@pmax57
I assume your two major fears are (1) failure in school, (2) future earning potential. With regards to (1), assuming he doesn't do well at St. John's, the FA for transfer students and for regular students at relatively good schools is exactly the same. St. John's is more well-known for their basketball team than they are for their curriculum, but people in academia know who they are, and if he had to transfer I'm sure he'd be alright.
With regards to (2), that's something you really have no control over. He's going to get a bachelors degree from a fairly good LAC, and if he's not entrepreneurial in nature or "into" money there's nothing you can do about that (or should, even if you could). Presuming most of his collegiate debts will be paid off by you he'll be ahead of the pack in general in having a BA and having no debts. It would probably be beneficial to get him to read something like The Four Pillars of Investing so he can save money intelligently for the rest of his life to allow him to do the work he wants to do, but I doubt he'd get through it if it's not a topic that he cares about.
The only thing I'd be slightly worried about is law school. I'd advise him against it until he experiences some of the work he wants to do, because law school is expensive and the field of law is incredibly unattractive to anyone who's not going to a top 15 school (and even then, the job field is pretty horrendous). He really doesn't need a law background anyway as it's mostly activists that "monitor" these situations while lawyers rarely if ever play a role.
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If he wants go into law solely to protect human rights in China, then I think he will be a bit disappointed in a few decades. I think China is going to (if it hasn't already) surpass the US and make the US irrelevant (and hence lawyers from the US will be irrelevant). But that's just my opinion.
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Ugh, this is completely wrong, but I'll leave it alone since I think you mean well.