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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Because he doesn’t have friends who are uber academic, he doesn’t get how much dedication it takes. He has the intellectual ability. He got overconfident after first year with all As. Then he signed up for tough courses second year but studied with his good ball friends. This semester GPA now 3.3. Not one A in a science course. No Cs though. [/quote]

What college has bunches of kids who are not academic? Why are they there? Look my spouse is a doctor and is a first gen from a blue collar family. Lots of doctors come from a blue collar background. In fact now that i think about it the best friend is also blue collar originsand went to Harvard Law. 
This was all from a top 10 private. Blue collar is not the problem, it is your kid’s lack of motivation to investigate what it takes, and also the peers at the college sound unmotivated academically. Some wealthy kids are that way, though in my experience unmotivated in college is very rare or was at my school and is rare at my kids(ivy, uva).[/quote]

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