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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: Your child has some research to do. I would frame this as a "You failed a class as a sophomore, it is important that you understand how poor grades can influence your future choices."

He needs to:

1) Give you a list of what colleges he is interested in attending and tell you why he wants to attend those schools. 
2) Research those colleges. He needs to tell you the average GPA, course requirements, and ACT/SAT scores for each of those schools. 
3) He needs to be able to discuss with you how he is going to meet those requirements.

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I think he needs to do more than that. He needs to look deeper into the profiles of accepted students at those schools, not just the minimum requirements. He needs to learn the application and acceptance rates. He needs to talk with an admissions person at the school about his chances and what they recommend as far as how concerned he should be about the F in  Alg 2, and what he should do his two remaining years of high school. If he knows what major/career (in addition to the extracurricular area) he wants to pursue, he should also talk to those departments in the school for their admissions expectations and see how he measures up. He should find out how competitive applications to these schools and specific programs really are at each school.

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