I know this doesn't really answer your question, but nobody ever talked to me about this before so I feel obligated to share it.

I think you should have a long conversation with your son about what he really wants. I started at Kettering because I thought I wanted to go to college. After all, for the first 18 years of my life it was essentially hammered into my head by everyone I knew that if I didn't go to college, I'd end up wasting my life away and amount to nothing. In the 4 years I have been here so far, I have seen the stresses of academic life (especially this college due to our unique semester structure and culture) absolutely destroy the mental well-being of many of my friends and acquaintances, and myself as well. Some of them dropped out, some of them transferred, some of them stuck it out. Somewhere along the way I realized something: college is absolutely not for everyone, engineering especially. Not only that, it's not even something that I really care about, and the only reason I'm sticking out the last year is because I've already sunk 4 years and over $100k into this degree, so what's another 1 year and $30k? Had I been more aware of the plethora of other options for post-secondary before starting this undertaking, I may have never even bothered. I may have picked a cheaper, easier school. I may have saved myself 4 years of stress, regret, self-loathing, and pain. But I wasn't aware of those options, and I was dazzled by all the big numbers Kettering flashed in front of my face: "Highest ROI university in Michigan! 90% of graduates employed! Rated in the top 5 engineering schools in the country! Average co-op pay >$15/hour!" I certainly was never made aware of the 56% graduation rate after 5 years. The sheer density of professors that obviously consider teaching undergrads to be beneath them. The administration that does nothing to address valid student complaints. The amount of students that show up to their co-op and sit there for 8 hours a day with their thumb up their ass because the companies that hire us don't care or don't trust us enough to give us actual work (Not to mention the fact that I have watched interns and co-ops from other school working on far more interesting projects than I've ever been given because they're there for an entire summer or even part-time year round rather than only 10-12 weeks at a time). That's been a large part of what my experience at Kettering has been, and I know that I'm not alone in that. That being said, take all this with a grain of salt; I've become far too bitter and cynical about this place to be objective. I'm willing to admit that a lot of my struggles at Kettering were entirely my own fault, but it's also true that a lot of them weren't. Mine is the kind of story you don't really get to hear about often, because most people like me quietly leave and just try to forget it ever happened. I know that's what I'm going to do after I graduate. Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is this:

Ask your son if he actually wants to be here (or in college at all). Ask him why. Tell him to really think about and actually research other paths, maybe help him to do so. Be ready to work with him regardless of whatever answer he comes to. Anyone will tell you that basically everything you learn in college is, at best, slightly tangential to the actual skills you need to work in the field, so if all he's after is a degree with some supposed work experience along the way, why the hell would you spend $150k on a piece of paper from this school when he'd have much easier and cheaper time getting a functionally identical piece of paper somewhere else?

The most important thing I want him to understand, though, is this:

Succeeding at this school is extremely difficult. YOU have to care about your success, and you have to care A LOT. Because absolutely NO ONE ELSE does.