athlete, URM, et al) or unhooked.</p>
<p>bump… I hate to be another one of those kids worrying about getting acceptance rescinded, but I may be going from AAAAABB first semester senior year to AAABBBD this semester! </p>
<p>I’m totally freaking out. Best case scenario is AAAABBC. Worst case is above. Does Dartmouth put people on probabation or just rescind admission? Cause I don’t mind academic probation, it’s getting rescinded that’s the worry</p>
<p>im getting A,B,B,B,B,B,C/D</p>
<p>anyone else wanna post their 2nd semester grades? i heard that barely anyone gets rescinded (like five in the past five years? - not sure about this btw) so if more than a few of us have plenty of B’s and a few C’s/D’s, that probably means we’re safe.</p>
<p>sure hope so</p>
<p>okay, now I am almost positive that I am getting a D in AP Calculus… am I in hot water or not?</p>
<p>I talked to an admissions lady at dimensions and she said a student got 2 Bs and once C or D, and was put on academic probation after a bit of discussion. The student had to go to special highschool to college adjustment seminars. She said as long as you pass your classes with at least a C, you PROBABLY won’t be rescinded. I’m sorry for those who got Ds.</p>
<p>A D or lower in the last quarter will probably get you a warning letter asking you to explain the situation. Unless you have several of those and/or have shown a similar grade in a previous quarter, then you’re not likely to get rescinded.</p>
<p>MedSLV, are u serious? that’s actually kinda scary.</p>
<p>That’s what one of the area reps told me. Maybe I’m making things sound more scary than it is. I think it’s pretty hard to get rescinded. All the admissions people receive senior year, second semester grades and discuss what to do. One or two Bs are no problem, but she said just avoid getting low grades such as Cs and Ds. I’m sorry if that is bad news, but I’m just relaying what I was told.</p>
<p>well I’m sorry but they are just gonna have to deal with one bad grade in calculus. It is a hard class, I’ve been working my a** off for the past 4 years, especially this year, and if I bombed a test or two and got a C/D in AP CALCULUS BC well boohooo. </p>
<p>they better not get after me!!! (makes angry face)</p>
<p>idk how it is for ur schools, but our school sends the report card with ONLY the final grades, like first semester, second semester, and final exam averaged all together. Do ur schools send grades semster by semester? im confused cause im seeing all these posts about second semester grades, and im wondering if they send the second semester grades individually</p>
<p>Our high school sends a final transcript, which just shows the final grade (4 term average) in each course. I thought most high schools did this. Colleges don’t know what grade you got for the last term.</p>
<p>Some schools, like ours, are on a block schedule (ours is 4x4; think there are variations). Students take different classes first and second semester, expect in the case of yearlong a/b schedule classes - for those students go to one class on ‘a’ days and the other on ‘b’ days, alternating all year long.</p>
<p>Again, NoRegretz, you’re going to be fine. Recission isn’t as common as some(mostly high school educators) would like you to believe. A D in one class for one quarter of your senior year is not going to get you rescinded. At most it will get you a warning letter, but even that is iffy. All of these kids worrying about one B/C on their report cards are working themselves up for no reason. Its kind of comical, actually.</p>
<p>If you’re really worried about this, contact admissions directly yourself. I know from personal experience(I have struggled in math this quarter as well) that they are understanding and that they appreciate proactivity on the part of students. Explain to them calmly and truthfully(no BS explanations and no lies) what happened this quarter and you will be ok. Judging just from what I’ve heard from them and a few other sources I trust, a lone D is not going to endanger your matriculation in Hanover, especially if you are proactive.</p>