In hindsight, when DD didn’t score high enough on AP exam, I maybe should have had her take the CLEP test for chemistry while the material was still fresh with her. She did take freshman chemistry, got a B, but she said it was a lot of memorizing exceptions to the rules, which went on and on. So for a civil eng that doesn’t really need to use the chemistry…
DD also has completed her sophomore year in college at a large flagship school.
It is great when the student does communicate issues - some are non-academic but could interfere with academics, and nice to be a sounding board and also provide some guidance.
If your S/D realize you have their best interests at heart, and you are in their corner…but also keep them accountable. I have to sometimes tell my non-eng DD “grow some guts” when she has to face some issues head on and with adult maturity…keep the tears behind (H said “die before cry”) in the situation resolution.