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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How well he did academically (much better than in high school) and how much he has matured.  He has major executive functioning problems and not only held it together, but excelled.

I am also very happy to see how he is thriving generally.  [/quote]

First year used to be a weed-out year, now it's a joke. Advisors make kids take really light loads, and colleges water down first-year courses so they can inflate their retention numbers and keep kids on campus.

Get confident after your DC aces sophomore year courses.[/quote]

You are a jerk.[/quote]

I speak from experience. Many colleagues have boasted about their kid's first year grades, 18 months later Jr is home on the couch![/quote]

I have no idea what kind of college your referring to but at selective school advisors will encourage student to take as hard a course load as they feel that they confidently handle. The students are pushed to challenge themselves. Maybe your experience has been with state schools or the like but you're way off base for top tier universities which really don't have to worry about attrition. [/quote]

It's a mix everywhere.  Advice depends on the advisor more than the school.  Rigor of first year courses probably depends more on the major (and student placement) than on the school.  Your assumptions about public vs (elite) private schools don't work either.  Publics are, if anything, more likely to have weeder courses; lots of grade inflation at elite privates.  [/quote]

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