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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son had a 1.8 2nd semester but a 2.5 1st so the year ended up 2.1 at a T30 school.

He graduated last year and said to me, you never mentioned my 1.8 to me that summer after freshman year, why?

I guess I just knew you knew you had to fix it or the next year you’d be coming home to go to a state school and either you’d fix it or you wouldn’t and there was nothing I could do to make that happen.

I can’t promise you she will fix it.

My youngest got a sub 3.0 and was kicked out of the business school so he changed to communication and had to either sink or swim. We did discuss what would be options for a new major. He was sad.

I don’t advocate for coming down hard.

The natural consequence are pretty apparent.[/quote]

Do you think your child might have done better (felt more confident/competent) at a lower ranked school?

I wonder this if parents pull out every stop (test prep, consultants, etc) to get them into a school that is a reach.[/quote]

Definitely not. The school was a good fit her. It takes a wide range of kids, a large public out of state university. Her test scores were slightly above the 75th percentile, GPA perfectly within the 25-75. A target school, and perhaps even borderline safety school. She got into “better” schools. 
I agree that parents sometimes pull out all the stops to get their kids into a higher rank school. That is not us. [/quote]

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