<p>I went back and reviewed OP’s posts in this thread and was curious about the courses and the grades - could the OP state the courses taken and the grades for the course as that may help to identify the problem.</p>
<p>It may also be that exiting the honors program may be a benefit to your son. The honors classes at my son’s university are taken with non-honors students (for the most part) but have extra requirements for the course (usually an additional project or additional homework problems). My son had the opportunity to join the honors college in his first year because of his first-semester GPA but I looked at the benefits and the commitment and determined that it wouldn’t be worth it for him. A coworker with a son in a similar program did get into the Commonwealth College program at UMA and he told me that he was considering dropping out of it - not because of any grade issues but because the son didn’t see the benefits of the program relative to the commitment. His son has an internship at a prestigious company this summer and he just finished his first year.</p>
<p>Our son’s school had three weeders in the first year: calculus, physics and computing. The workload in the latter two was unreal. Calculus was only a problem if the student didn’t get it. Calculus was also a coreq for physics and learning both of them at the same time where one depends on the other can be quite a challenge. If the problems were mainly in calculus and physics, then the problems for the remaining three years may not be that bad. Physics may be slightly useful in a few other CS courses but it isn’t a major base course like discrete math. The usefulness of the physics course is that it teaches you to think and handle a lot of work. Calculus is required for other courses and any deficiencies there should be made up, perhaps with a summer course.</p>
<p>If the problems is in the Computing course, then he has to determine whether it is the ability to do the problems or if there isn’t enough time in his schedule to do them (perhaps affected by calculus and physics) and if he can fix those problems. Sometimes office hours, the tutoring center, working in a study group or other efficiency issues can fix the problems. He really does need to figure out the problems and find the solutions before the fall semester. The work and pace do not let up. The grading might but he wants to get his GPA up.</p>