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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did she go to a rigorous high school?

If she went to a public high school, this may not be her fault.

I remember the valedictorian at Wilson, or maybe he was salutatorian, wine to a top ten university. He was super  smart and driven but got bad grades freshman year. He just wasn’t adequately prepared by his high school.

It would be really inappropriate to send her to a high school thwt didn’t prepare her for college and then get mad at her for performing poorly her first semester.
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This was my freshman year roommate. She had come from a huge CA public school with straight A’s. She had gotten through high school on memorization and standardized tests. She had never been taught good time management skills bc she had always been able to do her required work quickly, and she had never been taught good writing skills. It was painful to watch her family berate her and kill her confidence more. I had come from one of the well known privates in this area and compared to my high school, college was less work and easy. It was really unfair to see the disparity in how we were prepared from our high schools. My roommate had to spend an inordinate amount of time arguing and defending herself w/ her tiger parents. Please don’t be those parents! I’d just offer to pay for whatever outside tutoring is needed and make sure your dd is proactively reaching out to her advisor and professors and using any resources available at the school. 
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