What is your college freshman’s first semester GPA?
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Anonymous
I don't know anyone who doesn't monitor the grades if by "monitoring" you mean checking the semester grades! It's incredibly weird not to. I'm funding the education and my kids are not living independently. Plus they want to share them with me. I'd want to know of they are flailing prior to the end of the school year. I know a few freshmen who lost scholarships this year and one who failed out. These kids did REALLY well in high school but for whatever reasons things went off the rails in college. In one case the kid had a mental health issue come up. Thank goodness the parents were still checking grades and checking in. They ended up having to navigate all sorts of things with the college on behalf of their kid. |
Anonymous
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How is expecting a 4.0 and getting angry about a 3.6 not inadvertently teaching the kid not to attempt difficult things? Don’t we want our kids to try things that they’re not 100% sure they can succeed in? That’s the only way any of us really learn what we are actually capable of.
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Anonymous
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"I am the proud parent of a 3.6 GPA first semester college freshman majoring in Hotel Management." Put that on a bumper sticker and see what the neighbors say. |
Anonymous
But honestly, who cares what the neighbors say? |
Anonymous
LOL.. you sound like the crazy one to have no idea what you're getting for 84k per year. You sound crazy. |
Anonymous
sure, let's see how many C students compared to A students are successful in luck. PS. GWB became POTUS due to family connections, irrespective of his grades. Trump got into UPenn because of family money, and he was a probably lower than a C student. |
Anonymous
Yeah, that is what gets lost when you reference Bush, Kennedy, Trump. The reality is none of them even had to attend college and would have likely ended up in the same place, but parents have appearances to keep up so even their parents made sure their kids attended the "right" schools. It's not as though these people were trying their hardest, but achieved Cs. They made sure to do a minimal amount of college work and have as much fun/active social life as possible. |
Anonymous
| 3.5 W&M |
Anonymous
| 4.0 |
Anonymous
OP. |
Anonymous
And what will you say when they graduate college, are holding down a reasonable job? "Dear Child, you aren't earning enough because I monitor your paychecks?" Why not trust your kids? Yes, it's expensive but how are they ever going to find their way if they don't learn how to walk, talk, ride a bike AND go to college all by themselves? If they are struggling and you have built a good relationship then it opens up the lines of communication to find out what they are struggling with, if they are partying too much my guess is they are all to aware that if they fail out they are going to have to find a job and figure out how to get past the problem they created. |
Anonymous
| I'm not saying some you can't ask to know your student's gpa. I guess you have worries. You have concerns. It's weird though that you think every parent is asking or expects to know. |
Anonymous
NP- I’m not that happy with my kid’s 3.5 in junior year because she was originally pre-med and from what I could tell that was too low to get into med school. Now, she’s thinking law school. I looked at some random, not so great schools. The bottom quartile of U Minn had a 3.6 I believe. That’s why I’m worried. What’s your view on needing high grades for grad school/law school. |
Anonymous
| We ask that our college students share a screenshot of their grades. They have had a range from C’s to A+’s and that’s all fine. We don’t have any access to their portals or anything and this is the one request. I don’t think it’s much to ask and it helps keep both of them accountable. Also, I think if one of them was really struggling this could be a cue for us if they weren’t sharing much during the semester. Not that big an ask, IMO. |
Anonymous
| 4.0 UVa math major |