Rescinding offers

[Anonymous]

I am looking on Reddit and see some schools rescind offers if you get a C. My ds never has gotten a C but worried about AP Stats next year. I don’t understand how they can do this to students at all. It seems so cruel. I thought once admitted you were in. Do all schools do this?! If not i want ds to avoid the ones who do or it will be hell all year worrying about grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am looking on Reddit and see some schools rescind offers if you get a C. My ds never has gotten a C but worried about AP Stats next year. I don’t understand how they can do this to students at all. It seems so cruel. I thought once admitted you were in. Do all schools do this?! If not i want ds to avoid the ones who do or it will be hell all year worrying about grades.

This sounds like urban myth. I mean, once you are accepted you don't show they your grades until the final transcript which would not be until like July.

[Anonymous]

I don't think one C will do it (although a D or F might). The point is that they accept you based on your previous work and expect you to continue it. So if you have all As and they accept you on that basis, you can't stop working and get all Cs.

[Anonymous]

This was a thing 30 yrs ago. Admission was conditional on graduating HS or with a certain GPA. Colleges want to know you're not slacking off senior year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think one C will do it (although a D or F might). The point is that they accept you based on your previous work and expect you to continue it. So if you have all As and they accept you on that basis, you can't stop working and get all Cs.

The Reddit posters were great students who got one bad grade. I can see that happen for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was a thing 30 yrs ago. Admission was conditional on graduating HS or with a certain GPA. Colleges want to know you're not slacking off senior year.

It still is. More commonly, schools will require a remedial class for a subject with a low grade but there are posters on CC who were threatened with rescission.

[Anonymous]

My kid got into a T15 last year, earned a D in a class last semester and…nothing happened.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am looking on Reddit and see some schools rescind offers if you get a C. My ds never has gotten a C but worried about AP Stats next year. I don’t understand how they can do this to students at all. It seems so cruel. I thought once admitted you were in. Do all schools do this?! If not i want ds to avoid the ones who do or it will be hell all year worrying about grades.

So your kid is a junior and you are worried about a hypothetical situation based upon a hypothetical grade....

Let that sit for a minute.

[Anonymous]

Maybe a few top schools do this. My child was admitted based on junior grades, and senior grades were pretty bad but no D’s/Fs. We were a little concerned about it but never heard a word from the state school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am looking on Reddit and see some schools rescind offers if you get a C. My ds never has gotten a C but worried about AP Stats next year. I don’t understand how they can do this to students at all. It seems so cruel. I thought once admitted you were in. Do all schools do this?! If not i want ds to avoid the ones who do or it will be hell all year worrying about grades.

So your kid is a junior and you are worried about a hypothetical situation based upon a hypothetical grade....

Let that sit for a minute.

I like to think about all angles. How can a kid be all happy, accept and then be left with no college? It seems absurd to me and yet it seems like it happens.

[Anonymous]

OP this is utterly ridiculous.

No college has recended an offer because of a C grade. Or even for more than one C.

Even one D doesn't.

It would have to be more than two D's senior year and that is super rare.

F's are another story.

[Anonymous]

The most selective schools are serious about this. Every offer I’ve seen for these schools is conditional on continuing to perform. Think about it: Harvard selected you because you are smart and ambitious, then you can’t finish senior year with mostly As and maybe a B? What are you going to do when you lose motivation in other situations? Are you a winner or not?

[Anonymous]

If your kid (or is it you) are going to be that stressed about AP Stats, maybe it’s not the right choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most selective schools are serious about this. Every offer I’ve seen for these schools is conditional on continuing to perform. Think about it: Harvard selected you because you are smart and ambitious, then you can’t finish senior year with mostly As and maybe a B? What are you going to do when you lose motivation in other situations? Are you a winner or not?

They aren’t. They only care about your final transcript which they may not receive until July or even August. They also understand that HS kids drove themselves nuts to get accepted and want to chill end of year.

Sure, they will include language like you mention…but they never act on it. You have to either change the courses you said you were going to take or completely tank.

They care more about some offensive social media post vs final grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am looking on Reddit and see some schools rescind offers if you get a C. My ds never has gotten a C but worried about AP Stats next year. I don’t understand how they can do this to students at all. It seems so cruel. I thought once admitted you were in. Do all schools do this?! If not i want ds to avoid the ones who do or it will be hell all year worrying about grades.

Next year? So your kid isn't been admitted anywhere and hasn't even started Stats, and THIS is your worry? Yikes!