On May 25 2008 16:19 LosingID8 wrote:
sorry but a D is bad news. if rutgers was a UC i think you would get your admission rescinded automatically. the As and B are obviously fine but the C doesn't help your case at all.

good luck

Are you serious? Don't listen to this guy at all. I don't know anyone who got their admissions rescinded; I'm convinced that it's a line that guidance counselors feed their students to keep them in line. Unless you flunk a class or get straight D's I don't think you have to worry. Talk to you guidance counselor or the admissions office at rutgers about possible pre-emptive steps. But you really shouldn't stress out too much

fight_or_flight

United States3988 Posts

May 25 2008 23:08 GMT

#25

The fact is that I would think most industrial engineering departments are looking for people. They won't turn you down, and the school will basically do what the department tells them to.

geometryb

United States1249 Posts

May 25 2008 23:29 GMT

#26

dont worry about the C. they wont take away your admittance because of that.

clazziquai

6685 Posts

May 26 2008 00:27 GMT

#27

lawl i have a D..i think ;]

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

May 26 2008 04:21 GMT

#28

if worst comes to worst, and you do get rescinded (which wont happen), assemble your school admins and prepare to fight a bitching war.

micronesia

United States24805 Posts

May 26 2008 04:30 GMT

#29

I've definitely heard of colleges deferring students to community college for a semester and then having them transfer in for Spring...

clazziquai

6685 Posts

May 26 2008 06:03 GMT

#30

On May 26 2008 13:21 thedeadhaji wrote:
if worst comes to worst, and you do get rescinded (which wont happen), assemble your school admins and prepare to fight a bitching war.

mm ok. so it shouldn't happen..but wtf? a war? o_O

Slaughter

United States20255 Posts

May 26 2008 06:25 GMT

#31

Wait so your in HS and got accepted to Rutgers and your worried about them revoking your admission because of one bad grade in your final HS semester? Like some people have said even the strictest of colleges I have never heard of ppl getting their acceptance taken away. Unless you do something horrible they won't. And you are already in the college of engineering? At my University any student who wants to become an engineer must go through like a year and a half in college doing pre engineering stuff like calc/phys/univers reqs etc before applying to the engineering college (you need like at least a 3.0+ min and have all the required course work done).

clazziquai

6685 Posts

May 26 2008 07:19 GMT

#32

oh ok. yes, I'm doing School of Engineering.

First year, all engineers take the same classes.
By second year, we choose our major, which I plan to do either mechanical or industrial engineer

Xeris

Iran17695 Posts

May 26 2008 07:25 GMT

#33

first why not say what college you are going to ... because different schools will have vastly different policies.

for example, if you are talking about Harvard , they probably WILL rescind you if you get a D ... but if you are talking about a UC, you are safe... it depends on where you are going.

clazziquai

6685 Posts

May 26 2008 07:57 GMT

#34

haha in my first post i said im going to rutgers for engineering o_O (as an undergrad)

-_-;;

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

May 26 2008 09:04 GMT

#35

You're probably fine. Usually they use special wording if they're waiting on your current grades, like I believe the ivy leagues do. I had like 2 Cs or something my final semester before I went to Purdue. Just don't let it carry over.

Then again, Purdue admissions is ridiculously stupid and easy. For some reason they don't care about GPA so much as standardized tests. D:

micronesia

United States24805 Posts

May 26 2008 09:11 GMT

#36

On May 26 2008 18:04 Jibba wrote:
For some reason they don't care about GPA so much as standardized tests. D:

I don't think a couple of standardized tests are a great way of measuring academic potential, but GPA is the opposite of standardized.

Jibba

United States22883 Posts

May 26 2008 12:45 GMT

#37

On May 26 2008 18:11 micronesia wrote:

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I don't think a couple of standardized tests are a great way of measuring academic potential, but GPA is the opposite of standardized.

Neither is a very good measure,

yenta

Poland1143 Posts

May 26 2008 15:13 GMT

#38

Does your acceptance letter have a rescind-clause?

Even if it did, you'd have to get straight F's, and completely slack off for it to go into effect.

KOFgokuon

United States14912 Posts

May 26 2008 21:01 GMT

#39

w/e once you get to rutgers just work hard and don't get D's and you'll be fine
and even if they send you to a community college first semester, whatever just soul crush those classes, get a 4.0 and start at rutgers with a lot of momentum the next semester
like you said, first semester engineers take all the same stuff (general chem, physics, multivariable calculus) so you can take those anywhere

micronesia

United States24805 Posts

May 26 2008 21:34 GMT

#40

On May 27 2008 06:01 KOFgokuon wrote:
w/e once you get to rutgers just work hard and don't get D's and you'll be fine
and even if they send you to a community college first semester, whatever just soul crush those classes, get a 4.0 and start at rutgers with a lot of momentum the next semester
like you said, first semester engineers take all the same stuff (general chem, physics, multivariable calculus) so you can take those anywhere

Er, I don't think most engineers take multi variable calc in their first semester tbh.