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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is at a top LAC and is struggling with Calc 2 (he already did Calc 1 last semester and did ok). He had a bumpy first semester as a freshman and is now stressed out about this semester because of Calc 2. He is talking about transferring as he feels like he does not belong in the college academically (socially happy). He came from a rigorous private and did well, although always weaker in math but made it through to Calc and did fine. Plenty of APs with good grades. We were surprised at how much he struggled first semester at college. He wants to do sciences/pre med so is required to take Calc 2 for this course. A[b]ny advice?[/quote][/b]

1)  If he is still serious about sciences/pre med, hire a private tutor
2) let him hire the tutor
3) if he doesn't follow through with that, then he doesn't have what it takes to be pre-med, which is FINE!.  Calc is supposed to be a weed out.  My own kid gave up aerospace engineering at the Calc 3 point and switched to humanities.  He is now at Harvard Law.
4) This is a normal part of the sciences/pre-med weed-out.  Support your son and explain this to him but let him decide if he's going to continue with this major.[/quote]

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