<p>did the call cost anything? Where do you find the number?</p>
<p>If you have your child’s AP Student Pack, the phone number is on page 2 (right inside of the cover).
You will need your child’s AP number (on the front of the pack), birth date and a credit card number. I called this AM (D wanted me to) and got her scores. If your child took multiple exams they will give them all on the same call.</p>
<p>And if you don’t have the exam pack, the phone number is on the College Board website, under information for students, click on AP tests, then on exam grades. I think you can use your child’s SS number instead of the AP number. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>But it does cost $8.</p>
<p>Still no word on housing solution. D2 leaves for school in 29 days! H played phone tag with school and coaches yesterday. Everyone says not to worry. :rolleyes: Yes, the good part of this is we are so VERY grateful the fire didn’t occur while kids were back at school!</p>
<p>Well I’ve come to this thread to calm down while I wait for the lovely folks at Dell to get me off hold. D’s new laptop arrived and it won’t boot all the way through Vista so I’m on hold while she’s off at her flute lesson. I’m sooooo annoyed. Shouldn’t have to go through this for a brand new very expensive laptop. Need one of those nonvirtual margaritas :)</p>
<p>The reason for the spreadsheet is that we need to divide things up by where they get purchased. Given my car is not too large, we want to cart as little as possible and buy as much as possible in Richmond or have it sent there directly if purchased online. So just having to keep track of that stuff makes the spreadsheet helpful.</p>
<p>D isn’t concerned about the AP scores. She said that none of them will make a difference in the courses she signs up for and last year we paid the $8 and then the printed scores came pretty quickly after we paid. I’m guessing we should have them by the middle of July at the latest.</p>
<p>Good to hear about the language tables and other ideas for her keeping up her language skills. She couldn’t take French senior year because of conflict with her schedule and now not being able to take it for another year could really leave her in the hole.</p>
<p>The damaged dorm sounds awful. I know Richmond over admitted a little but they said there would be room for everyone. But if something were damaged that would just make things even worse.</p>
<p>Update…laptop functioning…solution was to remove battery (???) and reboot. Really?</p>
<p>Just checking in, this is D’s 3rd day of college life. She’s enjoying it but boy, wish we would have known there was a link on her college’s website of the books she needed. She thought (being a first time in college child) that she would find out Monday at the first day of class, what books to bring. After classes she called me Monday and I looked at the college bookstore online and they wanted $90 and $70 (for USED) for the 2 classes she’s taking this summer. I found them slightly cheaper elsewhere, HOPEFULLY they ship!!</p>
<p><em>GULP</em> Now that I have her Fall schedule, we can look for a low-cost books so we’re not rushing around at the last minute (like we are now).</p>
<p>I remember the agony when, as an impoverished law student, I bought the most expensive set of books I’d ever purchased in my life, highlighted the first assigned chapter, then the prof said we weren’t going to use the books afer all.</p>
<p>One idea is to purchase the Barnes and Noble card ($27) and you do get a discount on the books. I’ve done that for the past 3 years and it usually easily pays for itself through just one semester. S’s load is book heavy and I usually spend about $300 plus per semester on his books. Now I’ll get to use it for D as well so I should get my money back in no time. I do look at the cost differences between Barnes and Noble and Amazon for every book. Takes some time but I do save money by doing this. The bookstore prices I think are always higher.</p>
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<p>Maybe your daughter can look into French classes through Alliance Francaise. My daughter also had trouble scheduling French classes each semester. She found an Alliance Francaise location near campus with classes at her level and at a time that worked for her. Loved the stress free classes - no grades :). She was already fairly proficient in reading/writing French, but less comfortable with the speaking/listening. She found the Alliance Francaise classes to be just what she was looking for, and after the first semester continued on. She has since done her study abroad.</p>
<p>sharon, glad to hear that your laptop fix worked. I waited for the free windows 7 upgrade to be available before pulling the trigger so S doesn’t have his laptop yet (due on the 14th). I won’t be surprised at glitches, including possible shipping delays. It just seems to come with the territory. I read the computer chat forums, which reinforces the fragility of these machines. I currently do all of the family trouble-shooting, but am trying to prepare S that he will have to take on that role for his laptop. Some problem is likely–sooner or later, regardless of the manufacturer. </p>
