<p>Happy to hear that, garland! Good luck!</p>
<p>Fantastic news! Would love to hear the whole story when all is said and done.</p>
<p>Wonderful news! Best wishes for all good things in the new year and new life!</p>
<p>Congrats -Keeping fingers crossed for you. S2 finally followed through and completed his last year. We have had many false starts and still waiting for S3 to follow through and actually go back. Hope yours does better for his return. It does just seem to take some longer than others to figure it out.</p>
<p>Thatās great Garland! I remember how frustrated you were when he dropped out. There are many paths to take in life, and most of them are not straight!</p>
<p>Thanks, everyoneāIāll write more when all the pieces are in place, but thereās a lot of logistics up in the air right now.</p>
<p>However, whatās certain is that Garlandson is excited about going back and in a mindset which gives me confidence that the way things went six years ago will not repeat. As some of you have said, it takes some a little longer.</p>
<p>Mazel Tov!</p>
<p>garlandā¦exciting newsā¦happy for youā¦I know it is a long time coming, but it seems things are falling into place finally. Yippee!</p>
<p>How exciting! Iām happy for you and him, and no this must give you a sigh of relief. Looking forward to hearing all about it!</p>
<p>Better now than never, Congratsā¦ :)</p>
<p>Like, like, like.
Great news.</p>
<p>Great to hear! My husband dropped out of college as a SENIOR, wandered around the country for a few years, got some experience as a carpenter and private school teacher, then went back at the age of 28 to get his BS and MS in engineering. Everything turned out well for him!</p>
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<p>Great to hear. Some kids just take longer than others, but itās nice that heās now in the right mindset to do ths.</p>
<p>Terrific news for the New Year. (This made me realize that Iāve been hanging around here for more than ten years. I will not even consider how many hours that might be. :rolleyes:)</p>
<p>^Um, yeahā¦:)</p>
<p>New year, new start!!! Congrats to your son.</p>
<p>Hooray!</p>
<p>I remember the whole tale, and he sounds like a fascinating young man.</p>
<p>As another long-time member, this board feels to me like the internet version of sitting on a bench together while watching our kids on the playground, or hanging out, waiting for the bell to ring, so we can drive them off to their other activities. Weāve been together for years on end, getting to know each other and sharing our stories.</p>
<p>I guess I missed the earlier part of this story, but good luck to Garlandson!</p>
<p>One of mine dropped out just 2 classes short of a degree. Sad but their life. I am happy that your son has decided to return.</p>
<p>Update hereāThings are moving along well, so I figured Iād add some information. Some posters knew more about this than others, I gather from posts here. I appreciated all the well-wishing postedāthanks!</p>
<p>The story:</p>
<p>S had dropped it in his senior year from Columbiaāfor personal reasons, wonāt go into that. He had mostly done very well, until he didnāt. It was in the beginning going to be a one semester leave, but he just never could make himself go back, and after a couple years the assumption was he couldnāt.</p>
<p>Finally this year, he started to really have a hankering to go back to college and finish his degree. The plan at first was to look into the good state school near us. But he, and us, started to wonder if CU was still possible. He wrote to advising, and the people there were enormously helpful. It turned out there was a route for students whoād been away long to reapplyāno guarantee.</p>
<p>So he applied to both schools, the local and Columbia. Was admitted very quickly to the local, and happy about thatāit meant he was going back to school. He knew heād have to do at least a year there as a transfer, but it was inexpensive so he figured he could handle that.</p>
<p>Two days before Christmas he got the news heād been accepted back to Columbia (have to say, he showed me the app letter he had to write, and theyād have been nuts not to take him back.) Right after winter break he had a phone advising appointment with the advisor whoād shepherded the application through. Sheās been enormously helpful and theyāve met since and sheās totally rooting for him. He thinks the world of her (btw, Iād been a little unhappy about what I saw as a lack of advising in his earlier stintābut I need to backtrack and say that it was there all the time; just required him to show up and use it.)</p>
<p>Filled out the FA stuff (they insisted on our info even though heās 28! but their money, their rules). been on tenterhooks but got the package yesterday and better than expected.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, heās signed up for 20 credits! 
and commuting by train and subway three hours a day, so heās gonna be a pretty busy young manābut we expect to attend a graduation in May.</p>
<p>So, yay!</p>
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