Anonymous
11/18/2025 12:56
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
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!
Anonymous
11/18/2025 12:50
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
Anonymous wrote:What are scenarios where offers of admission would be rescinded?
Would it happen with one low grade in a senior class or would it need to be multiple low grades in senior year?
Kid applied ED to one and EA to multiple but is struggling in one ofvtheir AP classes but otherwise has A or A- in other classes including 3 more APs. Would a C or D result in rescinded offers? It seems like it would negatively impact RD apps that will see semester grades, but the early apps won't have first semester grades.
How does it work if an offer is rescinded, can you contact other schools that you turned down and see if they would still take you or are you out of luck?
A D might, but a C you should be fine.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 12:31
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We will definitely be getting a tutor and I'm hopeful that they can end the year with at least a B but currently they have a D+ and with only 3.5 weeks before end of semester not sure it will make it up to a C. They did apply to selective schools since before this class they had a high GPA and are nmsf.
Is the class required for graduation? If not, can they withdraw from the class? I think a W or No Pass is not as noticeable if the other grades are good.
Also, to what does your kid attribute this anomaly? The reason is important - maybe they can switch to taking the class online.
Why? So they can cheat? In FCPS, that is the strategy.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 11:52
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
Grades went from Bs to Ds in the last semester of senior year of HS in VA. Offer was rescinded by a VA public university.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 10:59
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
Anonymous wrote:We will definitely be getting a tutor and I'm hopeful that they can end the year with at least a B but currently they have a D+ and with only 3.5 weeks before end of semester not sure it will make it up to a C. They did apply to selective schools since before this class they had a high GPA and are nmsf.
Is the class required for graduation? If not, can they withdraw from the class? I think a W or No Pass is not as noticeable if the other grades are good.
Also, to what does your kid attribute this anomaly? The reason is important - maybe they can switch to taking the class online.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 10:53
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
Anonymous wrote:Per Reddit, Brown sent a number of warning letters to admitted students whose grades dropped senior year. I don't remember if anyone was rescinded though. But I'd be concerned about a D, for sure.
On Reddit it was multiple Bs of former straight A students, but zero idea of that was true or Reddit hyperbole.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 10:35
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
Per Reddit, Brown sent a number of warning letters to admitted students whose grades dropped senior year. I don't remember if anyone was rescinded though. But I'd be concerned about a D, for sure.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 10:31
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
Definitely, rescinding of acceptances is nearly always related to some kind of offense or disciplinary action.
It’s just kind of scary a little bit how many kids get that acceptance and think they’re home free. They want to celebrate. Go to parties. They have that last terrifying bit of invincibility before they become a small fish in a big pond again.
I’m the poster who told all those stories and they were definitely in the zone where they were very new at getting access to social media and not understanding the permanence of the internet or how their words could come back at them.
At colleges of a certain level, they’re already turning away perfect students who look exactly like you on paper. You give them a reason to look at you in a new light and they will gladly throw you over the rail. Every single year they’re already facing angry alums whose kids didn’t get in.
My kid was the athlete who went to Williams with 1300 and 3.5 and almost nothing else. No ECs. He had two disciplinary issues related to teenage parties that he was up front about with the recruiters. They. Did. Not. Care. They wanted the guy who could help the team win.
It’s just to convey that when you’re A+ at what you do and it’s something the college needs, they give you a lot of room in other directions.
On his weekend visit when he said he had 1300 SATs they basically said he was the valedictorian of the team. Be mostly well rounded, but more importantly, be a star in your lane. And my son wasn’t a star for his sport for Ivies or any huge schools that produce professional athletes.
He was just A+ for the school who wanted him.
It’s just kind of scary a little bit how many kids get that acceptance and think they’re home free. They want to celebrate. Go to parties. They have that last terrifying bit of invincibility before they become a small fish in a big pond again.
I’m the poster who told all those stories and they were definitely in the zone where they were very new at getting access to social media and not understanding the permanence of the internet or how their words could come back at them.
At colleges of a certain level, they’re already turning away perfect students who look exactly like you on paper. You give them a reason to look at you in a new light and they will gladly throw you over the rail. Every single year they’re already facing angry alums whose kids didn’t get in.
My kid was the athlete who went to Williams with 1300 and 3.5 and almost nothing else. No ECs. He had two disciplinary issues related to teenage parties that he was up front about with the recruiters. They. Did. Not. Care. They wanted the guy who could help the team win.
It’s just to convey that when you’re A+ at what you do and it’s something the college needs, they give you a lot of room in other directions.
On his weekend visit when he said he had 1300 SATs they basically said he was the valedictorian of the team. Be mostly well rounded, but more importantly, be a star in your lane. And my son wasn’t a star for his sport for Ivies or any huge schools that produce professional athletes.
He was just A+ for the school who wanted him.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 10:15
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
I did heard someone lost his offer because of grades. But that student probably failed a course in senior year and it’s an Ivy.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 10:12
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
It reminded me of a funny news I once read. A girl who got into UPenn in ED pissed off her teacher. That teacher wrote a letter to UPenn to take back his recommendation letter. Therefore, UPenn took back the ED offer. But the ending I heard was she found another reference and got into H.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 09:37
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
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.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 09:31
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
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.
Omg that honest Boy Scout thing in absolutely heart breaking.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 08:50
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
One kid was live tweeting a game and made a really racist comment seen by like 5 million people. Expelled.
On another college message board for a #1 school a guy spent a few months crowing about his acceptance, made a comment about how he’d miss his hot girlfriend since all the (females at college) were dogs. He also asked how to buy drugs. It was unfortunately easy to dox him and the school ditched him. His parents sent him to college abroad.
On another college message board for a #1 school a guy spent a few months crowing about his acceptance, made a comment about how he’d miss his hot girlfriend since all the (females at college) were dogs. He also asked how to buy drugs. It was unfortunately easy to dox him and the school ditched him. His parents sent him to college abroad.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 08:35
Subject: Re:When do colleges rescind offers?
My kid’s ED school requires first quarter senior year grades and if not available a progress report from the counselor on current grades thus far Senior year.
Anonymous
11/18/2025 08:32
Subject: When do colleges rescind offers?
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.
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.