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[quote=Anonymous]"        This is why parents shouldn't just pay for college. Tie reimbursement of tuition to performance. I.e. I pay 89% if you get a 3.0, 100% if you get a 4.0, whatever.

So you get a free ride with a communications major but you risk owing a substantial amount if you major in physics? yeah. good move.

[b]Don't major in physics unless you love it and are prepared to study hard and do well.
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This is a good message to send whether or not you tie reimbursement of tuition to performance."

Almost exactly 0 first-time college students can reasonably know these 3 points.

Very few HSs teach enough physics to allow a student to figure out if they love it.

Depending on the HS, many kids have no idea what it means to "study hard" when they actually get to a selective university.

Even if a student has learned to study hard in HS, if they choose to attend a college that is a reach for their HS record, "doing well" is a roll of the dice that involves lots of factors unrelated to academic effort.

For example, I went to a fairly rural HS.  I went to a top 20 university.  That university let me skip every introductory course. It was a disaster.

My parents patiently sent me back for the second semester.  I almost made the cut except the college insisted I needed a C- rather than a D+ in the course I took in my major course to continue.

I transferred to my state flagship.  Never got a grade lower than a B+ and graduated with honors.

When I went to grad school, I faced the same problem.  My background was weak and I got straight gentlemens' Bs my first semester.

After that semester, once my background was the same as the other grad students in my class, I never got another B.[/quote]

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