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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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I think there was talk of writing to explain to the school or something, but nothing was revoked.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.[/quote]

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 Accepted into a competitive nursing program at a flagship school, had admission rescinded after school saw her fall semester grades, scrambled to get into a nursing program at a regional uni and was successful.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.[/quote]

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