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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What year?

Is the health issue related to the specific school or its culture?  Otherwise, I'm not sure why health issue wouldn't follow your child to a new school.

Without much detail, I think it's best to stick it out.

Keep in mind the whole fallacy that "top ranked" schools are harder than or better than lower ranked ones.  Just dropping to another school might not necessarily be easier.  (especially if there is mental health issue that follows the student)[/quote]

My kid went to a no-name college, yet she majored in STEM and the classes were HARD. She got into a top grad program from that lowly college, so there you go.

So, OP, I'd say stick it out because there is no guarantee the classes at the lower ranked college will be easier. If she drops down to CC, well, yes, they classes will be easier, but....

Can she take time off to regroup and deal with health issues? She can't start over anyway, as her old classes will follow her to her new school. She may graduate with a higher GPA if they just giver her credit for the classes and don't count them in her gpa, but at a lower ranked college, what difference would that make?

And, she can explain her health issues on her business/law applications.

Can she just do well during the next couple years at her top ranked college?

Of course, if the college is the problem, then by all means, leave and find a better environment.

I transferred when I was in college, and it made all the difference. But I went from a lower-ranked to a higher-ranked school. [/quote]

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