<p>D1 and D2 just used their AP credits for Gen Eds. That has worked very well! In fact D2 entered as a Soph because of those AP credits…not that we want her to graduate early! Believe me…she needs to be there! It helps with better housing and early registration.</p>
<p>Yum! H is late at work…some reception thing so I am finishing my fresh basil due to cold weather and having caprese salad appies and a great glass of wine while I ice the knee. Sometimes I really enjoy the quiet house! Salut! :)</p>
<h1>theoryson, despite his math prowess also opted not to start with Calc 3. He started with an Analysis series that re-covers Calc I and II. Kept his AP credits as well.</h1>
<p>D also opted not to use AP credit for any math/science core courses. She’s in engineering and also pre-med so felt it best to get a solid foundation. Several of her suitemates used AP credit yet have no idea what D’s talking about when she mentions class topics. She was more than happy to use her “humanities” APs.</p>
<p>OH Simon’s Rock…I missed that somehow. Sorry Owlice. I looked at that program and I wished we lived back east so S could take advantage of it. Do most of the kids transfer out after grade 12?</p>
<p>theorymom - Simon’s Rock is a residential college and their students come from all over the world - you don’t have to live in the East for your student to attend.</p>
<p>LOL at the ‘babysitting as birth control’ posts! Congrats on the job! Have a safe trip, Owlice! Neat abt the phonecall, Modumm.</p>
<p>Son is here for long weekend! Yay! He looks relaxed, healthy and is talking in a calm, polite fashion that I’m sure he picked up down South (tho he was pretty polite to start). Wants to change his major! From big bucks major to ‘few job prospects w/that major’ but it’s something we can hopefully talk about for a bit.</p>
<p>Trying not to be naggy in anyway, but still peppered him w/questions galore. Seems happy and confident. 7 year old little sis stuck to him like a refrigerator magnet.</p>
<p>Said he felt like “Rip Van Winkle” returning to our northeast home. In the deep south, no such dramatic seasonal changes & was surprised by the leaves falling, etc.</p>
<p>A comment on sending apples – I’ve sent D apples (& caramel dipping sauce) for the past 2 years. Just last week I put 6 - 7 apples in one of those large rectangular disposable plastic storage containers, filled the spaces with paper towels, and then put that, the dipping sauce and few more goodies in a shipping box. D received all in perfect condition 2 days later.</p>
<p>Re: AP credit – it’s my understanding that at some schools you can’t take a class you’ve already had as an AP, if you did well on the AP exam. In other words, you can’t retake it for an easy “A.” And, trying to beat the system by not reporting your scores may not work since the school asks for the scores directly. Anyone else run into this?</p>
<p>CB - my S wanted to start over with Calc I, despite an AP score of 5, in order to have a solid base and an easier class for first semester. His advisor (a math prof) strongly recommended he go to Calc II, so he did. I don’t know his grade situation just now, but I know he expects at least a B.</p>
<p>Here is a situation that I wondered about: A friend of S’s was sure he would be struggling in Calc, so he took it over the summer at CC at home. His plan was to take it again in the fall at State U where he hoped to get a better grade. Is that allowed? Don’t you have to report CC grades?</p>
<p>Jolynne, what is your son’s new major proposal? Reading the thread for parents of college seniors you can see some really fascinating paths for kids with a wide variety of majors. (I happened to major in middle eastern studies but ended up in a career as a bond analyst.) We have advised our kids that an undergrad college degree today is the equivalent of having only a high school diploma in times of yore, so it doesn’t really matter what your undergrad major is in since you need to assume grad school in something anyway. Neither of our boys is a natural academic–i.e. they don’t love learning for its own sake–but both do assume they will go to grad school just because H and I did and we have told them it is just what you do. We expect to pay for their grad school if it isn’t otherwise funded.</p>
<p>Love the refrigerator magnet comment. Made me almost wish for a little one around the house. Our son is coming home this week-end, so I am in full cooking and cleaning mode today.</p>
