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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

She will get there.  She just needs to learn to use the supports the school offers or get an outside tutor early.

I have an ADHD/dyslexic applying to college now, so I’m very sympathetic.  Our kids can do it![/quote]

Did OP say her DD was pre med, though? Hope you rethink that. Premeds need A’s all through college plus research experience plus some type of service and leadership experience plus some type of clinical experience (EMT, shadowing, scribing etc). [/quote]

No.  She said she was a psych major.[/quote]

Yes and somewhere along she posted that she was premed. [/quote]

OP here. Definitely not premed. Psychology.
I see the private v public high school debate going on here and it is valid. She went to large MCPS school. No exams and was aloud to retake tests and turn in work late for full credit. I did remind her before going to school that this doesn’t fly at the college level. But I could only say it once, or it would turned in to nagging, and then a fight.

I just plan to talk to her when she comes home in a few days and see what we can do better next semester. I really appreciate everyone’s comments, namely, that I shouldn’t be too hard on her, and that the natural consequence is obvious enough (I actually loved that someone pointed that out to me.)[/quote]

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