Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 14:39     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Their comment was not directed at the child or circumstances but likely the other poster saying if you write admissions about something it would always have a positive outcome. One prompt on the common app essay was this exact question.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 14:39     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Anonymous wrote:GPA slightly below 3.0

Are there schools other than community college?


Of course, there are:

Cornell, High Point, Fairfield, Manhattan College, Salisbury, lower prestige arts colleges like SCAD, etc

There are lots. You also may be able to get away with better schools that happen to be in very undesirable locations and for that reason fewer applicants
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 14:08     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Some are a little far but all public...
VA: ODU, Radford
NC: ECU, WCU, UNCC, UNCG
SC: CCU
WV: WVU
MD: Frostburg, Salisbury?
GA: GA Southern
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 14:00     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Ask admissions office if you can submit letter of special circumstances. Also, this is something that recommenders can sometimes convey in their letters—I’ve seen it several times (work at a university), e.g., “this student has overcome great challenges… grades do not reflect interest or capabilities… give student a chance….”
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:43     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:College prof here.

There are C students who sincerely care and try or maybe they have difficulties that are hard to overcome. They are genuinely benefitting from college.

There are C students who are smart enough but absolutely not interested in school and are getting a C average because they are earning Ds and Fs in some classes and Bs and As in a few easy ones or ones where they can game assignments or group work. These students hardly come to class and often surface at the last minute or ask for favors from classmates and teachers.

The former are good candidates for smaller schools that form personal relationships with students or ones that have programs like PP mentioned. The later should take time to mature or decide if they'd rather pursue a passion or trade. I say this as someone who watches students waste thousands of dollars each year, many unbeknownst to parents until it's too late.


I think there are more than two kinds of C students. Mine tests off the charts in many areas of strength, but has severe ADHD, very low executive function, and visuospatial processing disorder. This makes some classes, especially the quant-based classes in his business school curriculum, very hard. You're right that he does do well in other types of classes, which you may consider easy, while getting Ds and even an F in the ones that are harder for him. This is not because he doesn't show up. It's because he has challenges. He will graduate with a C+ GPA from a top 25 national university. He will probably struggle to find a job and may wind up in trade anyway. But it's not a waste to us. He is building incredible knowledge and making lifetime connections with bright, hard-working people.


Your kid will be fine. When it comes to business majors, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the businesses, and the D students dedicate the buildings.


Thanks for that. I worry about him all the time!
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:36     Subject: Re:Are there four year colleges for C students.
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
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.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:32     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
I had a 77.8 GPA in HS and got into several 4 year schools no problem.

And I had a 2.7 GPA in college got into several grad schools

The most ironic part a good college took me StonyBrook. You need an 85 GPA but they told me that is just average. They save some spots for charity cases like me.

Sadly I almost failed out and had to transfer schools. More ironic since StonyBrook a good school no one care I had a 1.97 GPA!!

And I got 990 on SAT

BTW StonyBrook no joke
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:15     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Occidental College
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:12     Subject: Re:Are there four year colleges for C students.
Anonymous wrote:
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.


Longwood
Radford
Mary Baldwin (now co-ed)
Roanoke
Old Dominion

I'm more familiar with VA colleges, but there are some decent Maryland options as well.


We LOVED Roanoke. Kid made a different choice, but I would have been happy having him there!
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:12     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Anonymous wrote:90% of the people on this board suggesting schools for C students are not up-to-date on the increased academic profiles and selectivity of colleges in the last three years.


What colleges do you recommend in VA then?
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:10     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Bridgewater in VA is well known in the LD/ND community
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:10     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Anonymous wrote:GPA slightly below 3.0

Are there schools other than community college?


What are the student's goals?

Do you want to start at a 4 year, or do 2-year first and then transfer?
Why?

Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:08     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
Another small school, if willing to go to WV, is WV Wesleyan
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:08     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
90% of the people on this board suggesting schools for C students are not up-to-date on the increased academic profiles and selectivity of colleges in the last three years.
Anonymous
Post 01/16/2024 13:07     Subject: Are there four year colleges for C students.
In VA, you can also try Emory & Henry (soon to be) University