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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you all for the responses. I was so worried that I would get slammed for this. He is a senior in high school. I guess he feels like everyone else knows their major so he feels like he should as well. I did tell him that the first year will pretty much the same for everyone no matter their major. He will be taking the non credit Math, Reading and Writing classes during the Summer, on campus, because his SAT was so low. He does not like that idea but I think it is great to help prepare him for college. To follow up with others, he is not artistic at all, he struggled with advanced Math and we bumped him down to regular and he obtained a B. He is a kid that honestly has no motivation or desire. His dad thinks that he is perfect for the military. He is the type of kid that if you tell him to do it, he will do it and not complain but does not take initiative on his own. Dad said that is the military for him but we have to support that he wants to go to college.[/quote]

People are generally nice to parents that don't seem to be trolling with questions like "my 1590 son with a 4.8 GPA is trying to decide whether to go to MIT for computer science/math double major or go play quarterback at Stanford with an economics/physics double major.  OR should we reconsider the offers at princeton, yale or caltech?... PLEASE HELP!!!!"

You son might be a late bloomer but we all know kids that ended up financially successful without the aid of AP calculus or particle physics.  Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard and fortunately for your kid, most kids are not working hard these days (sorry, not sorry).[/quote]

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