Though I don't know either way in this specific case, this is a very common thing with postsecondary education.

Lots of kids are getting too used to highly curated, manually disciplined classroom settings. They are used to the teacher reminding them that they haven't turned in that assignment. The reason they don't skip is because the school will call their parents. They aren't allowed anything other than limited access to technology, because it's "distracting".

When they get to college, they just aren't ready for independence. Without the nannie-teachers and the parents, they don't have a support system that can point them in the right direction. Aspergers would have no doubt exacerbated the situation, but I am not on the spectrum and have very similar addictive tendencies that caused me to nearly fail my course as well.