I had a classmate who got hit with this issue from the opposite direction. In our first semester CS course, 70% of our grade was based on our documentation. My classmate wrote beautiful, comprehensive documentation of the solution program to each solution set. They also didn't write a single line of code the entire semester, passing the class entirely on the strength of how they documented software that wouldn't even compile.
By the time that they reached the more advanced courses, where producing a working program was a requirement, they were so far behind that continuing in the program was hopeless (e.g. being asked to write a database when they'd never even attempted "Hello, World").
If the department counsellors had been on the ball, my classmate would have made an amazing technical writer, but I believe they wound up switching to electrical engineering.
By the time that they reached the more advanced courses, where producing a working program was a requirement, they were so far behind that continuing in the program was hopeless (e.g. being asked to write a database when they'd never even attempted "Hello, World").
If the department counsellors had been on the ball, my classmate would have made an amazing technical writer, but I believe they wound up switching to electrical engineering.