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im attending rutgers engineering
for AP bio, i don't think i did too well for the year. i think i stand at a C- for the year but I might get a D depending on what happens
My other grades are okay though I think, 1 C , 1 B and 4 A's. i didn't slack off! bio was just too hard for me and i realized it's not the subject for me. the other grades do show it in a way that i wasn't suffering seriously from senioritis.
worst case scenario: if i do get a D for the year, will i most likely get academic probation, or rescinded at worst? if it was another AP class, i wouldn't be worried, but biology does relate to engineering in a way, depending on the major. however, i already planned i want to do industrial engineering, but we can't declare a major until after first year ends. that's why :/ will doing poorly in biology take a serious impact?
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On May 25 2008 16:02 fight_or_flight wrote:
In a word, no.
I hope not =X
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you have to try really really hard to get admissions rescinded or anything similar
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On May 25 2008 16:13 Day[9] wrote:
you have to try really really hard to get admissions rescinded or anything similar
what do you mean? like try hard to fail a class or get a lot of D's/C's?
or get suspended/arrested?
I am just worried because since we can't choose our major first year and I fucked up on bio pretty much, that might affect my acceptance. Not to mention FUCK bio since i'm set on industrial engineering 2nd year
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getting a D in a known hard class is not going to do anything to you. im doing engineering too! i have a 3.0,,, who cares gl
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CA10835 Posts
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 if rutgers was a UC i think you would get your admission rescinded automatically.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
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for (at least some) UC's I think you just need to get over a certain GPA
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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 if rutgers was a UC i think you would get your admission rescinded automatically.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
yeah of course it is bad news.  i hate it lol ><
but i'm wondering for rutgers engineering, if its enough to get rescinded
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and can someone tell me what day9 means o_O
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On May 25 2008 16:40 clazziquai wrote:
and can someone tell me what day9 means o_O
Well, I basically stopped doing work after I got accepted into college. Of course, I go to Ohio State so it's not like it's hard to get into, but many colleges are not ruthless about that sort of thing. I don't know anyone personally who got accepted and then had their admission subsequently rescinded.
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Oh okay...are my chances high of being rescinded for school of Engineering because of a D in bio?
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On May 25 2008 16:53 clazziquai wrote:
Oh okay...are my chances high of being rescinded for school of Engineering because of a D in bio?
Well all I can tell you is how it works at OSU. To get accepted into a particular field of engineering, they look at your overall GPA as well as your GPA in the calculus series, physics, and chemistry, depending upon which engineering field you're entering.
So you have your freshman year to get those grades. Providing you get accepted into the school, and I highly doubt you will have your application rescinded, if you prove during your first year you are a hard worker (by having a good GPA in technical classes / not slacking off in general classes) then I can only assume you'll get accepted into engineering.
Edit: Also, what about the test? If you did well on that I'd say you're absolutely fine. But anyway, most first year college courses are waaayyyy easier than AP classes (or at least IB classes, which is what I took), so you'll be prepared for it if you worked hard and challenged yourself in high school.
Again, I'm not sure about your school, but provided you get accepted, just do well in all your pre-major stuff.
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On May 25 2008 17:01 Ancestral wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2008 16:53 clazziquai wrote:
Oh okay...are my chances high of being rescinded for school of Engineering because of a D in bio? Well all I can tell you is how it works at OSU. To get accepted into a particular field of engineering, they look at your overall GPA as well as your GPA in the calculus series, physics, and chemistry, depending upon which engineering field you're entering. So you have your freshman year to get those grades. Providing you get accepted into the school, and I highly doubt you will have your application rescinded, if you prove during your first year you are a hard worker (by having a good GPA in technical classes / not slacking off in general classes) then I can only assume you'll get accepted into engineering. Edit: Also, what about the test? If you did well on that I'd say you're absolutely fine. But anyway, most first year college courses are waaayyyy easier than AP classes (or at least IB classes, which is what I took), so you'll be prepared for it if you worked hard and challenged yourself in high school. Again, I'm not sure about your school, but provided you get accepted, just do well in all your pre-major stuff.
your first year science courses were easier than your IB ones? lucky you! lol, mine raped me hard, and i took HL chem and HL bio
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thedeadhaji
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you'll be fine ~90%.
I had a friend who got caught making fake IDs april'ish senior year and Brown still didn't rescind him.
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On May 25 2008 22:43 thedeadhaji wrote:
you'll be fine ~90%.
I had a friend who got caught making fake IDs april'ish senior year and Brown still didn't rescind him.
O_O!!
