D's freshman grades dragging down GPA

MAMom23
Sun, 01 Oct 2006 19:55:44 +0000

In her freshman year she was a class officer and a varsity athlete in 3 sports. She also had 7 full classes with no studies her first 2 terms (1st semester). Her second 2 terms she had a study and her grades improved. I know she was having a hard time balancing everything.

Her father and I have been divorced for many years, but that was a year she was having a real hard time with him. He is an abusive person - physically and mentally. But, I digress.

She finally was able to figure things out by her sophomore year and she was much more organized. Though her guidance counselor (who will be writing a recommendation) knows of the divorce, she is not aware of my ex’s abusive nature. She might know somewhat because my D who is in college now was never very shy about talking about physical assaults from her father and had spoken to the vice principal and principal about it.

The schools she is looking at are not Div I schools - she’s looking at Div II’s. She is being recruited by coaches because of her outstanding athletic ability.

Also, the GPA given by the guidance counselor did not take into account honors classes. G.C. did mention that different schools weight things differently, so most likely they would be figuring on a higher GPA.

Maybe we’re just overwhelmed by everything (it didn’t seem this hard the last time!) and I’m trying to keep her from worrying too much.