<p>This is a thread for my brother, ive told him about this site but he seems not to care enough to come on.</p>
<p>He did ok in HS, he had a 83 average and played a few sports and had a few clubs and stuff.</p>
<p>He then went off to college, he chose Cuny New York City College of Technology, well he didn't choose it, thats as good of a school that he could have been accepted to. During the admissions process he didnt care much and would get mad at me when I would question him. I was very active in my college admission process, but he could seem to care less. He would just play world of warcraft all day.</p>
<p>So he goes off to Cuny City Tech and hates it, he says the level of education is lower than that of HS and they put him in all remedial courses, but he struggled in them. It was very weird, he was still at home and I was away so I possibly don't know the full story. But he went to school 2 days a week from 8am-6pm and then worked the rest of the week. so he didn't have much time for school work.</p>
<p>Well tpo fast forward a bit he finished that semester with mostly C's. He goes into the next semester and half way through it he said he just couldn't take it anymore and dropped out, he didnt resign or take incompletes, he just left and then got all F's.</p>
<p>He then told everybody that he would be transferring to Manhattan college, but they told him he needed to push up his SAT he had a 1090 and needed around a 1300, so he set off to study and says he studied alot, but got his may sat scores yesterday and got a 910 on it.</p>
<p>so he didint get the 1300 and is now screwed, cant go back to the old school or any other as he has 5 F's.</p>
<p>This is bad I know, but any advice would please help.</p>
<p>first off, the motivation needs to come from him, not you. It's great you're on the forum trying to get help, you're obviously caring and concerned. But the day he is posting asking what to do is the day he's ready to take the next steps with his life. You know the old parable "you can lead a horse to water ..." so no sense going further into that. But until he's leading the charge, don't be too disappointed if the advice you give him isn't warmly received.</p>
<p>The fact that he was in remedial classes and struggles with them should tell you something about his current academic level. Has he ever been evaluated for learning disabilities? The problem at many HS's is they engage in "social promotion"; as long as a kid doesn't cause problems they keep passing them to keep him up with his grade level, even if he isn't performing the work. And so its possible for someone with learning disabilities to get a HS diploma without anyone ever caring they were struggling and taking the time to try to find out why.</p>
<p>At this point my suggestion is for him to consider a community college. Classes tend to be smaller, and if he succeeds there then he will be a good candidate to go on for a 4-year degree. Not too many 4-year schools are going to be willing to consider someone with his record, but CC's take all comers. And at a CC he has a chance to go to the counseling center and be evaluated to see if he has learning problems, as well as receive other counseling that can help him academically.</p>
<p>well he did have a minor learning disability, he was not a special education student, but did have to take resource room and a extra tutoring class. He blamed it on the way the school thought the material, such as in math you aren't allowed to work out a problem on paper they just give ya the question and a box to put the answer in and if ya write outside the .5" X.5" box you get points deducted. Also when he took the cuny placement test it was the same. I dont know if this is an excuse, but it would mess me up. Ya know I have a severe learning disability but im a junior engineering student who went to the same hs.</p>
<p>Should I look into Community colleges for him, or should I just let him be. Like i said when I was in HS and well even today I love the college admission process.</p>
<p>He is interested in civil Engineering or Physics, thats what he says, so what would be a good community college in our area, NYC that has such disciplines.</p>
<p>Community college seems to be the only way to go for him. And I agree with the above poster: you shouldn't be doing everything for him. If he doesn't care, he should just get out in the real world and work. Maybe he'll be happy with that or maybe that will motivate him to go back to school and try.</p>
<p>The reason I push is we are pretty poor and there is no time to find what you really want to do, ya need to do it now. he seems not to understand this.</p>
<p>just me alone when i graduate from college will have to fully support 4 people. if he doesn't help Im screwed and they are to.</p>
<p>Sounds like a bad situation .. but hey, college isn't for everyone. Try a CC, if that doesn't work out, he can always just go find a job--that might be more practical in order to support four people.</p>