Advice for son who does not care about grades

bovertine
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 12:32:13 +0000

^^^
After reading on CC for a few months I think everybody basically would recommend the same thing for this kid, at least as far as where to look and apply for school. Apply to MIT since it is currently his dream school, and he certainly has a chance. Apply to a few schools of varying selectivity that foster this level of interest in Math, including a couple safeties. With some kids applying to 15-20 schools he certainly doesn’t have to limit himself.

Like all message boards, it sometimes seems that these threads repeat the same basic advice, which is primarily common sense, over and over again. I understand there is some added value in that the OP may never have heard some of the specific suggestions for accelerated learning, or the anecdotal stories before. But the college application strategy is certainly covered here and in several hundred other threads I’m sure.

As far as the original question, what to do about the grades, which it turns out are not that bad anyway, it looks like the OP has basically reached a resolution. I’m not sure anybody could have given him/her much more than reassurance anyway, not knowing the kid personally.

The only thing that is surprising about this thread is that nobody has yet to take it off into a UofC discussion for 47 pages.