<p>Santa Barbara City College? Son of a friend who fits that profile just completed there and parents were very happy with how it worked for him. He is in a 4-year school now. Transfer opportunities to UCSB and other places? I believe that they even share some residential housing with UCSB.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.sbcc.edu/[/url]”>http://www.sbcc.edu/</a></p>
<p>A friend of my daughter’s who had to leave her high school because of weak grades, and was semi-home-schooled to complete high school, attended the University of Northern Arizona. The good news is that she was accepted there. The bad news is that she didn’t like it any more than she had high school, and left after a semester.</p>
<p>HImom, I don’t have any schools to suggest but I have another thought. Many schools offer classes online. And more and more profs are offering classes where you might only meet once a week and then the rest of class is online discussion of readings, etc. My senior seminar class was like this (fiction/nonfiction writing). I also took a core science class via internet.
I bring this up because this could be great for your daughter because then she could still complete assignments/participate in class without the worry of physically attending class. When I graduated (last year!) my school was beginning to offer more and more classes online. And sometimes those classes are not as easy as they might sound!
I’m not sure how you could research this, but there must be a way.</p>
<p>My D loves & needs peers, but we had considered & explored some on-line options. On-line works very well for the right students but is tough for those who thrive on face-to-face interaction.
Will see what happens this semester & maybe tour some options this August so she can see what the schools are like & meet some of the faculty.</p>
<p>Western Washington is not usually all that wet, with about the same rainfall as New York City. What we do have in spades is clouds. Clouds, clouds, clouds. Dark it is, but not tropical rainy. It does spit a little rain pretty often in winter, but we don’t get much volume. It is probably the seasonal affective disorder capital of the US (outside of Juneau).</p>
<p>If the GPA is primarily due to absences, and if there’s an expectation that college GPA will be higher (since absences tend to matter less, and health is improving), then it’s probably a good idea to keep an eye towards transferring.</p>
<p>even a 2.5 HS GPA can be overcome with high SAT + decent college GPA freshman year, and places like USC accept lots of transfers. merit scholarships are probably questionable, but if you’re willing to pay out-of-state for a CSU, then costs might be reasonable.</p>
<p>Thanks for these ideas–please keep them coming as this is a wholly different kind of search than the one we did for our NMF son just two years ago. The good news is that her brother who has similar health conditions & similar absences thru HS is doing MUCH better as college freshman in terms of health (also higher grades than he got in HS, tho his grades never suffered as much from absences as her do).</p>
<p>I would think that her success will be hit and miss so the list will have to be larger then normal.
One of my kids has friends who go to Cal Lutheran. None of them were great students in high school.
Another thing I remember hearing a few years ago. There was a young woman with many strong attributes but her grades were sporatic due to health and learning disabilities. She did not get into any of her choices. This young woman got on the phone and ended up convincing Point Loma in San Diego to admit her. (disclaimer-I hear the story from a friend of the Mom so I don’t have absolute details of the event)</p>
<p>Yea, my D is extremely charasmatic, so I’m thinking interviewing adcoms this summer might be very helpful for her chances as well. We just have to keep our fingers crossed that this quarter goes well and that we can come up with a good & realistic list, with the help of the HS college counselor.</p>
<p>SBCC has good solid academics and does share some dorms with UCSB but please keep in mind that the area around SBCC and UCSB is a huge college party scene and if it were me I would want to make sure the student was fairly mature and able to handle that. Particular a girl…</p>
<p>Thanks–my D is really not much of a partier–more an artsy, voracious reader that just loves being around bright and talkative folks. Her idea of a party is a study group or girls-only sleepover where they play video games & watch animie/manga or DVDs. She likes boys as “buddies” but has not had any romantics attachments. She loves on-line role-playing games & can write elaborate scenarios for them, which she posts as a “veteran.” She has been paid unsolicited commissions to sketch for others on-line.</p>
<p>What is D planning on majoring in?</p>
<p>If considering Cal States…Monterrey Bay & Humboldt tend to be foggy & damp. Sonoma is probably hour away from SF airport (depending on traffic), but is small and quaint. San Diego State probably gets the most applications of all the Cal States, thus making it very competitive. Long Beach & Fullerton don’t have very many dorms, and they are old. Fresno & Chico are not close to major airports. San Jose State might be a good option. They recently built new dorms called campus village, which are very nice. It appears they are trying to move a way from a commuter school. They offer housing not only for lower division, but for upper division and graduate students. The San Jose airport is also only a few miles away, making it convenient for out of towners.</p>
<p>Have you considered the University of Redlands? From their website
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<p>I don’t have admissions data on hand, but they seem like the kind of school that would be open to students from a variety of backgrounds.</p>