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[quote=Anonymous]Hi All, I have a child in her junior year. She came to us summer after freshman year with a .5 GPA. Home life was a shit show. Drinking, drugs, meth cooking - the works. It was also the pandemic and she was virtually learning from this disaster. You read that right. zero point five. Last year (sophomore year) she worked hard and with the help of an IEP for emotional issues and a stable home life was able to achieve a about a 3.2, which brought her GPA up to 1.9. We still have more time to pull her GPA up, but there is only so high she will be able to pull it.

Her test scores are not great. I've only seen what she took before her accommodations were in place. She is an auditory/visual learner. Reading comprehension has been something we are actively working on. So I'm not sure the test scores will help us. The are also lots of gaps in her "fund of knowledge" that we are continuing to work to fill. This is mostly due to all the disruptions in her childhood.

She's continued on this upward trajectory and she really wants to go to a four year university and have the college experience. Her life has been disrupted so many times, that she's never been able to embrace any kind of "normal experience." So I would love for her to have the college experience that she wants, which is why we are looking outside of community colleges. (I'd love for her to have a dorm experience, maybe go to sports games, have a campus life, join a club - really make friends and have the opportunity to spend several years with them at college).

She would like to stay close to the DMV area. Maybe within 3-4 hours max, but I think the closer the better.

I am looking at these, but I don't know much. I obviously do not want to suggest anything to her that would be impossible.
-Randolph-Macon/Randolph College
-ODU
-VCU
-Longwood
-Sweet Briar
-Hollins
-Radford
-JMU
-Shepherd University

Would any colleges be open to understanding her circumstances that contributed to the numbers? Are there any colleges that you could suggest that might be a good fit? I have emailed the school counselor but they are understandably preoccupied with seniors applying to college right now. Reps are coming to the school this fall and I would like to have her attend a few sessions so she can start to form some opinions and ideas about what she wants.

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