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On May 25 2008 17:46 LosingID8 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 25 2008 17:01 Ancestral wrote:On May 25 2008 16:53 clazziquai wrote:
Oh okay...are my chances high of being rescinded for school of Engineering because of a D in bio? Well all I can tell you is how it works at OSU. To get accepted into a particular field of engineering, they look at your overall GPA as well as your GPA in the calculus series, physics, and chemistry, depending upon which engineering field you're entering. So you have your freshman year to get those grades. Providing you get accepted into the school, and I highly doubt you will have your application rescinded, if you prove during your first year you are a hard worker (by having a good GPA in technical classes / not slacking off in general classes) then I can only assume you'll get accepted into engineering. Edit: Also, what about the test? If you did well on that I'd say you're absolutely fine. But anyway, most first year college courses are waaayyyy easier than AP classes (or at least IB classes, which is what I took), so you'll be prepared for it if you worked hard and challenged yourself in high school. Again, I'm not sure about your school, but provided you get accepted, just do well in all your pre-major stuff. your first year science courses were easier than your IB ones? lucky you! lol, mine raped me hard, and i took HL chem and HL bio
Not terribly surprised... I never really took AP bio (not a biologist) or AP chemistry (not available), but virtually all of my AP classes were harder than entry level college courses (except the science ones).
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United States24780 Posts
I wish colleges were all unilaterally ruthless so that my students wouldn't be ok with a 0% in my classes.
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On May 26 2008 05:06 micronesia wrote:
I wish colleges were all unilaterally ruthless so that my students wouldn't be ok with a 0% in my classes.
cool, you're a college professor? O_O
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so i'm pretty safe, right? lol
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United States24780 Posts
On May 26 2008 05:20 clazziquai wrote:Show nested quote +On May 26 2008 05:06 micronesia wrote:
I wish colleges were all unilaterally ruthless so that my students wouldn't be ok with a 0% in my classes. cool, you're a college professor? O_O ! so i'm pretty safe, right? lol
Based on context, and on prior threads/discussions, it can be concluded that I'm in HS not college.
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On May 26 2008 05:21 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On May 26 2008 05:20 clazziquai wrote:On May 26 2008 05:06 micronesia wrote:
I wish colleges were all unilaterally ruthless so that my students wouldn't be ok with a 0% in my classes. cool, you're a college professor? O_O ! so i'm pretty safe, right? lol Based on context, and on prior threads/discussions, it can be concluded that I'm in HS not college.
lol, I thought you were a TA in some physics department somewhere.
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On May 26 2008 05:22 fight_or_flight wrote:Show nested quote +On May 26 2008 05:21 micronesia wrote:On May 26 2008 05:20 clazziquai wrote:On May 26 2008 05:06 micronesia wrote:
I wish colleges were all unilaterally ruthless so that my students wouldn't be ok with a 0% in my classes. cool, you're a college professor? O_O ! so i'm pretty safe, right? lol Based on context, and on prior threads/discussions, it can be concluded that I'm in HS not college. lol, I thought you were a TA in some physics department somewhere.
I did grade some college courses, and teach a college lab course, but I've since graduated.
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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
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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.
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dont worry about the C. they wont take away your admittance because of that.
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lawl i have a D..i think ;]
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thedeadhaji
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if worst comes to worst, and you do get rescinded (which wont happen), assemble your school admins and prepare to fight a bitching war.
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United States24780 Posts
I've definitely heard of colleges deferring students to community college for a semester and then having them transfer in for Spring...
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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
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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).
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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
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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.
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haha in my first post i said im going to rutgers for engineering o_O (as an undergrad)
-_-;;
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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:
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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.
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On May 26 2008 18:11 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +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.
Neither is a very good measure,
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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.
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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
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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.
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I had a friend who got into UC Berkeley and then got a D from his AP English teacher (who was a bitch, but that's besides the point). It was not as small a deal as you guys are making it out to be. He eventually worked it out with the admissions people who said he could go to Cal but would be on a very tight leash in his first semester there.
I had another friend who received a scholarship to play golf at Arizona State. He got a D in Chinese (of all classes) and they were talking about revoking his scholarship/admission, but eventually he argued that his teacher was wrong and my high school administration backed him up.
The worst case was a friend who received a D in Spanish and was previously accepted to UC Santa Cruz. He had his admissions revoked and now he's studying at a community college in San Francisco while helping to coach our high school football team.
I don't mean to dishearten you at all, but understand that it's not a small deal. For universities, seeing a student slack off is a warning sign for things to come. The best thing to do is to go to your teacher and work something out...they understand that that kind of grade at this point in the year can often ruin a student's future. If that's not at all possible, talk to your guidance counselor and see if Rutgers is any different from the schools I mentioned from above. If you, you should be fine, but if not, then you might have to call the admissions people and explain yourself.
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On May 27 2008 06:34 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +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.
first or second semester mainly
whatever, either way taking the classes at a community college would not be that big of a deal
it'd be disruptive and would suck, but it could be worse
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On May 27 2008 08:25 KOFgokuon wrote:Show nested quote +On May 27 2008 06:34 micronesia wrote: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. first or second semester mainly whatever, either way taking the classes at a community college would not be that big of a deal it'd be disruptive and would suck, but it could be worse Try third semester (unless you are 'ahead')
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I asked someone who was in Rutgers Engineering last year.
He said
don't be worried. you'll be fine. i got one F and D the last two marking periods in one of my classes my senior year and they didn't revoke it.. you'll be fine.
:o
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my friend got alot of Cs and Ds 2nd semester and carnegie mellon didnt take his acceptance away
maybe if u got arrested or something they would kick you out
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bump! lol
my counselor is going to write me a letter to the university explaining how that 1 bad grade doesnt reflect the kind of student i am, blah blah
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