Help! College issues with Ivy league son

1NJParent
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 01:36:45 +0000

If this kid were a slacker, I would agree s/he may one day kick up couple of notches and be fine. However, s/he is not. This kid has obviously been a hard worker, evidenced by the numerous AP courses s/he took. The freshman courses that s/he wasn’t doing well in are the prerequisites for the courses yet to come. Those courses will get harder and harder still, especially without a good foundation. Sure, there’re C students who succeed later in life, but their successes are generally not in areas where they’ve gotten Cs. They may have found their true “fit” in a totally different area.