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OP, have your kid apply for all the professional/academic striver clubs again in September when everyone is back. For the record, I’d be incredibly unhappy if my (clearly bright) kid was slacking off at the first opportunity s/he gets. Your kid should be grateful to be at such a prestigious school, and s/he needs to repay that gratitude by using the Columbia degree to get a high paying job after graduation. Everything else is just fluff. [/quote]

This is fantasy and honestly pointless. Rising seniors don't apply to clubs anymore, they're over that crap. And it'd be super weird to have some random old upperclassman who's never participated in the club randomly begin attending / applying with freshmen. Rising seniors are supposed to be LEADERS of clubs, not trying to join along side 17 and 18 yo freshman. And of course the OP's kid doesn't listen to mom and dad, they're not going to start now, so this is just delusional.

OP's kid is baked in the cake. After graduation all the rich "friends" will retreat off to their affluent enclaves, be jet-setters and loafers and marry each other -- and OP's kid won't be able to keep up and the "friendships" will quickly fade.

OP's kid won't realized they pissed away the opportunity until it's too late.[/quote]

OP, if your kid is a rising junior, it’s not too late to take a gap year and transfer to the state school. S/he’d probably be able to handle CS or at least accounting there. Do it. Your kid will thank you in the future. [/quote]

What is wrong with you people? Do you genuinely believe a kid with an A minus average in a tough major at an elite school is doomed? [/quote]

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