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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is high school freshman and had a 99% HSPT. After his first semester he’ll have a 3.6/3.7 unweighted gpa (weighted closer to 4.0). He’s struggling with the amount of homework and getting things in on time, but is very bright especially in math and science. We think these things can improve but his classes will get harder through the years.

He currently plays a sport every season but we want him to possibly re think that for next year and going forward. It definitely impacts how tired he is and how much time he has to study. He is pretty good at two of the sports and not great at the one. He enjoys all of them and his friends with all of them. I don’t think we would say “no sports” but maybe cut down to two and eventually one?

[b]We don’t care where he goes to school as long it is a good fit. What we don’t want is for him to really want to go to a school and not have the gpa for it come junior year when he’s actually paying attention/knows how this works. [/b]He is taking several hard classes and I assume he’ll take AP classes starting in junior year. I do think you’ll be well prepared and I also think that his study skills will hopefully get better overtime – – fingers crossed!

So here’s my question: parents have been through this possibly with a similar type of kid what advice do you have? And how should we steer him? Other things you learned/I may not know? [/quote]

It will be your job as a parent to only get him excited about schools when he is a HS junior that are mostly targets and safeties (with a legit reach thrown in there) so what you describe won't happen.

Don't have him tour Harvard, Yale and Princeton (which may not excite him), when you know even a reach for your kid is BC as an example.[/quote]

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