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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I attended an elite university from a less r  background and a rural high school with no AP courses. Few classmates pursued college, mostly at State. I arrived with major gaps in writing, math, and science, and struggled while peers thrived. A semester at State felt far easier. In hindsight, starting locally and aiming for elite grad school might’ve been wiser.

Do colleges now offer better support for students with academic gaps? Back then, options were limited and mostly tied to groups I didn’t qualify for.[/quote]

They do offer more guardrails now, but they also lowered the bar on FGLI and pell grant kids in the name of socioeconomic diversity and rankings, as USNews cares.  Some kids are just unprepared. It does no one any good to arrive as unprepared as you were, or worse. 
I was unprepared too at ivy, but had a toptier score and had a few APs. I lagged initially then soared, phi beta kappa, and went to a T5 law with a fellowship. My kid at same ivy has poor friends like I was and they have more support now than i did but some are too far below what the bar should be and some do not want to put the effort in to learn how to study and compete with the private school or top magnet kids. [/quote]

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