Colleges For Mediocre Grades?

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<p>My son went through elementary and middle school with straight A’s straight through without studying or trying. He always was on the rec soccer team and wrestling team. He scored in the 95+percentile on all tests. When high school came around he just didnt seem to have the work ethic to keep it up. His grades and scores have been declining ever since. He is a junior now with a 3.28 GPA, 1750 SAT, 2 Years of High School Wrestling, and three AP classes. His grades are going further and further down, his semester grades were 1 A, 3 B’s, 2 C’s, and 1 D!!! Can you please give me some input on good colleges? Planning on Majoring in Law or Computer Science. East Coast Please.</p>

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<p>Here are a few: [Colleges</a> That Change Lives](<a href=“http://www.ctcl.com/]Colleges”>http://www.ctcl.com/)</p>

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<p>Jayo, some schools to maybe look at would be Hartwick, Drexel, Clarkson and Bryant. They all have computer science and all have either pre law or a law program in combination with another school.</p>

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<p>Try to encourage him to do better with thing like: I know your bored with these high school teachers, you probably are smarter than most of them, but play the game get the grades and when you get to college teachers will have PhD level teachers and most all of them are Master level people who will finally be smarter than you.
And also try: No college advertises or recruits smart but lazy students. So you have to give up on the lazyness because you cant get rid of the smart gene you inherited from your parents.</p>

<p>Then duck because the kid will say i inherited laziness from my parents too.</p>

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<p>Jayo - I’m less concerned about the current GPA and SAT scores than I am about you S’s declining performance. I second the school suggestions by Poi and Dntw8up above, but admission to college may be moot if he’s disinterested in learning the material taught there.</p>

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<p>Jayo…Check out this current (similar) thread…</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/462689-good-choices-mediocre-grades.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/462689-good-choices-mediocre-grades.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>You can do “pre-law” at any school, in any major.</p>

<p>Nothing wrong with a 3.28, and hundreds of schools will accept that.</p>