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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd probably go the community college route for a year or two and transfer.  Doing well senior year can't hurt of course, but probably won't make up for a bad junior year.

It also matters what his course load looked like and where he goes to school. If he got Cs but all AP classes that might be better than Cs in on level classes.  Cs in public school would be more problematic than Cs in private school.

31 is a respectable ACT but not knocking it out of the park (my DC got a 31).

There are probably some schools that he can get into, but you have to decide if they are the right fit and worth the money.
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Do you have any suggestions about places where he might be able to get in? He got Cs in mostly AP classes.[/quote]

St Marys of MD, WVU, University of Central FL, Salisbury, Towson, Shippensburg, York College, Frostburg State, etc.  Maybe Delaware.  What do the various search engines pop up?  What does his college counselor say?[/quote]

I feel like this student could be me.  I had a good Freshman and Sophomore year, followed by a Junior year that was mostly C's, with a D and a B.  I had very good SAT scores and ACT scores ~1400/33 or so (this was before the re-centering in the 90's, so add a ~100 or so to the SAT to compare to scores now).  I ended up going to WVU where I continued with the same work/study habits.  I came an inch away from flunking out.  It's important to find out [b]_why_[/b] someone who is smart is having so much trouble in school.  I was simply apathetic in school, and couldn't find any classes that really interested me.  The solution for me it was finding the right major.  Once I found that I became interested in learning, got very good grades and ended up getting a full ride to a really good graduate school. Your child clearly has the ability to do well; you just need to find what motivates him.[/quote]

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