Host: Describe Senioritis and why should students and parents beware?

Jerome Cole: Depending on what high school you go to, you will hear this term being used Senioritis Senior Slump what have you. It is just a description that we use to talk about a student who has had a decline in their academic performance, the grades have slipped slightly. The issue here is that, as a student, you have been admitted to college. So, at this point you say to yourself, I am all done. I am going to State University, I have been admitted, I have gone out and bought my T-shirt. You are all excited, Now, I am going to graduate on time. So, if I slow down, if I take a little bit off, it is okay. It s actually not okay. Colleges reserve the right to go back and reverse their decision based on students demonstrating a decline in the senior year. This happens, this happens every year, where colleges unfortunately, have to issue letters onto schools, excuse me, to students, asking for an explanation of exactly what happened and to go back and reconsider the decision that they made earlier in the year. That decision was made based on not only what they saw in your transcript at that time, but what you did up until the end of your senior year.

So, you never want to put as a student, you never want to put yourself in a position where you receive one of these letters, where the decision that a college or university has made, they are going back and reconsidering that decision, because there has been a decline in your performance. So, my message to students and to parents is to continue to work hard, maintain those grades and understand that the reason that you were accepted is because of those grades. So, you do not want to give them reason to question your ability or your commitment to education. So, keep working hard and do not let senioritis or senior slump, whatever words you want to use to describe it, do not let that slip into your performance.