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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC's close friend is a highly performing and artistic student with dyslexia attending a T20 school with full tuition ride. [/quote]

That’s great! Good for them!

OP’s kid is not an academic superstar and she is agonizing about the fact that he isn’t, worried that going to a T20 (or Twhatever) is a measure of or necessary step to the good life.

That way madness lies. OP needs help seeing all the possible ways a dyslexic person (any person, really) can thrive and succeed, so she can support her son and not fear for him. There is nothing in her description of him to fear. [/quote]

PP you responded too. You made good points, but let me share something else: DC's close friend got their T-20 full tuition ride based on their artistic and leadership abilities, not scholastic abilities (applied TO since SAT well below that school's stats). My point is that OP's DS has other gifts beyond scholastic achievements and she should not presume that her son's college future is not as bright.[/quote]

Absolutely, if he has a 3.8 GPA or something he should shoot high as high as he wants, relying on his other strengths to give him a boost. Everyone has strengths and weaknesses.

But I’m assuming OP’s kid is like my dyslexic kid - his dyslexia makes school hard, and because it has been so hard and frustrating for so long he is cynical about it and doesn’t do everything he needs to do to get high grades - he’d have to work a lot harder than other kids, and he isn’t willing. So B’s it is.

And you know what? B’s will get you into hundreds of interesting, challenging, colleges where a kid can thrive. Both paths are great. You just need to recognize which kid you have.[/quote]

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