Colleges for smart, creative underachievers?

whenhen
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 18:51:13 +0000

When you’re looking at schools, ask what the workload is like. For example, my school gives multiple quizzes and smaller papers throughout the semester but also has a midterm and final. For students who may procrastinate on work, or deem some work useless, it’s a great system. Class sizes are also small enough that professors realize when students are struggling and often move in to help them. Based on your description, it sounds like your daughter would succeed in that environment.

If that’s not the case, many schools just use the midterm-final model where there’s no busywork, only two tests and maybe a paper. If you find that appealing, look into some larger schools.