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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A student from our high school got rescinded from Duke in late July for getting one D and one C in the last quarter of HS. The D iwas in AP Chem and they were going as a premed major so that is probably why. [/quote]
This type of situation is certainly a concern, but nonetheless rescinding for this has been relatively rare in the past, so rare that it's not easy to find solid anecdotes in college admissions forums. I hunted high and low for this type of info a few years back, when my kid got a D in AP calc BC (the college was not as highly ranked as Duke, more like T30, didn't even get a warning). It was very, very difficult to find much information on rescission for low grades beyond Columbia sending scary warning letters for Bs. I came across statements the UChicago admissions dean made some years ago at an accepted student event, where he was ribbing students for "sweating over that C in AP Chem" or similar, implying that it was no issue whatsoever.

Warnings seemed more common in summer 2023 than in the past. Thinking out loud, the increase in warnings plus the above Duke anecdote makes me wonder if emphasis on the final transcript is increasing now that there's greater emphasis on grades due to test optional policies in general or perhaps even for specific accepted applicants.[/quote]

You're probably right. Its also possibly because they have such an expanded pool of applicants, they can afford to be fussy towards the end and cherry pick who actually attends. Not those getting D's in AP Chem, but those still getting the A grades. Makes sense.[/quote]
With the caveat that UCs have long stood out as sticklers over final transcripts (compared to top privates), few years ago, some of the UCs were rescinding so many students for any mere technicality related to the timing of when the final transcript was received because they were overenrolled. It was so egregious that it made the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/us/uc-irvine-acceptance-rejected.html

Many top schools have struggled to manage yield since switching to test optional, so perhaps it's unsurprising if rescinding becomes more common. In my opinion, that's exacting a pretty big penalty on a kid who just gave up all other admission offers. The more traditional high bar for rescinding makes more sense to me than just a C and a D, though maybe additional context was involved.[/quote]

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