<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>