ED/EA acceptances revoked

[Anonymous]

It wouldn't happen until the end of the year, so don't freak out yet. He has time.

[Anonymous]

That rarely happens

[Anonymous]

Nah. No school would revoke over a couple of Bs in his senior year.

-signed, college professor who is also on admissions committee

[Anonymous]

OP - I'd worry about a D or straight C's in all classes, but nothing else

[Anonymous]

Now, the high school and high school teachers *will* use worry to motivate/scare. They aren't above that.

[Anonymous]

I read the admissions committee consults a lawyer before rescinding so it’s really not something done lightly. I imagine a lot of seniors going for the most difficult and heavy course loads of high school falter a bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I read the admissions committee consults a lawyer before rescinding so it’s really not something done lightly. I imagine a lot of seniors going for the most difficult and heavy course loads of high school falter a bit.

I would assume so. If the family has resources, the school would get sued over a revocation. There is a contract in place and part of that contract requires a student to pull all of their other applications, so they've placed the kid in a situation where they are relying on the acceptance.

[Anonymous]

My kid was accepted EA to a school ranked in the 30s. Had 4.0 UW through the end of junior year. Then had a C in calc BC on the mid year report and a D second semester. Nothing happened, didn't even get a warning letter.

Other kid did very little homework second semester senior year. Probably some Cs and maybe a D, though he did score 5 on three AP exams, including the course where I think he had a D. He got a letter over the summer noting the drop in performance with suggestions for academic help at the college, which is ranked 50-100 range and one of his safeties. Actually I thought the letter was a nice touch, I was pleased with the advice.

[Anonymous]

Last year, my friend's kid, who was accepted ED to a top 10 school with a fantastic GPA (thru Fall of Senior year), went thru senioritis and was getting a D in AP Physics....she was working hard to get a C- and I think got a C- in the end.

I think there was talk of writing to explain to the school or something, but nothing was revoked.

At our school, English is mandated all four years and the seniors always hate this. Maybe they have to take AP English their senior year, I don't remember the rules. But anyways. Sometimes a senior or two would just sit thru the AP exam in defiance as they were already in their college.

There were some seniors a couple years before (pre-Covid but not too long ago) who decided to disrupt the AP exam (protest it). So that whole session got voided for everybody, including juniors and seniors from our school as well as juniors and seniors from other schools who came to our school as we are a testing center.

I recall that those kids who did the protest were definitely going thru a process where their college admissions were either revoked or were trying to negotiate to keep their spots. I don't remember what ultimately ended up happening (probably because it was resolved over the summer and I was out of touch)

All this to say, revoking acceptance I think is often more about the student doing something bad (like racist stuff on instagram or the situation I described above) than floundering in a class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is ED/EA revocation really a thing? Does it actually happen?

Sure, but like another poster said-it's usually due to a criminal incident, or social media postings.
Do you remember the Loudoun county cheerleader having admission rescinded from U of Tennessee last year?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html
I don't know if she was ED/EA or just regular admission, but her admission was rescinded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last year, my friend's kid, who was accepted ED to a top 10 school with a fantastic GPA (thru Fall of Senior year), went thru senioritis and was getting a D in AP Physics....she was working hard to get a C- and I think got a C- in the end.

I think there was talk of writing to explain to the school or something, but nothing was revoked.

At our school, English is mandated all four years and the seniors always hate this. Maybe they have to take AP English their senior year, I don't remember the rules. But anyways. Sometimes a senior or two would just sit thru the AP exam in defiance as they were already in their college.

There were some seniors a couple years before (pre-Covid but not too long ago) who decided to disrupt the AP exam (protest it). So that whole session got voided for everybody, including juniors and seniors from our school as well as juniors and seniors from other schools who came to our school as we are a testing center.

I recall that those kids who did the protest were definitely going thru a process where their college admissions were either revoked or were trying to negotiate to keep their spots. I don't remember what ultimately ended up happening (probably because it was resolved over the summer and I was out of touch)

All this to say, revoking acceptance I think is often more about the student doing something bad (like racist stuff on instagram or the situation I described above) than floundering in a class.

So the students protested because they were not going to get an acceptable mark? If not, then why did they protest? I could see valid reasons for a protest, but lots of reaons why not.

Good friend in HS flamed out senior fall. Accepted into a competitive nursing program at a flagship school, had admission rescinded after school saw her fall semester grades, scrambled to get into a nursing program at a regional uni and was successful. But the downward trend kept going and she ended up failing out of the regional after the first semester. She never went back to school, but has managed to make it in medical billing and is nearing retirement. She and her three older sisters were so smart, but the younger two ended up not attending college and scraping for awhile before they got on their feet. My cautionary tale to my kids.

[Anonymous]

My DCs attend a school which had a very complicated situation a few years back. One student accused two other students of a bigoted comment after a falling out among the three of them (more or less friends from K). The two students countered with their own proof of a bigoted comment by that student and it spiraled from there. The initiating student ends up scrambling to save own college admission by ratcheting up the accusations lest all three students end up expelled. The other two students basically leave it though not to say they were not lobbying their classmates about their own standing. In the end, all three were permitted to participate in commencement, which is usually what is meted out as the punishment as there is a lot of shame in not attending.

Very difficult for school admin to parse. Some students felt the two students should have been expelled while others just wanted the year to end. Based on my kids' comments, sounds like all three were guilty of bad actions/comments and that appears to be the conclusion the school also drew in the end.