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[quote=Anonymous]2 years out of HS seems like a really weird time to conclude that your kid peaked in HS — especially bizarre when most of those two years have been in the midst of a global pandemic.

So step back and get some perspective.

How low is the GPA in question? Under 3.0 at a top Ivy could indicate something is wrong (it’s pretty easy to get Bs at these schools in humanities majors). But if you’re just freaked out that DC’s Ivy grades aren’t as good as DC’s HS grades well, that just means that in a more competitive pool, DC isn’t top of the class.  Not surprising and not an indicator of laziness or self-sabotage.

Re useless majors. Elite private colleges in the US pride themselves on not being vocational schools. (What that’s all about and whether it’s an effed-up or laudable or class-specific POV is a topic for another day. Take it as a given in this context. Your kid is an an environment that is structured this way and is there by choice (yours presumably included).) Some companies hire kids with BAs and many/most? don’t really care about majors. It’s not as if your DC could have majored in marketing or pharmacy or education or nursing or accounting at a top Ivy — engineering isn’t even always an option at these schools. And, yet, their grads are employable…[/quote]

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