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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Help.  My 9th grader is brillant, but refuses to do homework.  I think he has a 2.0.  To be fair, his school grades as follows:  100 - 95% A, 94 -90% B, 89 - 85% C, 84 - 80% D.  Please don't ask why we signed up for this!  It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Anyway, did you experience this with your son and did he eventually get it together and go to a good college?  How was the college process?

Thanks in advance for your advice.[/quote]

I will give you some honest advice, if your dream is for him to attend an Ivy or similarly good top-25 school, then it will be difficult with those 9th grade grades on his transcript.  UNLESS, he can turn it around and get nothing but As/B+s for the next three years, AND earn excellent scores on the SAT/ACT, the AP exams, and the SAT Subject Tests; OR he can demonstrate an incredible talent or ability in some other area (is he a talented artist, a very accomplished musician, a recruited athlete).

If he is currently in a private school, I would pull him out for 10th grade and go public.[/quote]

Well, the kid is now going to be in his Junior year ....the OP posted back in 2013.[/quote]

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