Son Flunked out of College During Covid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son went to college during the beginning of Covid. Complete disaster. He stayed 3 semesters. He was at school with online classes. He didn't even meet with a counselor until his sophomore year.

He is now 20 and ready to return to college, but wants to go somewhere else. Any other parent dealing with this. How do you explain grades? Is the horror of Covid a good excuse. What are kids doing.

I know there were a lot of kids like him. How are colleges looking at them?

Please help.

OP thousands and thousands, tens of thousands hundreds of thousands kids attended college during covid and did not flunk out.

While covid was a thing it is not the only reason your kid failed out. It is not even in the top five. Try again.

Grades they go to community college for two years. Then they transfer.

As a complete stranger online, how you could POSSIBLY make such an assessment?

[Anonymous]

I have a child who is struggling in high school very much because she had to attend freshman year virtually. She didn't get a transition year, and just hasn't been able to pull it together since.

Some kids are very much flailing since Covid. Some did fine, sure. But please don't act like it wasn't a huge deal for so many students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I flunked out long before Covid. I went to community college for a year then graduated from the state flagship. That's what your son will do.

Did you just pretend that year did not happen or did you have to submit grades from your failed year?

To enroll in the state flagship, I sent transcripts from the community college and from the college I flunked out of, which included a good (passing) freshman year as well as the disaster sophomore year.

The flunk-out is a total non-issue now. Obviously never put it on a resume because I didn't get a degree from there.

[Anonymous]

OP this is what happens.

Any student can go to community college.

Since you are so bent out of shape your kid is using your monies my advice is to have them take out loans for community college any classes they get A's & B's in you pay them back after the semester is over. C or below gets no money.

After 2 years at any community college, those grades are the ones used to get into any four-year school. The apps will have a space for your student to put in their previous failures. But if they have a 3.0 or better there won't be an issue transferring to a 4-year school. When they enter CC their GPA from the 4 year original school basically goes away they start completely from scratch.

Once they are in the 4 year school their GPA starts all over again.

I can not express how many students this happens to every year. This is nothing new.

Personally, I would not have a student like yours go to CC right away. I would have them move out and get a dam job. And no help.

College is a privilege not a right. They squandered that not on my dime.

And I stand with the college about talking to you. You are not the student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly he’s 20 now this is his problem. He needs to explain it himself in his application. But he should also consider starting at a community college, building a track record, and transferring.

Ignore this heartless poster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son went to college during the beginning of Covid. Complete disaster. He stayed 3 semesters. He was at school with online classes. He didn't even meet with a counselor until his sophomore year.

He is now 20 and ready to return to college, but wants to go somewhere else. Any other parent dealing with this. How do you explain grades? Is the horror of Covid a good excuse. What are kids doing.

I know there were a lot of kids like him. How are colleges looking at them?

Please help.

OP thousands and thousands, tens of thousands hundreds of thousands kids attended college during covid and did not flunk out.

While covid was a thing it is not the only reason your kid failed out. It is not even in the top five. Try again.

Grades they go to community college for two years. Then they transfer.

With all due respect, he was always the type of kid who would need hands on help his freshman year. The school he attended handled covid VERY poorly. He was not even assigned an academic advisor. They offered very help and professors were not available. You are right, covid was not the only reason, but he would have done much better if covid had not happened. Some schools handled covid much better than others.

This is normal in college. He'd be better off at community college where you can help him. No school assigns academic advisors. Covid was not the issue.

[Anonymous]

Start at a community college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly he’s 20 now this is his problem. He needs to explain it himself in his application. But he should also consider starting at a community college, building a track record, and transferring.

Ignore this heartless poster.

This is actually a good advice

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I flunked out long before Covid. I went to community college for a year then graduated from the state flagship. That's what your son will do.

Did you just pretend that year did not happen or did you have to submit grades from your failed year?

