Hi, sorry to hear your powerless plight. I feel for you and your son. We have just had our daughter choosing a uni, cos thats what her friends are doing, and at 6th form with a deadline for uni applications she couldn't even decide which subject to do a degree in. When trying to help her work out what it was she wanted to do, we were accused of nagging etc etc. I know this sounds to you like well at least shes doing something, but it really was similar, they have no idea what they want to be, after all, they haven't really had to think about it before when they are generally happy go lucky kids. My son (16 nearly 17) enjoyed school, but not the academic stuff. He chose (out of the blue) to go to art college to do interactive media. He got in by taking his usb pen to the interview, with all the stuff, animations, designs, videos, pictures, he'd done in his spare time on myspace etc. He has nearly finished his 1st year, I've never seen him so focused, motivated and proud of himself, he was a kid who like your son is a lovely kid, and who people think are not trying hard enough or not ambitious enough, he was frequently told "come on, can do better" by teachers, and one even wrote on his report "I sometimes worry that education interferes with his wonderful enjoyment of life" We thought college was going to be a real bind for him, but because he's doing what he wants to it isnt.