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RALEIGH, N.C. - A high-school senior who scored a perfect 1,600 on his SAT won't start his freshman year next week at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after a judge denied an injunction that would have forced the school to admit him.
Mark Edmonson was admitted to UNC-Chapel Hill in April, but he lost his spot in the freshman class in July after finishing the school year with a failing grade in one class and earning several C's and at least one D in other courses.
Edmonson, 19, of Greensboro, sued the university last week in Orange County Superior Court for a spot in the freshman class, claiming breach of contract.
He also asked for a temporary injunction that would have allowed him to attend the school while the lawsuit made its way through the courts.
Judge John R. Jolly Jr. denied the injunction request Thursday.
The Edmonsons received a fax informing them of the decision.
"Our reaction, of course, is extreme, extreme disappointment," said Barbara Edmonson, Mark's mother. "I think the judge was extremely fair. He said he wanted to take his time and review all the material, and I think he did that."
Edmonson, who graduated from Northwest Guilford High School, received a letter in July asking him to explain a slump that dropped his grade point average from a 3.8 to a 3.5 and he had several conferences with admissions officers.
"It just seemed to us that everything he said, they took the wrong way," Barbara Edmonson said.
After the first meeting, Mark Edmonson sent an e-mail to Herb Davis, associate director of undergraduate admissions, that described his senior grades as "abysmal."
He said he performed poorly because he had become "disillusioned with the high-school experience."
Edmonson's mother said her son struggled with calculus and had a difficult time adjusting to a change in medications.
Her son did better by the end of his senior year, she said.
After hearing from UNC in April, Mark Edmonson told Babson University in Wellesley, Mass., to take him off its waiting list. He was denied admission to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
He had paid his tuition to UNC, secured a dorm room and went through orientation.
Admissions officers then informed him that he had failed to continue to achieve at the level that had enabled his admission offer and rescinded his acceptance.
Mark Edmonson was admitted to UNC-Chapel Hill in April, but he lost his spot in the freshman class in July after finishing the school year with a failing grade in one class and earning several C's and at least one D in other courses.
Edmonson, 19, of Greensboro, sued the university last week in Orange County Superior Court for a spot in the freshman class, claiming breach of contract.
He also asked for a temporary injunction that would have allowed him to attend the school while the lawsuit made its way through the courts.
Judge John R. Jolly Jr. denied the injunction request Thursday.
The Edmonsons received a fax informing them of the decision.
"Our reaction, of course, is extreme, extreme disappointment," said Barbara Edmonson, Mark's mother. "I think the judge was extremely fair. He said he wanted to take his time and review all the material, and I think he did that."
Edmonson, who graduated from Northwest Guilford High School, received a letter in July asking him to explain a slump that dropped his grade point average from a 3.8 to a 3.5 and he had several conferences with admissions officers.
"It just seemed to us that everything he said, they took the wrong way," Barbara Edmonson said.
After the first meeting, Mark Edmonson sent an e-mail to Herb Davis, associate director of undergraduate admissions, that described his senior grades as "abysmal."
He said he performed poorly because he had become "disillusioned with the high-school experience."
Edmonson's mother said her son struggled with calculus and had a difficult time adjusting to a change in medications.
Her son did better by the end of his senior year, she said.
After hearing from UNC in April, Mark Edmonson told Babson University in Wellesley, Mass., to take him off its waiting list. He was denied admission to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
He had paid his tuition to UNC, secured a dorm room and went through orientation.
Admissions officers then informed him that he had failed to continue to achieve at the level that had enabled his admission offer and rescinded his acceptance.
Goddamn, what a moron. I hate these people WITH THE FIRE OF A THOUSAND SUNS.
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