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[quote=Anonymous]My DD did amazing in high school, she was in all honors and APs, all As, captain of her sport for three years, National honor society etc. went to a top college and nearly crashed and burned first year.        A previous therapist had suggested that she had ADHD and honestly I nearly laughed in her face, this is a kid who never put a foot wrong and always did her work and aced her tests. Well guess what, she does have ADHD and we found out officially after that first year in college.

Similar to OPs kid, she had too much free time, too little structure, too much friend time, too much skipping class. It came back to bite her and I realized then how much HS forced her by its very structure to do well but college, without that structure, showed her challenges. She got medicated with adderall and now Vyvanse after that first year and she has worked to climb back to about a 3.4 gpa, graduating next month provided she doesn’t fail one class that is NOT what she should taken second semester senior year (ugh).

She is applying for jobs that never ask her Gpa and she has had great internships, which again never asked for her gpa. She is not going to necessarily be climbing the corporate ladder in her chosen career path but one thing that she always said is that she didn’t see herself in a corporate 9-5 setting. It’s not a dead end career at all and I know she’s very excited about it but a long way from the pre med she was when she started college.[/quote]

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