Can your acceptance be rescinded if you "drop out" of the honors program?

[radioactive15]

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[MaxPlancker]

If you mislead them, then technically yes. If you are going to drop out, then at least change the date of your activity to reflect when you will drop out.

 

[md-2020]

Technically, the answer is probably yes. However I doubt anyone will either 1. Care that youre in the honors program right now and thusly 2. That you drop out.

But the morally superior (and practically correct) way to handle this is to make clear your intention to drop

 

[radioactive15]

I am going to play devil's advocate.

So you have LORs from writers saying you are in the honors program but then may be telling the school before acceptance that, "well, you see, I kinda, sorta dropped out of that program." Well that just ain't gonna fly

So lets say you dont tell them and you get accepted. Your acceptance agreement will have something along the lines you must have completed previously listed academic programs. How would the honors program be considered in this? Would this be something on your transcript or diploma? Would it be considered an academic program by an acceptance agreement? Depending on how the agreement is written, it certainly could. Well, that just ain't gonna fly.

These both raise ethical and perception issues at minimum. My Dad would have said "**** or get off the pot."

My opinion is the LOR writers are presenting what they knew at the time and that is legitimate view and that you can inform the medical school during the application process that you have decided to withdraw from that program. How/when you do that is another question. But I would not risk gaining an acceptance and then having a very uncomfortable talk with the Dean about this issue that could be about how they are rescinding your admission.

So my best course of action would be to NOT mention Honors Program on my AMCAS & secondary? And then if asked why my LORs say it, to tell them that at the time they wrote it, I had not yet decided to withdraw from it?

 

[radioactive15]

Technically, the answer is probably yes. However I doubt anyone will either 1. Care that youre in the honors program right now and thusly 2. That you drop out.

But the morally superior (and practically correct) way to handle this is to make clear your intention to drop

Can I just leave Honors Program out of my AMCAS /secondary and not mention it and hope that they wouldn't question me why it was in my letter but not my application?

 

[tantacles]

Can I just leave Honors Program out of my AMCAS /secondary and not mention it and hope that they wouldn't question me why it was in my letter but not my application?

Yes. This is probably the best way to do it since no one really cares about honors programs. Your GPA is 5000x more important.

 

[MaxPlancker]

I was in an honors program, and I didn't mention it at all on the AMCAS though I had a LOR from the director of the program. I think if you leave it off, nobody will notice (at least in a negative way). Besides, there's plenty better stuff to put than involvement in an honors program.

 

[ChrisMack390]

Why not just do the honors program? Seems like you are a bit too deep to gracefully exit at this point.

 

[takis]

don't they have a clause within the acceptance somewhere that allows them to rescind for any reason? with that said, no body cares about stuff like honors programs, certs, or other minor qualifications after acceptance unless it was a huge deal in your application. e.g. working 1 year as an EMT but for some reason not have an EMT cert would be weird. i think when it gets to graduate degrees like master's and above they might explicitly ask you that you must complete it as part of a conditional acceptance.

 

[Pagan FutureDoc]

Can I just leave Honors Program out of my AMCAS /secondary and not mention it and hope that they wouldn't question me why it was in my letter but not my application?

I see this likely not working out well for you. Anything on your app is fair game for open file interviews.

 

[radioactive15]

No they need cause to rescind an acceptance. Just like an employer can't fire without cause. If you read the fine print it mostly covers falsifying credentials and potential legal/academic issues. However, some schools extend this to professionalism, which is more vague, case Western took a degree away from a student a few years ago for this

If I don't include it anywhere on my AMCAS/secondary then I don't think I'd be falfisying anything. At the time my LOR writers wrote the letters, I was in the program. Now at application time, I've decided to drop out of it. If I don't mention it anywhere on apps, then I don't see why I would have to be committed to finishing it. If they single out that my LORs mentioned it, could I just say I changed my mind due to other circumstances? Or would this leave a bad impression on the interviewer?