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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]It depends on why she got those grades. [/b] At the end of my freshman year, my GPA was less than half of your DD's.  I had ended up at my safety school and it turned out that I wasn't good at living away from home and was really terrible in big lecture classes where know one knew my name.  I ended up taking classes part time from home and it was like night and day.  But eventually I had to learn to both live away from home and deal with a big lecture and those semesters were like your daughter's.  If she has always gotten those grades, it could be that she should just grind out the degree and move on to other things rather than delaying and hoping for a big change from out of the blue.

"That's what we're struggling with now. Our DD has a 2.42 GPA after her freshman year. She's at a 2nd tier state school. After a year she has 18 credits because of what she dropped. I'm really having a hard time agreeing that that she should return in the fall. It's not that I don't think she should ever go to college, but right now, it doesn't seem to be the right place for her.  Before anyone asks, there are no SN, no learning disabilities. She's just a C student." [/quote]

Yes -- that's key.  Also, if 18 credits is only a bit more than 1/2 of a FT load, then the 2.4 is more of a red flag.  Unless there's a strong upward trajectory (and since PP didn't mention it, so I'm guessing there isn't), then it's worth reassessing.  Doesn't necessarily mean this is the wrong college or wrong time for college (though it might be).  But at very least it's time to look at course selection and at what kinds of support/assistance are available for students who are struggling.  While I agree that graduation from college may matter more than GPA (assuming that getting into grad school isn't an issue), I think that figuring out what's going wrong and helping your DC figure out how to plan a course of study that plays to (and enhances) her strengths is likely to pay off in both respects, as well as others.[/quote]

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