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[quote=Anonymous]For context- my senior had really great grades up until senior year. He is AUDH but does not accept his challenge and limitations.he is also exceedingly bright. Up until this year, we have double checked everything and basically been his admin assistant, which he needed but resented. It’s not the content. It’s the execution: not using organizational systems, not wanting to work with an EF coach, not submitting assignments, wanting to submit crap work because they were non-preferred subjects (which we did not let him and made him redo), not using the accommodations we fought hard to get like extra time and using a computer for in-class writing assignments.

This year, he says he is tired of coaches, tutors, etc and wants to manage things on his own. He’s rigid enough that he will just do things his way. But, we’ve let him manage all on his own. And he’s doing…fine. Not great but mostly A’s and some B’s and a B-/c+ in AP Calculus (which is not because he doesn’t understand content but because he makes careless errors). He is lucky that he already has several good choices to choose from for school and I anticipate him getting into rigorous engineering schools. He has applied to several “safeties” that are good schools and several of those are fairly small which I think it would be good for him. If he applied with the grades he has now, he’d probably get in. He would not get into the big state schools he really likes like GA Tech among other that he has a shot at getting in.

We were thinks of having a conversation about our comfort level of paying for an expensive OOS school with his current grades and would like to see improvement and we can decide at the appropriate time which schools but we are not inclined to pay for these OOS schools with high rigor unless we see improvement in grades or (what I would like to see more than anything) a
level of insight of his challenges and being proactive about those. [/quote]

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