Suspended from college

Northstarmom
Sat, 22 May 2010 11:55:46 +0000

Who will be paying for your son’s community college courses? Because younger S – a bright guy – almost managed not to graduate from high school senior year due to senioritis, H and I told him we wouldn’t help pay for college until he had one year of acceptable college grades on his own dime.

He took a gap year with Americorps, living at home and paying rent, and then went to college with merit aid (high SAT kid, and impressive community service ECs), his savings, and loans H and I cosigned for. He is now a rising junior, and has been on Dean’s List throughout. He truly appreciates college, and participates in a variety of productive ECs as well as his academics and working part time.

Sometimes they just need to grow up and also to have some skin in the game. This seems particularly true of boys. I even know male college professors who flunked out of college initially.