<p>I just need to get some advice from a parent point of view.</p>
<p>When D was applying to colleges, she had excellent SAT and ACT scores, top 5% of her class. All this despite her EC's including a part-time job. She was accepted at almost all her schools, many with merit awards. She finally settled on a top tier school with an Honors Program. Due to AP credits, she entered the university 3 credits short of one full year under her belt. As a result, she will be graduating a year early and saving us a ton of money. She had no problem first semester with a full load of classes. She even tried science and econ to see if she had an interest. She found she was better suited for communications and media. She adjusted well, made many new friends and in fact, seemed very happy. Second semester, she was ok but did not do well on an elective, of all things. She complained of being tired. During the fall of her second year, she started experiencing extreme anxiety episodes. It was so bad that she actually missed classes for a several days during the peak of it. We are far away from her and I was ready to get on a plane to bring her home,. However, we found a therapist and a doctor who gave her meds to stabilize her. She seems ok now . We did full medical checkup, bloodwork, etc. Everything came back ok but I am not sure she has the 100% energy that she used to have.</p>
<p>Now she is applying for internships for the coming summer. Her current GPA is 2.8. She got a D on one of her major classes in the fall and a C in another. She is worried that with this GPA, she will not be able to get a decent internship. She is majoring in communications from a school that has a good reputation for this. She has done some part-time work in retail but she wants to start getting some meaningful experience in the hopes of getting a job at graduation and eventually go to graduate school. I see that she is also in the eyes of recruiters only a sophomore, so that may be another obstacle. I don't know what advice to give her other than to raise her GPA as much as she can by the end of the spring and next fall. However, for right now, when the resume hits the recruiters desk, it is a red flag. Should she leave it off? Should she explain that she was ill. This seems too personal to bring up in an interview and it might be a turn off. We see the same issue for her getting into graduate school. I can see this is really making her feel like she failed at her college career despite having all the promise due to something beyond her control.</p>