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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On what planet is a 3.0 and 26 ACT bad??  Good grief.[/quote]

OP here.  Thanks for your message.  I think that those stats are normally fine, but for our DS, he has tutoring in 3 of his 6 classes, and I am pretty sure that his GPA would be lower without the tutoring support.  Also, he had extra time on the ACT.  I can't be sure, but it seems like that must be helpful, at least for the reading section where you have time to go back to the passage to check your answers.[/quote]

You keep saying that, as if there aren't tons of kids in this area doing tutoring and getting test accommodations. As others have pointed out, the extra time is just to level the playing field, not give him an advantage. And he can get extra time in college so it's not like he can't use the same strategies he's using now once he gets there.

My DC had around a 3.0, maybe a little lower, but a 31 on the ACT (she was a reasonably good test taker), with accommodations and extra time in school and on standardized tests. She went to a SLAC ranked in the 40-50 range and graduated in 4 years. But it required dropping some classes along the way, and taking some summer classes to catch up. We would have paid for another semester but DC wanted to finish.

A large school can work if your DC is very self motivated and assertive, or is in a smaller program within the school. One of my DCs (with no learning issues) went to a very large school and thrived, but I don't think the kid I described above would have survived there.

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