I had to repeat 10th grade and go to summer school for two summers in order to graduate HS on time. I barely passed the tests to get a general diploma. I'm a legal secretary. I make $90k.

Could your son do hotel hospitality? Like, being a concierge at a hotel?

I did poorly in high school. I wanted to do Ashley, but had to settle for Wynonna.

I had a 2.5 GPA in high school and 3.0 in college (easy major). Went into law enforcement, retired young and started a second career in private industry. Pension and current income = $300k.

I didn’t do great, because I had an abusive alcoholic father and a mother with severe depression, and it was chaotic and difficult.
I was waitlisted at a univ but went for an interview and impressed them. Off the waitlist before I left the interview. Made honors by end of first semester, graduated manga cum laude in 3 years. Went on to masters.
Did really well for myself, but wish I’d had the family stability support to go to med school.
That being said, look into the merchant marine program. Free education and guaranteed a well paid job and career.

I was not a good academic student, and probably had some learning disabilities which no one knew about back then in the third-world country I grew up in. It didn’t help that everyone else in my family were overachievers. I got saved from misery because of an uncle and aunt who encouraged my interest in art and paid for my education when my parents refused to. I do freelance design work and now make $100k on a schedule that works for my family.

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Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know did poorly in high school. They built their own businesses

I think y’all need to delineate between the smart, bored daydreamer bad-GPA students and the teen pregnancy, juvenile petty crime, 20% absenteeism bad-GPA students.

+1.

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Anonymous wrote:I did poorly. 2.6 GPA. Make 210k. I did a lot better in college than high school.

That’s not much

Okay. I wasnt asserting that it was, I was answering the OP's question. Chill out.

I struggled in HS. Worked hard and did pretty well in college. Crushed it in grad school.

I needed to learn how to study. I needed to learn what was interesting to me and to choose my classes and days and professors wisely. I needed the motivation of having a career that was meaningful to me. I needed to grow up.

I probably have some mild, undiagnosed, not worth medicating ADHD. So plopping me in a biology classroom and expecting me to care about it and figure out how to study for it was not going work. But putting me in a creative environment with creative and passionate professors, and letting me do hands on work that I enjoyed… I was able to thrive.

Anonymous wrote:I did poorly. 2.6 GPA. Make 210k. I did a lot better in college than high school.

That’s not much

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Anonymous wrote:I did poorly. 2.6 GPA. Make 210k. I did a lot better in college than high school.

FYI only 40% of any developed country graduates from college.

U.S. has a big fall out rate too since less merit testing to access programs

Can you explain why you are responding to my post with this?

I did great in high school (one of the best students in my class) and now I am a middle aged underemployed woman with a college degree. One of my high school male classmates failed several classes, barely made it through college but ended up taking over successfully the family business and is now a millionaire
PS this was not in USA but I think good grades are nor necessarily a guarantee of success in life

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Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know did poorly in high school. They built their own businesses

I think y’all need to delineate between the smart, bored daydreamer bad-GPA students and the teen pregnancy, juvenile petty crime, 20% absenteeism bad-GPA students.

This there is dumb and there is on some other path. And let’s be real there are dumb people in this world.

I know a lot of people in healthcare that did mediocre in school - phlebotomists, x-ray techs, medical assistants, etc. and that is likely what I will push DD towards. Solid jobs always in demand.

Anonymous wrote:I did poorly. 2.6 GPA. Make 210k. I did a lot better in college than high school.

FYI only 40% of any developed country graduates from college.

U.S. has a big fall out rate too since less merit testing to access programs

Anonymous wrote:The richest people I know did poorly in high school. They built their own businesses

I think y’all need to delineate between the smart, bored daydreamer bad-GPA students and the teen pregnancy, juvenile petty crime, 20% absenteeism bad-GPA students.