<p>S2 only took one AP course and managed to score a 1 on that exam (which he strenuously objected to taking but was mandated to take by the school so he was determined to show the school the error of their ways–has a tendency to be strong willed). The older one took a bunch of AP courses but didn’t take any of the AP exams that I remember (wasn’t mandated by the school at that time, so for some reason kids didn’t do the exam, hence the policy change). Anyway, as a result no experience on what the rules would be for either.</p>
<p>TheAnalyst–he wants to switch from comp sci to history/classics. He also envisions doing some fieldwork in the archeology area. Going to throw out some ideas of jobs to try to connect the idea of major to work-life (I think this is practical). Like your idea of grad school as a baseline–I’ve often thought the same about college = HS these days. Will probably talk that up w/son this weekend. Don’t want to be naggy—want to have fun w/this precious time together, too. :-)</p>
<p>I told son (based on info on CC) he’d probably have to take yrs of Greek or Latin – seemed okay w/this, tho never liked his yrs of Spanish in HS!!!</p>
<p>Re: APs–son took several but didn’t take the exam in a few, because he knew he’d be retaking them in college so as to not miss out on the college-level instruction.</p>
<p>I bet that the college could answer the question re: the permissibility of taking something in CC or HS & getting grade then re-taking it at college.</p>
<p>Both D and S1 will be coming home this weekend. 7 yo has awakened at 5 the past two mornings - he is over the moon with excitement, and very ready to be a refrigerator magnet, or possibly super glue.</p>
<p>Jolynne, I’m wondering how you’d be feeling about this news if you were paying OOS tuition at UT…</p>
<p>Son should be home by around 4:30, weather and traffic permitting. Younger D (13) told him to make sure he’s the one who picks her up at cheer at 5:15. Older D (16) doesn’t care a bit that he’s coming home.</p>
<p>I had the oddest feeling last night. Yesterday, H got out a bunch of Halloween decorations and left the house in a huge mess (he can get out but somehow can’t put away.) I sort of had a feeling of “I should clean up because we’re having company for the weekend” but of course, he isn’t company, he’s our son…I did what I could but asked Husband if he could please pick up a bit more. Strange to think for a minute that the child who lived in the house for 18+ years becomes “company” after he’s been gone for under two months.</p>
<p>Hi Yalemom, yes I know that, but I looked at it when my S was much younger, while stilla HS student. I was not prepared at that time to send him that far from home. As a college, it is not what S would now prefer, but I thought it had a great program for pre-college (as well as college)
I thought I heard that many of the kids transfer out after grade 12. Wondered if that was true</p>
<p>I think it’s something innate that we do for people we want to keep coming back (or in the case of my MIL not give her ammunition). I will definitely make sure son’s room is extra cleaned up. Not sure about how far I’d get with the rest of the house. Too clean and he’d wonder if he is even home!</p>
<p>I remember when oldest D went to college (two younger were 3rd and 5th grade). It was a like a red-letter holiday whenever she walked in the door. They had games, movies and all kinds of things planned for her time at home. She was pretty good at appeasing them. The up side was they usually were getting ready for bed so that by 9 she could be on her way out to catch up with friends.</p>
<p>I think son’s experience with using AP credit or not using AP credit was dictated by his advisor. Only one kid in his entire class got an A on the midterm. However, when it came to his major he could have tested out of Cell Hell since he already took AP Bio in HS but knew he didn’t want to do that. (If you took AP in HS and got a 5 on the exam, you could take a competency exam to test out). He loved the class then, loves it even more now. Maybe he’ll get that class’s midterm exam back today. Who knows how he will do on that one because he thought it was harder than he expected. Definitely both math and science course are slight weeders for majors, so we’ll see how that all turns out. (I also don’t think it was his best to take either one of these exams from 7-9 or whatever it was).</p>
<p>If college = HS these days, then kids should plan to satisfy any foreign language reqs for grad schools. What is a typical foreign language requirement for middling grad schools?</p>