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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you for all the support. Just want to give a shout out that this is actually the kindest I’ve ever seen DCUM. 
Couple things. I don’t think the school was too hard for her, as someone suggested. This is a large public university that caters to good students and inner city kids. It’s a true mix, and I think it was a good fit for her. Her scores were in the 75th percentile. It was a target school, borderline safety school. She was accepted to “better” schools. The point about the school accepting her knowing this would happen (losing merit aid) is interesting, I never thought of that.
She did have a lot of money in her bank account. She worked for two years scooping ice cream, and got pandemic pay for one of those years. She also had bat mitzvah money and a gift from grandparents. It’s a savings account that she pretty much has never touched. 
The hardest part of this, as a parent, is watching her be so hard on herself. She too went to an MCPS school with inflated grades, and where there were no final exams. This week was horrendous for her studying. Something she was not accustomed to it all.
I think we just need to talk to her and see what the real problem was. It wasn’t partying, I think it was a bit of a screen addiction, and the freedom of not having me nag and look at Canvas. She wants to do well.[/quote]

One thing is that a lot of schools have easy admissions but high weedout rates. A 2.0 might actually be a decent first semester GPA at a school like that. [/quote]

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