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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree it’s the stress about there not being enough good jobs for everyone and the labor market changing so quickly you can keep up (major in CS! No, don’t—all the CA jobs are being done by robots!  Data science! No wait, robots are doing that now too! Wait we don’t even call it robots anymore—it’s AI!”)

My brothers grew up in the 50s and 60s, HS in the 70s.  They got bad grades and smoked pot and got into actual fist fights.  They got yelled ant by my dad annd grounded obviously but it was all basically fine.   They have successful careers now.  Nowadays if your son got into a fist fight, omg, you would be a social pariah and he’d probably be suspended.  [b]Get a couple of Cs and you’ll be lucky to get into any college.[/b]  It’s a lot of effort to raise kids who don’t make mistakes!  I’m a pretty low key parent that doesn’t care what other people think of me, but it’s still pretty stressful.  [/quote]

The demographics are strongly against the bolded being true. "Any" college might mean any T50, but for example my very average alma mater is easier to get into now than it was when I went there. And any kid with a couple of Cs can easily go to NOVA, pull themselves together, and transfer to a Virginia state school after 2 years and graduate with the same W&M, UVA, or VT degree as someone who did much better in high school.[/quote]

Please tell me your alma later that my kid can get into with multiple Cs!  We are not in Virginia so unfortunately the nova community college trick doesn’t work for us.  It’s getting much harder to get into state universities and a lot of the lower tier private are going out of business.  [/quote]

Unfortunately I only know Virginia, but is there no equivalent to Radford where you live? Enrollment there and at Mary Washington is already going off a cliff and only going to get worse: https://cardinalnews.org/2024/10/09/state-report-says-seven-small-universities-should-be-monitored-as-enrollment-cliff-approaches/

Some of these small schools will find ways to survive, and part of that will be cheerfully accepting kids who aren't strivers.

I happen to know because I reviewed scholarship applications for a non-profit I was part of that kids with things like a 2.7 GPA are easily getting into places like Christopher Newport.

If you define "state schools" as UMD or UVA/VT/W&M then sure, it's hard.[/quote]

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