Bad behavior and laziness can ruin students’ chances for attending a four-year college or university. All the great grades, excellent test scores, leadership positions, years of community service, school and extracurricular activities won’t matter to college admission officers if a senior-year student slacks off and shows a significant drop in grades or has an incident displaying threatening behavior or discipline problems.
High school seniors who already have been accepted to their colleges can have offers of acceptance revoked when word of poor final grades or behavior problems reach their colleges (acceptance letters from colleges are “conditional” contracts in which they can change their decisions from “accept” to “reject” whenever they wish). A developing trend in college admissions is to closely evaluate indications of trouble in students’ history.
According to the 2009 State of College Admission (National Association for College Admission Counseling, September 2009, p.7), 21 percent of colleges reported they revoked offers of admission during the fall 2008 semester/quarter. When asked how likely student actions were to result in the retraction of an offer, colleges cited a drop in final grades (65 percent) as the number one reason for retraction, followed by disciplinary issues (35 percent) and falsification of application information (29 percent). Public colleges were more likely to revoke admission due to final grades whereas private colleges were more likely to revoke offers of admission for disciplinary reasons.
My advice? Don’t be stupid and make a wrong decision that may ruin your chance for enrolling in college. Be smart, keep up your grades and think before participating in any “questionable” activity. You have too much to lose.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Don’t Ruin Your Chances For College By Being Stupid
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It is hard not to get senioritus but it is very important to maintain the hard work that got you into college in the first place
Great points. So many loose out due to bad behavior. Well done.
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Another piece of advice I would give is to watch what you are doing on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and any other social media site you are on. Most of our counselors at Butler University are on Facebook (www.facebook.com/pages/Indianapolis-IN/Butler-University-Admission/292264224931), however, they do not monitor what prospective students are doing. There are some schools that actually do though.
In my position as Electronic Communications Coordinator, I see high school students write and post inappropriate comments and pictures all the time. It is something that could get you into trouble not only with college, but when you are looking for a career as well.
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