Less than 3.0 GPA, is there a thread? Or hope?

annasdad
Fri, 04 May 2012 18:16:04 +0000

I disagree with the statement that a person with a GPA below 3.0 does not have the academic ability to be in college.



So do I. But unless that person with the academic ability to be in college changes the behavior that resulted in the sub-3.0 GPA, he or she is unlikely to succeed. Yes, there are sub-3.0 kids who change and thrive at college; I know some. But there are many who don’t - witness the below-50% 6-year graduation rate from less-selective colleges. (Yes, I know there are reasons other than academics that some kids never finish.) I would be very leery about spending a lot of money sending an underachieving kid away to college on the hope and chance s/he will turn it around.

I’ve already informed DS14 that unless he turns it around next year, if he wants to go to college, there’s a community college in his future.