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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cautionary tales or pleasant surprises….my ADHD son is now a senior in college. He had a 35 ACT, good grades, great resume. His fantasy schools were the UCs, Villanova, USC, and Princeton. In hindsight, they thankfully didn’t take him and he is at our state school.

He didn’t like to study in high school or do anything he didn’t want to do. And that didn’t change in college.  Would a small school have been better… maybe socially..but it wouldn’t have helped him not wanting to study..and he didn’t go to office hours or tutoring or things available to him at the big school..he wouldn’t have done it at the small school either. Would he have been around more people that studied or partied less..maybe..but he didn’t want to study and didn’t.
Freshman year grades were a disaster. Sophomore year we battled still begging him to study. He is very smart…so was ultimately able to study enough to get a college degree with a low to mid 3.0 GPA.
He and we..have seen a tremendous difference in him this year..at 22. He functions so much better and studies more with hard classes. More mature and improved executive function. He tells us now…at this point he feels like if he could start college over…he could make good grades in any major. 
I don’t know if this is helpful to anyone..and please no attacks for my honesty. He at 22is a lovely person and will work hard at his future job if there is one.
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This is a lovely heartwarming post. Brought tears to my eyes.

Wishing your family the very best of luck.

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