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My child has always been a really good student and has done well both at home and local co-op classes.  Current GPA is 3.85. We just looked at

current college GPA and it's at 3.46.  I can tell by her behavior that this is really bothering my child.  My child already feels not good enough to compete with a ACT score of 23 and SAT score of 1090.  A few college tours has lifted my child's spirits when it was shown the the scores/transcripts were good enough to apply to the interested schools.

I just wish my child wouldn't get so caught up  in the numbers.

I was a solid C student in high school but did get the B in college. Low B but I got it.

Study skills are pretty good but I know it's hard to study when you share a room with sibling who is a few years younger then you are.  Our home is a small under 1500 square footage home with only 3 bdrms.  Not many places to go for quiet either.  

 

 

 

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For quiet study place, some ideas- (we had a small house shared with loud babies & toddlers)

 

Give her set hours alone in the shared bedroom with noise cancelling headphones to work alone

Let her stay at the CC after class for a few hours a day to work in the library there

 

3.46 GPA in college classes for a teen is not "bad", IMO.

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My DS goes to the college library to study. He has quiet at home, but finds it easier to focus when he works on campus.

 

A 3.46 GPA at college is not "bad". There may be less grade inflation. In my introductory physics course, only about 25% of students get an A. 

 

Does she have a reasonable expectation of the time required outside of class? It may well be 2 hours for every hour in class. 

Is she using on campus academic assistance like learning centers, tutoring, writing center?

 

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My 16 yo has taken 5 classes this year. It looks like he will end up with 4 As and a B. I am really happy with that. I've always told mine I expect As and Bs but if they got a B I expect them to have worked hard for it. As long as they did a B is just fine. I am a bit caught off guard with the local moms who consider anything less than an A a poor grade.

 

My college Freshman has also had about the same type of grades, mostly As with some A- and Bs in there. He works really hard.

 

My kids are bright but not gifted or anywhere close. I usually tell them something to the effect that if they had all As on every assignment and grade I would question the integrity of the grading or the legitimacy of the college. We laugh but there is alot of truth in that.

 

Sometimes a kid can work really hard and still not get an A in every class. With a dual enrollment student I would make sure that all the assignments were turned in and any low grades were reviewed to make sure she knows why she lost points.

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The classes are all online. No actual campus to go to.  I will look into those kinds of headphones. In a perfect world younger sibling would leave older sibling alone but it's a struggle. grrrrr It's getting better but a struggle. Teen actually goes to my room to study on those difficult days.

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And in a perfect world at a residential college, she would never encounter loud roommates, parties, etc when she wants to study, either, so this is good prep for college later on. :)

 

Do you weight grades? If she's comparing her grades with other high schoolers, from what I can tell, the vast majority of high schools weight dual enrollment classes with an extra point, so a B in the DE class would be a 4.0, and an A a 5.0.

 

Does she have previous experience with online classes? Online courses can also be much tougher to deal with than in-person classes because it's harder to stay disciplined, get everything in on time, and more effort to interact with the professor. My daughter is doing well in her in-person classes, but may end up with a B in her second semester of ASL. She's getting ready to try her first online class, which is also on a compressed schedule, so it will be a new challenge even though she's had a lot of experience in online classes.

 

Take a look at www.collegesimply.com, where she can search on colleges by ACT or SAT score.

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And in a perfect world at a residential college, she would never encounter loud roommates, parties, etc when she wants to study, either, so this is good prep for college later on. :)

 

 

It's usually pretty easy to find an alternative study spot at college, though - common room, library, etc. 

 

OP, can she just plan to study in your room from the get-go? Then, if her sibs bother her, it's clearly intentional (and I'd be pretty fierce with kids that age who intentionally disturb schoolwork). 

 

If there's a library or Starbucks in easy distance, that would be another alternative. Even if you have to drive her and pick her up, it may be well worth it. I'm assuming she's approaching finals, so I'd make it a point to accommodate her if at all possible. 

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Well, you don't want her too stressed about the numbers, but on the other hand it's not good when they're not stressed at all....

 

My youngest dd has two C's already, and they're both not because she didn't have a quiet place to study or the material was over her head, but because she totally didn't bother to study at all.  She totally winged it.  She wasn't interested in the material/ didn't like the teacher /excuses/excuses.

 

In the classes she likes, she gets A's and B's.  We're going to try to knock out the GenEds during DE...

 

But studying in the library (school or town) is a very good idea.  Even my study-averse one does that when she's motivated, and it always makes her much more productive.

 

ETA: Just read back and saw you said there's no campus?  Then town library, or even a Starbucks or other coffee shop?  There's something about being out of the house that can lead to more focus - even for me, I sometimes have a hard time getting to things and taking it out of the house really helps.  For some people studying in their room also helps, but for me I just feel pent up.

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