thank you for your comment. I will tell you why I’m so concerned about this. My older son graduated from UC Berkeley 2 years ago with a double major, Astronomy and Physics. he is currently pursuing his Phd at Arizona State in their Astronomy department. for those that would like to know, he graduated from high school with a 4.7 gpa, he only missed 1 question and got a 780 Math SAT. I never worried about him academically. I was very proud of him because I attended UCB after transferring from UCLA my sophomore year. I transferred to be near the family business because my dad was in ill health and in the process of getting a divorce from my step-mom. So I tried as a junior to commute to Berkeley, 40 miles away every day and come back home to run the family small printing business and make sure the bills were paid. I only lasted a year doing this, it was too hard doing sales, running printing presses and getting out orders while trying to maintain my classes. Now 45 years later I still regret not finishing, but my oldest son helped by accomplishing something that eluded me. My younger son is not the same as his brother. He’s an athlete, his brother was not, he’s very intelligent but was not as strong academically as his older brother mostly due to having 1 ear frequency deaf. So since birth he has dealt with 2 inputs to audio information. He has had to decode what people say and sometimes he guesses wrong. We did not know of his condition until the 4th-5th grade. My main concern is how he will function in a large classroom setting or lecture hall. He needs to lip-read to confirm what he hears. At Whitman his class size would be small and intimate, at Cal Poly I’m sure the lectures will be bigger. I don’t want him to get lost in the shuffle and he’s too proud to ask for help. Fortunately I closed the business and retired from it which prevents him from having to face what I did at his age. But like any parent, I want my children to be successful at whatever they do.