Anonymous wrote:Not sure how current it is, but here's a list of Florida colleges known for accepting low GPAs. If the article's data is accurate, 15% of admits at Rollins in Orlando had below a 3.0. That's not a bad school at all.

https://collegejaguar.com/the-best-colleges-in-florida-that-accept-a-2-5-gpa/

Anonymous wrote:Binghamton has an amazing program for C students.

You live on campus. Freshman year you go to community college in Binghamton and if you get a 3.0 GPA all credits transfer and admitted officially to Binghamton

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Anonymous wrote:Budget less then 40k per year.

Distance prefer 3-5 hours from DMV area (could be closer, but doesn't want to live at home)

Student has an amazing essay and has overcome a long term hospitalization, followed by bare minimum classes (took summer school all three years to stay on grade level) and grades for a year due to major health issue, then lingering depression. Now both are under control. There could be one surgery in the future, but doctor thinks it can wait until age 24-25.

But GPA and SAT score are subpar. I think the essay could really get them into the right program, if school looks at bigger picture.

Thank you for any recommendations and kindness.

Try Muhlenberg, Elon, Towson, Goucher

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Anonymous wrote:Every kid we know who has gotten into Alabama this year has had over a 3.8.

The GPAs in this country are so wacko. At my kid's rigorous private a 3.8 puts you in the top tier. But you can't always get accepted bc of all of the highly inflated GPAs at other schools. It is screwed up. None of these kids have seen below an A-? Really??

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Anonymous wrote:It really depends on the high school. My son went to local very rigorous private. Graduated with a 2.99, admitted to Pitt, F&M, Lafayette, Furman, Sewanee, Indiana, Conn College and a few others I am forgetting. Maintaining a C+ average in college, too, unfortunately, because of his LDs. Incredibly intelligent kid, excelling in some subjects and bombing others. Fortunately, he knows this about himself and has learned to be okay with it. He will have a degree in a year and half and then figure it out from there. But yes, college is possible if he is hard worker and knows his strengths.

Lol yea “incredibly intelligent” but couldn’t break a 3.0 in either high school or college. Ok.

I'm guessing you are not "incredibly intelligent," otherwise you would know that plenty of highly intelligent people get low grades, especially in high school.

Nope. Not all through high school and college they don’t. Especially not nowadays.

Come on now. WTF are you talking about. My kid who has a higher IQ and is very intelligent gets worse grades than my less smart but harder working kid. Were you literally born yesterday?

If your kid has a C average in both high school in college, then no, the kid is not “very intelligent”. I don’t care what some silly test says about his IQ.

How about you just shut up if you can’t offer kind and constructive advice. No need to be so hateful and such a know it all.

-NP

I am offering constructive advice, which is that a student with a C+ average in high school is highly unlikely to do well at most colleges, and probably should aim very low. I also would not invest any money in educating that student at a private college. There is at least a 50-50 chance that the student will not graduate.

I was a C student who got into a T50 school. Why was I a C student? Because I was miserable, bored, almost definitely undxed with ADHD, and cut class a lot to go to the public library and study things that interested me.

College was a fantastic awakening for me and a chance to really learn to learn and learn to love it. I realize I was incredibly lucky that the selective school I got into took a chance on me, and I know such chances are a lot less common now, but being a poor student in high school can be the result of a lot of things, many of which have nothing to do with academic potential.

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Anonymous wrote:Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, WV. Cute town, too. Fits all of your requirements.

This is actually an excellent suggestion. The kid will get in and even out of state tuition is affordable. It’s a very friendly nice little town and community.
Also, surprisingly, super liberal and woke

That would be a dealbreaker. Not that my kid is looking at C-student schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools can accept you on probation if you don’t fully meet their requirements, & convert that to full acceptance once you prove you can do the work.

Utah State University accepts 95%

Shepherd University (small public school in West Virginia) accepts 96%

I had a C+ average in high school. After one year at a community college I was accepted to a school that is now accepting less than 15%. That was a while ago, but I mention it to show you it can be done. I went on to get 2 master’s degrees & have taught at community colleges for over 30 years.

Couldn’t land a gig above the CC level?

Different prof here. If you saw the higher education job market you'd have a lot more regard for my colleague's long teaching career and hard work. CC faculty, 4-year college faculty, and university faculty are all the kind of people that DCUM wants its DCs to study with, but who teaches where is a function of a thousand things. Almost all of us have degrees from places that are way more prestigious than the places we actually work. We bloom where we're planted (and sometimes we are planted at random). But we are all deserving of the same professional respect as everyone else here on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Schools can accept you on probation if you don’t fully meet their requirements, & convert that to full acceptance once you prove you can do the work.

Utah State University accepts 95%

Shepherd University (small public school in West Virginia) accepts 96%

I had a C+ average in high school. After one year at a community college I was accepted to a school that is now accepting less than 15%. That was a while ago, but I mention it to show you it can be done. I went on to get 2 master’s degrees & have taught at community colleges for over 30 years.

Couldn’t land a gig above the CC level?

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Anonymous wrote:Budget less then 40k per year.

Distance prefer 3-5 hours from DMV area (could be closer, but doesn't want to live at home)

Student has an amazing essay and has overcome a long term hospitalization, followed by bare minimum classes (took summer school all three years to stay on grade level) and grades for a year due to major health issue, then lingering depression. Now both are under control. There could be one surgery in the future, but doctor thinks it can wait until age 24-25.

But GPA and SAT score are subpar. I think the essay could really get them into the right program, if school looks at bigger picture.

Thank you for any recommendations and kindness.

Try Muhlenberg, Elon, Towson, Goucher

Seriously, what is WRONG with you people? OP said the budget is under $40k. Muhlenberg for one is nearly twice that much and ain’t giving merit aid to a C+ applicant.

Threads like this are the worst: a whole bunch of posters just pulling random colleges out of their a$$es.