Well, on the bright side, my son was able to find a way to graduate early from college.
My son entered college with 30 accepted AP credits, meaning technically, if not practically, he was a sophomore the day he was admitted.
Unfortunately, because of the arrangement of prerequisites and required courses for his major, he was going to be forced to stay four years. This had unfortunate economic consequences meaning a higher debt load.
As an outgrowth of this crisis though, he was able to wriggle out the opportunity from the department to take that last required course concomitantly with the prerequisite as independent study, and fill his schedule with some graduate courses.
It means he gets out six months earlier with his degree.
Moreover, if he keeps his GPA up where it's been through all of this, he gets a free year for a 30 credit masters, so he can stay around the campus with his girlfriend.
I don't think this would have happened were it not for this tragedy; a small consolation, but personally, a consolation nonetheless. This of course, doesn't negate the tragedy, but for him, some little good comes out of it.
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Congrats to him!
He sounds really intelligent.
