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"My guy is one of those. He's 2100 SAT but 3.1 (and wilting) GPA and a rising senior. "
Both of my sons were like the above, and both of their gpas kept wilting senior year. Older S turned down 2 top 25 colleges to go to U Minn., which gave him virtually a full ride. He flunked out with a gpa of below 1.0 because he didn't bother to go to class.... He was the son that I stood over to make sure got applications in to the colleges that he said interested him. He said he wanted to go immediately to college and not take a gap year.
Younger S didn't get around to applying to college, and I had the good sense not to structure him. When he missed the deadlines for the colleges that interested him, within a week or 2, he had found an Americorps position (He loved to volunteer, and had been a volunteer for years). He did a gap year living at home, paying rent, and working for Americorps, then went to a LAC -- Rollins -- that he found, loved, applied to on his own and took out major loans to attend because due to his horrendous senior year, his parents wouldn't pay a cent for his college until S proved himself by getting good grades in college for a year.
He is a rising junior with good grades (last semester's a 3.75) while working up to 14 hours a week, taking a full courseload, and being very involved in a variety of productive ECs.
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