Senioritis Hurts College Admissions
By now you can count the days remaining before you never again have to smell the lingering odor of your French teacher’s stale coffee breath. With college admission a sealed deal, it’s hard to justify maintaining the status quo with your work. We hate to be the ones to nag, but take a closer look at your college acceptance letter and you will see that your college admission is conditional upon consistent grades. Hey, we wouldn’t be telling you this if we didn’t care.
Armed with a new virus to promulgate mass hysteria, the New York Times recently reported that senioritis is on the rise (and there’s no vaccine!). The article alleges that the effects of this condition are lower final semester grades and rescinded college admission offers. Dropping all of your extracurricular activities and letting your marks plunge is the perfect way to show college admission officials you lack integrity and sincerity. While it’s probably okay to let loose a little, don’t let your antics expose yourself to the risk to rejection.
Don’t forget, those high school marks will be considered if you transfer schools midway through your degree. This is a likely scenario: half of American college students graduate at the school other than the one they started with.
With tears of laughter and pride we applaud pranks such as the fire truck on top of the building at MIT, the hilarious performance of Reach! A Lecture Musical Prank during a Columbia University chemistry class and other glorious shenanigans. While a little bit of senioritis is fun and to some degree expected, use your judgment. With four years of hard work under your belt, you don’t want the joke to be on you.
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