When do colleges rescind offers?

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Anonymous wrote:Hmm...whether a single C or D causes a school to rescind might be specific to the school.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/can-your-college-admissions-offer-be-revoked
But if your kid is really in danger of a D (or even a C), can they get a tutor and try to bring that up? It's still early in the school year.

Or drop the class? A D is pretty bad at most high schools. I would think a single C would be forgiven but if an elite university, who knows?

Just posted above. It is just one school, but I was told by an admissions office that the school would rather see the bad grade than someone drop a class because that is giving up.

Dropping a class by itself can be a material change justifying rejection, or if already admitted, rescission. For example, I wouldn’t test Cal or UCLA on this.

Absurd

My neice went to UCLA and dropped AP Chem last semester’s senior year. they didn’t give a shit

No college cares if a student drops classes senior year or gets a D or an F.

They only care if it affects the students graduating from HS

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Get it up to a C if at all possible.

Rescinding also depends on the selectivity of the school. I know of two kids who got Ds in AP calc second semester senior year, neither got rescinded or even a warning, one from a T80 and one from a T30.

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Anonymous wrote:No college in the country is going to rescind for a C. Stop being melodramatic.

THIS! Worse case they take the kid on some sort of academic probation. A previous poster who suggested a tutor was on point. Get in front of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Last year DS was accepted ED to a very competitive school. Got two Cs senior year after getting straight As in previous years. Not due to slacking, they were tough classes and he had other pressures. School asked him to explain them. He did and his explanation was accepted, thank God. Now he’s doing very well!

What’s his explanation? I mean, should it be health issue, family accident or something like that? He didn’t just say it’s hard course, did he?

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Anonymous wrote:I can think of a few:

Recruited athlete got into a fight and nearly killed a kid His parents were lawyers and able to keep him out of the legal system but he lost his full scholarship offer, was expelled from school and spent 2 years rehabbing his record enough so that he played ball at a different college.

Co-valedictorian accepted to Harvard sued her own school district to be declared the “sole” valedictorian and in the lawsuit it came out that she’d done some plagiarizing and was generally not a very nice person. She’d also done some shenanigans with full approval of her lawyer parents where she claimed a disability that let her do all her school work remotely and IIRC there were also some weird grade-weighting manipulations. Harvard rescinded.

A 18 yo senior boy accepted to his 1st choice school had apparently been texting a girl who said she was 16 but was really 13. Her mother brought the phone to the police, who took over the conversation as the girl and tried to encourage the boy to meet. They were the ones who dropped to the boy that she was 13, but he still wanted to meet. He didn’t show the 1st 2 times and on the 3d time they arrested him. He was expelled prior to graduation, lost his college acceptance, had to register as a sex offender and he killed himself over the summer.

Two guys in my boarding school. Senior who was going to an Ivy took the SATs for a junior using his ID. The junior claiming it was a prescheduled weekend family trip. You could sign up to take the SATs anywhere and it was before the online days and new security measures. Another guy overheard them whispering about it and went to the Dean. Both expelled.

Guy at my brother’s boarding school had been accepted to an Ivy, celebrated with friends and was turned in by some other students for drinking in the woods. The guy was very concerned about the clause where you’re supposed to notify the school of any disciplinary actions in between acceptance and matriculation. The Dean was very adamant that he did NOT have to self-report but the kid was a Boy Scout and did. Anyway. Got his acceptance rescinded and he hung himself in a stairwell.

During the year my kid was being recruited for a sport I heard from some coaches that a top blue chip athlete had committed to two different schools. That’s a no-no. The coaches all talk about these things and he got blackballed from the entire conference that had been seriously looking at him. Ended up playing nowhere special on a nothing special team.

To summarize, it's nearly always getting expelled from HS and/or getting arrested which gets your college offer rescinded. Rarely is it because of a bad grade...although if you change your transcript significantly from what you claimed you were taking senior year, I have seen this lead to a recission.

The added thing these days is making offensive online posts that are picked up by the college which has also resulted in an acceptance pulled.

The athlete example never happens these days for a 5 Star recruit (equivalent of a Blue Chip athlete) because college sports is so transactional. Even if you commit, you can still talk to other schools until signing day...and it's very common for top athletes to switch their commitments multiple times before signing day. There is no reason to double-commit so to speak.

This was only about 10 years ago but was within the NESCAC conference where there's a very short recruiting period between pre-senior year sport camps and the actual season. I'm sorry if I muddied the waters with the phrase "blue chip" ... the kid committed to two
different NESCAC schools in that time period with the idea he'd be ED accepted to both schools and could THEN choose.

There's no "signing day" so it's just a different process. It's a handshake type thing so when a student commits to one school the coaches share that information so they can use their limited time to focus on other uncommitted students.

The student got black-balled as a recruit for Division 3 and ultimately went to a Division II school