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<blockquote data-quote="Signorina" data-source="post: 525259"><p>You just described my son to a T. He attended a private, nurturing parochial K-8 school where he made lifelong friends (well, not lifelong anymore) and we became close to the families of those friends. He lived a charmed life - sure he would have preferred more material goods -like a sports car, vacations to Aspen etc (we live in an affluent area)-but he didn't want for anything. He had dreamed of becoming a dentist and we even had a a close friend who was willing to employ him in his dental practice over the summers as a part time job. He changed his goal to science his senior year - after shadowing our dentist friend on a few occasions and realizing he preferred labs to patients. His last 3 HS semesters he had a 4.0 GPA and he graduated with honors. He entered college with a Biochemistry major and plans to do a PharmaD to MD in medical chemistry and his dream was to develop medical treatment protocols as a chemist working with physicians. (Ironic, isn't it?) Let me be clear- this was NEVER I dream I had for him, (I am a liberal arts person), this was what HE wanted for himself. He knew he needed to graduate uni with a 3.6 to make that type of grad school a reality. We even cautioned him about making sure his goals were realistic but supported him 100%. We suggested a state school because he was planning on tons of grad school and wanted to make the money stretch as far as possible. He now holds that against us, because according to him we forced him to go to a school he hated. (he picked his school, he had other choices) Never mind the fact that he could have chosen to transfer and he HAS chosen to go back to that town despite being no longer enrolled. He has fallen so far...and blames us for all of it and I JUST DON'T GET IT!</p><p></p><p>First semester a 2.2, second semester a 2.0,. 3rd semester 0.41</p><p></p><p>Feeling your pain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Signorina, post: 525259"] You just described my son to a T. He attended a private, nurturing parochial K-8 school where he made lifelong friends (well, not lifelong anymore) and we became close to the families of those friends. He lived a charmed life - sure he would have preferred more material goods -like a sports car, vacations to Aspen etc (we live in an affluent area)-but he didn't want for anything. He had dreamed of becoming a dentist and we even had a a close friend who was willing to employ him in his dental practice over the summers as a part time job. He changed his goal to science his senior year - after shadowing our dentist friend on a few occasions and realizing he preferred labs to patients. His last 3 HS semesters he had a 4.0 GPA and he graduated with honors. He entered college with a Biochemistry major and plans to do a PharmaD to MD in medical chemistry and his dream was to develop medical treatment protocols as a chemist working with physicians. (Ironic, isn't it?) Let me be clear- this was NEVER I dream I had for him, (I am a liberal arts person), this was what HE wanted for himself. He knew he needed to graduate uni with a 3.6 to make that type of grad school a reality. We even cautioned him about making sure his goals were realistic but supported him 100%. We suggested a state school because he was planning on tons of grad school and wanted to make the money stretch as far as possible. He now holds that against us, because according to him we forced him to go to a school he hated. (he picked his school, he had other choices) Never mind the fact that he could have chosen to transfer and he HAS chosen to go back to that town despite being no longer enrolled. He has fallen so far...and blames us for all of it and I JUST DON'T GET IT! First semester a 2.2, second semester a 2.0,. 3rd semester 0.41 Feeling your pain. [/QUOTE]
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