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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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 Harvard rescinded.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 Got his acceptance rescinded and he hung himself in a stairwell.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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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