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[quote=Anonymous]One of mine is intrinsically motivated and, if anything, I have to encourage her to lighten up.  She's like I was in school.

The other is a junior and became a focused student in sophomore year.  I don't know that he cares "more" about his doing well than I do but he cares as much as I do LOL  For him a few things turned the tide... 1) ADHD was diagnosed in freshman year and medication helped him finally feel calm and focused at school 2) exec function and writing tutoring built his confidence 3) success in math class and the results of neuro-psych assessment that showed he had super-high scores in math aptitude gave him a focus for the future - he decided he wants to major in math or statistics.

While treating the ADHD was certainly a big part of it, I think that identification of something he could focus on for college helped make college more real to him, rather than this amorphous/scary thing that he had to figure out.  So, there was a concrete reason to do well in school.  Last summer he did a short college summer program focused on data analysis which gave him a bit of a taste of life on a college campus and that helped too.[/quote]

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