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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is your child hooked by URM or geo diversity?

If so, he needs to slow down now before it's too late. Retake classes or take less accelerated classes, are pad with electives that overlap with classes already taken. It's much better to take a 5th or 6th year to graduate with a solid education, then too stumble through 4 years and fail at the end.

Your son's classmates did a year or two of college in high school. Yours didn't, and that's okay. Now is the time to do that work, not try to skip it. [/quote]

Agree with this.  I don't agree with those being completely fine about this.  It's concerning both because 1)he isn't mastering the material--which in this case is actually incredibly important for subsequent classes and even work (this aren't history courses) AND 2)the engineering job/internship world right now is not forgiving of GPAs under 3.0.  Just because he has not completely failed out into an easier major (and some kids in his cohort have) does not mean his path will be easy.  And the engineering world (let's say Boeing) does not worship HYP at all like DCUM does. The marquee employers will have plenty of kids applying with high GPAs from state schools with outstanding engineering programs AND also from his own HYP.  It's not easy to get a good internship or job in 2023.  I'm not saying it's impossible but it's not a guarantee at all. [/quote]

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