<p>^^^ hope my D has the same results with grades that come out today from Wellesley. Sounds like your D and mine had similar first terms with “wake up call”. A 3.0+ is awesome and I would LOVE to see that!</p>
<p>OHMomof2- Thinking of you and your son and hoping for a good outcome for you. Hugs.</p>
<p>My D got official access to her grades yesterday. It’s not too exciting since her school is pass/no record for the first semester, but she did actually pass everything. So, that ties up all the loose ends from the fall. On to the spring semester (which for her doesn’t start until Jan 22)!</p>
<p>Thinking of you and your son today OHMomof2!</p>
<p>Update on S - his appeal was accepted (!!) and he returns to school on Sunday to start classes Monday. </p>
<p>He’s limited to taking 13 credits (he had 18 last semester and was registered for similar this semester), so he just went online and dropped two classes, leaving 4 (12 credits). </p>
<p>He meets with the retention counselor monthly, he and his advisor will meet ASAP when he returns, and he has to make an appointment with the academic support office.</p>
<p>I am very relieved, and hoping he retools and this scare becomes a blip to learn from and forget a few years down the line.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the support!</p>
<p>Big sigh of relief, OHMomof2.</p>
<p>It sounds like the school has some helpful support/rules, too.</p>
<p>OHmom: Great news! Sounds like he is back on track and can make it work!</p>
<p>You must be so relieved! Do something nice for yourself now: mani, pedi, movie out, bubble bath.</p>
<p>Happy for you ohmom. Were you able to attend the hearing? Will you have any involvement with the school next semester?</p>
<p>On a side note, is it common to take 18 credits in a semester system? That sounds like a lot.</p>
<p>Thank you guys. No, I dropped him off for the hearing - I wasn’t invited and I am positive my presence wouldn’t have been helpful and probably would have hurt him, in fact, in their view.</p>
<p>He showed me his letter - he is on academic probation for the spring semester and their letter outlines the things he needs to do.</p>
<p>I am glad they have a program…I wish they’d had it before now but i guess you never know if a kid is really in trouble until a semester’s grades are in. </p>
<p>I won’t have any direct involvement as far as the school is concerned but S and I did agree that I get to see his grades, online, at least this next semester. That’s a condition of me paying my part of his tuition.</p>
<p>18 is a lot…he was pretty ambitious. That may have been part of the problem. He had a lot of little classes…1/2 a credit here, 1 there, 2 or 3 here and so on. I think it was 8 classes total. Even if they only met once a week they were still demanding. I feel better about him taking 4 classes at 3 credits each this semester.</p>
<p>Back in the day, 12 hours was minimum to be considered “full time;” 15 hours was “average;” and 18 hours was either “ambitious” or “crazy” depending on who you talked to. 
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<p>Sounds like the support system is in place for a “speedy recovery.” Good to hear!</p>
<p>Glad to hear the news OHMom. Sounds like a plan is in place for a positive semester!</p>
<p>Glad it worked out OHMom-- the support plan for the spring sounds great.</p>
<p>5-6 classes are doable once kids get the hang of it, may be after the first semester/year when they figure out they are not being challenged.</p>
<p>I suspect 8 separate classes was a big problem. It is not like 0.5 or 1 credit folks want to be ignored or give the student less work.</p>
<p>Great news, OHMom! I am sure you are relieved. I’m very glad the school was willing to give him another chance. I’m sure he’ll do a whole lot better with the support.</p>
<p>I’m glad to hear it, OHMom! I’m glad they have structure and requirements to optimize his chance for success. Do you like his course selection for the spring? Good news - we all wish him the best!</p>
<p>Great to hear the good news! Like others, I suspect the 18 credits could easily have been the root of the problem - or a significant contributor to it. 15/16 was average in my day (4 - 5 classes).</p>
<p>We definitely wish him the best!</p>
<p>Glad for your good news OHMom!</p>
<p>Sometimes the number of units isn’t a good indication of difficulty.</p>
<p>My D took 18.5 units last semester: math (4), chem+lab (4), CS - fun intro class for non-majors (4), frosh humanities (4), frosh eng seminar (1), recreational chamber music for non-majors (1), PE (0.5). A total of 8 classes, but the math and chem were partial repeats of HS AP classes, at a higher level. It was a lot to juggle, and a lot of hours in-class, but not hugely challenging in terms of the material.</p>
<p>This term she’s planning fewer units but, IMO, much more challenge: phys+lab (4), eng+lab (3), CS first class of the lower-division major sequence w/lab (4), math (4) <em>or</em> humanities (3~4, pass/fail). (She is signed up for both the math and the humanities. Plans to try both, see which works better, and drop the other one before the drop deadline.) She knows that 3 lab classes is going to be a ton of work, so probably won’t signup for any of the 1-unit fun stuff. She even plans to leave her cello at home, which makes me so sad!</p>
<p>The College of Engineering 4-year plan calls for 15~16 units per semester, with two or three classes in-major, and one or two classes out-of-major (math, science, humanities, “breadth”).</p>
<p>What will she do for fun without a cello?</p>
<p>^^^ [url=<a href=“http://swe.berkeley.edu/]SWE[/url”>http://swe.berkeley.edu/]SWE[/url</a>] and [url=<a href=“https://pioneers.berkeley.edu/home/]PIE[/url”>https://pioneers.berkeley.edu/home/]PIE[/url</a>]</p>
<p>Very happy for your S, OHmom. Sounds like the school has a nice support system once they’ve indentified a student who could benefit. Wishing him all the best this semester!</p>
<p>Am I the first 2016 mom with a kid who almost got kicked out of school? I want my bingo points now :)</p>