You definitely don't have to bring up a failure at another school unless there's a class they actually passed and you want to transfer the credits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son went to college during the beginning of Covid. Complete disaster. He stayed 3 semesters. He was at school with online classes. He didn't even meet with a counselor until his sophomore year.

He is now 20 and ready to return to college, but wants to go somewhere else. Any other parent dealing with this. How do you explain grades? Is the horror of Covid a good excuse. What are kids doing.

I know there were a lot of kids like him. How are colleges looking at them?

Please help.

OP thousands and thousands, tens of thousands hundreds of thousands kids attended college during covid and did not flunk out.

While covid was a thing it is not the only reason your kid failed out. It is not even in the top five. Try again.

Grades they go to community college for two years. Then they transfer.

With all due respect, he was always the type of kid who would need hands on help his freshman year. The school he attended handled covid VERY poorly. He was not even assigned an academic advisor. They offered very help and professors were not available. You are right, covid was not the only reason, but he would have done much better if covid had not happened. Some schools handled covid much better than others.

This is normal in college. He'd be better off at community college where you can help him. No school assigns academic advisors. Covid was not the issue.

This is not true. My DC was assigned an academic advisor as a freshman. This faculty member was his advisor until he selected his major and he switched to a professor within that department. This is the case at many schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son went to college during the beginning of Covid. Complete disaster. He stayed 3 semesters. He was at school with online classes. He didn't even meet with a counselor until his sophomore year.

He is now 20 and ready to return to college, but wants to go somewhere else. Any other parent dealing with this. How do you explain grades? Is the horror of Covid a good excuse. What are kids doing.

I know there were a lot of kids like him. How are colleges looking at them?

Please help.

OP thousands and thousands, tens of thousands hundreds of thousands kids attended college during covid and did not flunk out.

While covid was a thing it is not the only reason your kid failed out. It is not even in the top five. Try again.

Grades they go to community college for two years. Then they transfer.

With all due respect, he was always the type of kid who would need hands on help his freshman year. The school he attended handled covid VERY poorly. He was not even assigned an academic advisor. They offered very help and professors were not available. You are right, covid was not the only reason, but he would have done much better if covid had not happened. Some schools handled covid much better than others.

This is normal in college. He'd be better off at community college where you can help him. No school assigns academic advisors. Covid was not the issue.

This is not true. My DC was assigned an academic advisor as a freshman. This faculty member was his advisor until he selected his major and he switched to a professor within that department. This is the case at many schools.

This is also the case at my kid’s school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son went to college during the beginning of Covid. Complete disaster. He stayed 3 semesters. He was at school with online classes. He didn't even meet with a counselor until his sophomore year.

He is now 20 and ready to return to college, but wants to go somewhere else. Any other parent dealing with this. How do you explain grades? Is the horror of Covid a good excuse. What are kids doing.

I know there were a lot of kids like him. How are colleges looking at them?

Please help.

OP thousands and thousands, tens of thousands hundreds of thousands kids attended college during covid and did not flunk out.

While covid was a thing it is not the only reason your kid failed out. It is not even in the top five. Try again.

Grades they go to community college for two years. Then they transfer.

Nailed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly he’s 20 now this is his problem. He needs to explain it himself in his application. But he should also consider starting at a community college, building a track record, and transferring.

Ignore this heartless poster.

This is actually a good advice

Yeah, when people don’t like being told the truth, they trot out the emotionally charged language right on cue.

[Anonymous]

OP, I’m so sorry to hear about your son and the many posters here who have forgotten there is a real live human on the receiving end.

I would go to your local community college and get him to take classes in the Spring, see how his grades are and eventually transfer. It’s a marathon not a sprint. If he wants to go, support but don’t enable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly he’s 20 now this is his problem. He needs to explain it himself in his application. But he should also consider starting at a community college, building a track record, and transferring.

Ignore this heartless poster.

This is actually a good advice

Yeah, when people don’t like being told the truth, they trot out the emotionally charged language right on cue.

Actually you 2 b’s don’t sound like you can handle the truth. Your advice is asinine.