Colleges for smart, creative underachievers?

katliamom
Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:40:51 +0000

You could be describing my kid, although his ADD-related issues weren’t diagnosed until much later. Sadly for these kids, crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s is very much part of the college experience. My son ended up failing out of college the first year, after anxiety led to a nervous breakdown, which led him to, basically, shut himself in his dorm room for 3 months.

So my comment is: make SURE your daughter is ready, emotionally, for college. Being smart, and doing well on the SATs, is only part of the equation. It wasn’t enough for my kiddo to succeed. In retrospect, we should not have sent him to college right out of high school. We (unintentionally) set him up for failure. The subsequent shock, and shattered self-confidence, is a price we’re all paying to this day.