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[quote=Anonymous]DC is a STEM student at a top 10 LAC finishing junior year. Quite Bright but completely unmotivated and is absolutely hating the culture of the school. Grades have been on a steady decline since freshman year but DC has had great internships every summer and will be interning at a top tech firm this summer out west (think silicon valley/seattle firms like GOOG, MS, FB, Amazon).

DC has received great reviews/recs from internships but is doing horribly in school, will probably be put on academic probation after this semester ends. DC only needs one more semester to graduate (on path to graduating a semester early) with the bare minimum credits for the STEM major but does not want to go back. Many interns end up getting a full time offer from the tech firm DC is interning at but DC is going to ask if the offer can be acted on right after finishing the internship and start full time without coming back to school.

I am completely against this and want DC to come back to finish and graduate before starting fulltime at the firm out west. I know compared to other fields, tech has a fair share of successful drop outs but regardless of grades I feel that sticking it out for one more semester and finishing strong will provide a sense of security for DC in terms of being a college graduate and having the degree in case sometime in the future DC needs to fall back on it for some reason or another.

This past year DC has wanted to drop out but has stuck with it but now is really serious about it. The administration wants to see DC stay and graduate but that just makes DC want to leave even more because DC is very cynical and feels they just want the tuition money.

I'm at a loss on how to convince DC to come back and atleast do respectably well in the last semester. I feel since it is so close to the finish line, dropping out now is just asinine.

How would you guys handle this? 
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