{"id":28481,"date":"2024-08-08T17:50:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=28481"},"modified":"2024-08-08T17:50:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T21:50:46","slug":"so-thats-kinda-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/?p=28481","title":{"rendered":"so. that&#8217;s kinda scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I&#8217;m stressing out right now I was admitted to UofT for environmental science and the requirements for my offer were to get a 70% in english (which I achieved), and a overall average of 75%. I ended up finishing with a 73.33%. And I received an email saying since I didn&#8217;t achieve the average my offer may be revoked. Do you think it will be revoked or should I be okay? How likely is it that my offer will be revoked. Thanks!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>hey there,<\/p>\n<p>hmmmm, interesting. most admission offers i&#8217;ve heard of provide much more ominously vague conditions, like &#8220;maintain your academic standing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExdWRyd3NtZWhvajMwNXpwcWxidnVyenZ5eXp5M2tsbjZ5bTJzdHhqZiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw\/l2SpTieA3bXHM3XKE\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"Mindy Kaling Fox GIF by HULU\" width=\"401\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m sorry this is happening, it sounds like a really uncertain and upsetting situation! but honestly, i gotta say, as a fellow student, i am not really in the position to be telling you whether or not your offer will be revoked. i&#8217;m not involved in the admissions process at all, so that&#8217;s not my place of authority and i don&#8217;t wanna tell you something wrong in a consequential situation like this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZ2E5cmVycWd5NDZvdGxxNW9ycmJtejR1ZG5jMHI5bmR6dmh3N2t0diZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw\/oaRG0HAau2X1SU7BTw\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"Season 9 Nbc GIF by The Office\" width=\"400\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i feel like i&#8217;d need to see the exact wording of that email to really determine how likely it is that you&#8217;ll be revoked. it does say on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsci.utoronto.ca\/future\/already-applied\/admission-decisions\">admissions decisions page<\/a> of the artsci website that &#8220;students who don&#8217;t meet the required conditions by the posted deadlines can expected to have their offer rescinded&#8221;. and if you received an email saying you didn&#8217;t meet the conditions, well, it does seem pretty likely.<\/p>\n<p><em>but,<\/em> i&#8217;m not sure how often U of T rescinds offers (i don&#8217;t have any mutuals who this happened to). reddit, which keep in mind is not so reliable, says it doesn&#8217;t happen often and that it requires a huge grade drop of more than 10%. so who knows.<\/p>\n<p>regardless, you might wanna prepare yourself for either situation. here are some options i&#8217;ve heard of:<\/p>\n<p>apparently there might be a form linked in your conditional offer where you are able explain the extenuating circumstances behind a grade drop.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve also heard you might be able to take summer school to improve your grade average. i&#8217;m not sure how this works though, you&#8217;d have to directly <a href=\"https:\/\/apply.adm.utoronto.ca\/register\/questions\">contact enrolment services<\/a> to find out if it&#8217;s possible.<\/p>\n<p>so yeah, i know it wasn&#8217;t much but i hope this was somewhat helpful. good luck!<\/p>\n<p>over and out,<\/p>\n<p>aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! I&#8217;m stressing out right now I was admitted to UofT for environmental science and the requirements for my offer were to get a 70% in english (which I achieved), and a overall average of 75%. I ended up finishing with a 73.33%. And I received an email saying since I didn&#8217;t achieve the average my offer may be revoked. Do you think it will be revoked or should I be okay? How likely is it that my offer will be revoked. Thanks! hey there, hmmmm, interesting. most admission offers i&#8217;ve heard of provide much more ominously vague conditions, like &#8220;maintain your academic standing&#8221;. i&#8217;m sorry this is happening, it sounds like a really uncertain and upsetting situation! but honestly, i gotta say, as a fellow student, i am not really in the position to be telling you whether or not your offer will be revoked. i&#8217;m not involved in the admissions process at all, so that&#8217;s not my place of authority and i don&#8217;t wanna tell you something wrong in a consequential situation like this. i feel like i&#8217;d need to see the exact wording of that email to really determine how likely it is that you&#8217;ll be revoked. it does say on the admissions decisions page of the artsci website that &#8220;students who don&#8217;t meet the required conditions by the posted deadlines can expected to have their offer rescinded&#8221;. and if you received an email saying you didn&#8217;t meet the conditions, well, it does seem pretty likely. but, i&#8217;m not sure how often U of T rescinds offers (i don&#8217;t have any mutuals who this happened to). reddit, which keep in mind is not so reliable, says it doesn&#8217;t happen often and that it requires a huge grade drop of more than 10%. so who knows. regardless, you might wanna prepare yourself for either situation. here are some options i&#8217;ve heard of: apparently there might be a form linked in your conditional offer where you are able explain the extenuating circumstances behind a grade drop. i&#8217;ve also heard you might be able to take summer school to improve your grade average. i&#8217;m not sure how this works though, you&#8217;d have to directly contact enrolment services to find out if it&#8217;s possible. so yeah, i know it wasn&#8217;t much but i hope this was somewhat helpful. good luck! over and out, aska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-standing","category-admissions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/askastudent.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}