Frustrated at Lackluster Public School, Need Advice

[ucbalumnus]

@thumper1

In addition, the OP states that all of this student’s grades were less lofty than in high school…which is not uncommon for first semester freshmen…some of whom just need to learn low to do college…which is so much different than high school in terms of student ownership of everything.

Agree, but also note that college will redistribute high school A students across the A and B (with some C and lower) grade range. Even the most grade inflated Ivy League colleges will have some students (presumed to have been high school A students) getting B (and occasionally lower) grades.