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acrossthelake wrote:So I've figured out that Columbia requires a Dean's Letter if one has ever been on academic probation. I'm trying to contact my Dean's Office now to get these out of the way, but I'd prefer to ask them to send these in one batch.

Does anyone know if Yale, Harvard, NYU, or UChicago or other T14s will require these as well so that I can just ask my school to send it to them all now?

acrossthelake wrote:

Knockglock wrote:

acrossthelake wrote:So I've figured out that Columbia requires a Dean's Letter if one has ever been on academic probation. I'm trying to contact my Dean's Office now to get these out of the way, but I'd prefer to ask them to send these in one batch.

Does anyone know if Yale, Harvard, NYU, or UChicago or other T14s will require these as well so that I can just ask my school to send it to them all now?

You got on academic probation and still pulled a 3.7+ LSDAS GPA? . That's pretty impressive.

Lol don't be impressed. Our withdrawals are non-punitive and non-passing grades don't show up on our transcript and therefore are not counted by LSDAS. You're actually better off failing or withdrawing than getting a C in our system(though I didn't do it intentionally, I was sick). I got on warning because I didn't complete the required number of credits one semester because I was sick so I withdrew.

acrossthelake wrote:The wording of all the questions I've been able to access (either old applications, pdfs, current apps, etc.) mention academic probation specifically, so you'll have to mark yes. *Some* require a dean's letter, but the full list I'm having troubles coming up with.

So far:

Yes: Columbia, NYU, Duke, Cornell
No: Yale
No mention on app: UChicago
Requires one anyway: Stanford

?????: Harvard

All of the ones I've accessed and the relevant areas of the websites have all instructed to write an addendum explaining what happened so that they don't have to speculate.