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If OP's kid is at MIT, that is one thing - quite another at a state school. [/quote]

A lot of kids struggle in their first year at MIT.  The level of rigor is intense and many kids who are used to getting all As in high school find it significantly harder to get high grades at MIT.  But most will dig in, work harder, acquire better study skills and start pulling up their marks with grit and focus.  There's a lot of growth that comes from that.

If OP's son has the grit and determination to become a stronger student, it's still a very doable to become a better engineering student if he also has aptitude for the material. If he's lacking in either of those (determination or aptitude), it may not work out.  But I don't think it's wise to encourage a kid to quit at this point if he's determined to pursue it. They grow up a LOT when life throws them curveballs and they figure out how to navigate them; or equally so, give it all they've got and decide for themselves that it isn't the right path. [/quote]

You can’t rely on grit and determination in engineering. That works only up to certain point.[/quote]

It sounds like the OP DS hast to basically develop skills and knowledge in his free time in his sophomore year, to catch up to the four years of high school that his peers were actually learning things. That is a tall order, because these students are just as determined as he is, and will keep advancing

The test to harder than the material, to generate a distribution of grades, almost no one gets a full score, and that allows the grading to be distributed along a Gaussian  curve. So he hast to actually perform better than his peers, not just ketchup to move up the curve.[/quote]

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