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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My junior is going to have a few Cs this year. It is what it is. Hardworking kid in AP classes, rough year due to a variety of circumstances. He will have around a 3.4 or 3.5 weighted GPA. ACT score pending, but practice was a 29.

What 4 year schools should he be looking at that can look past a few bad grades in a craptastic year? Anywhere along the east coast, and any price point is fine. [/quote]

You could be describing my kid. Junior year. Lots of AP classes, very strong until this year, but now likely two Cs.

First of all, please know there is at least one other family out there dealing with this. When you're lying awake at night worried, so am I.  And please don't listen to the trolls on this board. Not every kid "thrived" in DL and our kids didn't stumble because they are lazy or we weren't involved enough. Schools weren't "handing out As" this year. Eff people who keep saying these things.

Now, the good news. There are a ton of four-year colleges that will take our kids. Good ones, even. They don't have the cachet that the snobby side of DCUM likes, but they are great schools. My son is currently looking at VCU, JMU, GMU and CNU in Virginia. My son is also looking at Penn State, Pitt and U Del out of state. He's even going to shoot his shot at VT because one area of study he is considering is super specific and not very popular on the east coast. They might take him just to fill out the program.

We have also planted the idea of two years of community college to him, then a guaranteed transfer to VT or UVA, in case he doesn't get in anywhere he'll be happy to go. We don't want him to feel like he's "settled" for anything or is being punished for working his butt off during incredibly tough conditions.

It'll be fine. It'll be fine. In a year and a half, we are going to be sending both our kids off to wonderful schools where they will embark on new adventures with a clean slate and this craptastic year will just be a bad memory. 
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Hear, hear!  I don’t know where people got the handing out As rumor from. Perplexing. My kid is working her butt off for her grades, and they aren’t all As![/quote]

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