<p>Okay, we’ve had the awesome schools for B students. What about colleges for those bright kids who haven’t yet caught fire in the classroom in high school, but who have potential?
Anybody have any inspirations to share?</p>
<p>Some possibilities I’ve heard of . . .
Felician College (NJ)
Dominican College (NY state)
Mmmm, Rollins sounded nice (Fl?) Is that too hard?</p>
<p>Centenary College (NJ)
Georgian Court University (NJ)
Point Park ¶
Ferrum College (VA)
Shenandoah University (VA)
Virginia Wesleyan (VA)</p>
<p>Harvard (MA)</p>
<p>Boston College (lol)</p>
<p>mariambaby3: lol</p>
<p>I’ve heard of Boston College, Mariambaby, but what’s that other one?</p>
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<p>C+ won’t get you in unless your SAT/ACT makes up for it.</p>
<p>Emory& Henry (VA)
Presbyterian College(SC)
Wingate University (NC)
Gardner-Webb Univ.(NC)
Lenoir-Rhyne Univ. (NC)
High Point University (NC)
UNC Greensboro
UNC Pembroke
East Carolina University(maybe)
Western Carolina University</p>
<p>^^^^lots of luck if you don’t want to be in the South…or a token for your race/religion…let’s keep these coming…</p>
<p>just thought of one: University of Hartford (or at least it was appropriate based on 2008 admissions season)</p>
<p>How does Rollins get on this list? NO WAY, unless you are just saying that a C student might like fun in the sun, but then there are other schools in FLA that you could name which might or might not qualify.</p>
<p>Some others, but some might be reaches: College of St. Elizabeth, Fairleigh Dickinson, Elmira, Widener, Champlain College, Lynchburg, California College of Pa, LeMoyne, and don’t forget some non-flagship state schools (a few in NJ: Kean, Stockton, U. of Jersey City, William Paterson)</p>
<p>what about west coast schools?</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^</p>
<p>There are few C students in California. ;)</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/565409/understanding_university_of_california.html[/url]”>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/565409/understanding_university_of_california.html</a></p>
<p>A real answer is for such a student to go to a local community college for a year or two.</p>
<p>Hunt – If you lived in certain parts of New York State you wouldn’t be saying that. I’ve seen too many students go to the local CCs, get an apartment with friends, get a job at the local CVS, Target or Pep Boys to help pay for it, then let the grades slide and ultimately quit school. For other kids CC has been a godsend. But too few of them have had the self-discipline to focus on school, letting partying with old underachieving high school friends dominate their agenda. The real answer may well include a good 4-year school with a track record of taking a chance on underachieving high school students and turning them into solid if unspectacular college students.</p>
<p>^^^Agree totally. S2 is a C (ish) type student, took reg, honors and two AP’s in h.s.
Took SAT once did really bad and never took it again. He was just not very motivated. His best friends were all cut from the similiar cloth. </p>
<p>We gave him the option of CC or college. Like Hudson Valley, we have see lots of kids here go to CC saying they would transfer and four years later they are still here. If S2 had chosen CC, we were advocating a “trade” type track because we just didn’t see the transfer thing happening.</p>
<p>He applied to 2 directional state u’s, got in both and decided to go to his favorite.
His first semester was a social success but academic disaster. He was put on academic probation. We allowed him another chance because he truly liked the sch. and was happy there and begged for another chance. He did overwhelmingly better this semester, is off academic probation and starts summer school next week (with no complaints. He would never have done that in h.s.).</p>
<p>He figured out what it took to be successful. The funny thing is that when he came home on breaks, he never hung out with his old n’er do well crew. He spent all his time with other kids who went off to sch. I am convinced going away was the best thing for him.</p>
<p>I don’t understand when it became imperitive to be a B student in order to go to college. My son is a very bright C student who hasn’t quite grown into being his age and taking on responsibility and challenges due to ADHD and other issues. He will shrivel up and die at a CC, especially because he is very social and responds extremely well to peer pressure to succeed. The C students are, ummmm, AVERAGE. My son deserves a chance to go to college just like my daughter, an A student, deserved to get into college when she applied. I will do whatever I can to help him get into college. PackMom, you are inspiring!</p>
<p>My son never has done well in school. He is a C student going in to his senior year at an excellent parochial school. However, he is bright, imaginative, personable, fun-loving, hard working, and sharp in a pragmatic, worldly kind of way. I have business associates and friends who rave about what a great kid he is - his ability to look them in the eye and talk to them, give them a firm handshake, and interact with them appropriately. He has personal survival skills that will serve him well in life sometime, but not until he runs the required academic gauntlets, which seem geared to frustrate rather than inspire boys like mine. I’ve read Colleges Than Change Lives but have found most of those schools are for A and high B students - Ivy quality, in other words. I’ve contemplated community college but am not convinced it’s the place for him. He needs an environment where his teachers and peer group will inspire him to the maturity he needs to really start getting at his academics. Am i deluding myself that academics will ever be a meaningful part of his life? Not sure but I think I have to try to make it so. Otherwise, success for him will come very, very hard and perhaps not at all. Anyone know any good D-3 colleges in the Midwest that’d take him?</p>
<p>NellieFox, I don’t know a thing about schools in the midwest but I’m sure there is one out there for your S. Mine is at a big state u. in the south.<br>
An update fr. my last post in May: S2 attended both sessions of summer sch. taking one class each session. He got a “B” in both classes,yah. </p>
<p>I’m pretty sure he’ll never be a person who loves school nor will he ever make the Dean’s List. He does love being at college though and seems to be slowly figuring out what it takes to make it there. If it can happen for him, it can happen for anyone. Good luck in your search.</p>
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Hey, hudsonvalley51, I’ve noticed that too. So, it’s an upstate New York thing?</p>
<p>Add:
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Paul Smith’s College</p>