<p>Half the time, the fix seems to just be serindipity. I recently had an eSATA drive not working on my desktop. Dell did the remote thing updating drivers et al (which I had already done so knew wasn’t the problem), then came to the house and replaced my motherboard, and still no joy. They thought it must be my eSATA cable or external hard drive. I took the drive to BestBuy, plugged it in with my cable to a computer on the floor with eSATA and it was fine, so I figured I would be back to the drawing board with Dell. However, I brought the drive home, plugged it in and voila, it worked at home too, despite the technician’s hours of failed effort the day before. Who knows? H has the similar trial and error experiences with his IT at work (and they use HP).</p>
<p>Currently, my home phone can make outgoing calls but not receive calls. Comcast has been struggling with the problem for two days. No fix yet. It seems like we have some technology challenge or another in this house every week.</p>
<p>TheAnalyst, both my H and I have spent our lives doing work in and around the computer field. I’ve also managed tech support folks when they used to actually work in the US. I’ve unfortunately heard it all. (And D’s laptop order was put in the day before the microsoft we won’t charge u for upgrade offer was announced but I’m still thinking we might be able to get it cause it didn’t ship until after the announcement). I too am trying to prepare her to take over the troubleshooting but given what a poor job I’ve done with DS I figure it’s going to fail.</p>
<p>I really despise customer support people who assume we’re all idiots and I particularly despise those who have you uninstall and reinstall things which leaves you with a weeks worth of work to get your computer back to where it was before it broke. Sigh.</p>
<p>DD is required to complete her language requirement for Richmond and she wants to do it with French so there’s no getting around it, she’s going to have to take a class. I’m thinking a study abroad over the summer with intensive French might suit her really well.</p>
<p>sharon, our older son had good experiences with summer language immersion courses, including one after his freshman year to cement his fluency in his high school language. It made a lasting difference in his confidence as a speaker and general fluency. I agree that sounds like a wonderful option for your daughter. </p>
<p>I’m sure she is going to love Richmond. It is such a beautiful campus.</p>
<p>All this talk about Dell and having to uninstall and reinstall brought back plenty of old nightmares. I used to dread losing my work – especially writing - and I wasn’t very good at backing things up. I’ve had Macs now for about five years and havent ever lost a document, even when we’ve had issues (few and far between).</p>
<p>Son’s HP came today. Works great, he loves it (he better!) It is monstrous! Luckily he will be treating it like a desktop at school. It does not seem particularly portable! </p>
<p>Now I am hassling with health insurance issues and inoculation records (he is missing some I could just swear he had, including MMR) We are now waiting for a titer report.</p>
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<p>This is next on my list but I am waiting for the school to send the health forms (which they do not have available to download), so that I can get D to in for an exam and shots. Hopefully the forms come in soon, although she doesn’t have to be at school until Aug 30.</p>
<p>On the other hand, Barbie and Ken have now left the building. D got on a thing about cleaning out her room and some toys in the basement and lots of stuff is getting picked up today 
This is in addition to 4 garbage bags. And I didn’t even think her room looked too bad before!</p>
<p>I tried really hard to make sure D’s laptop was light enough so that she would be able to haul it around with her and it’s definitely light. Continuing the saga, installed the Microsoft Ultimate package for her but I know it’s going to need a lot of updating. Hope we can get the laptop stabilized cause otherwise we’re starting with a reinstall. I’d rather do it now before she has anything useful on it.</p>
<p>We moved to OH around 15 years ago and at that time I gave all the innoculation records to the pediatrician. When we changed pediatricians about 5 years ago, I provided all the innoculation records to the new pediatrician. So basically they have now made official my unofficial records plus any new shots which D has had. She only needed a tetanus booster which she got in May and a TB test which she required for her work at the zoo so we’d already done that one in April. Managed to get all those records off to Richmond in June. </p>
<p>No news on the room cleaning front but DS is coming home from Cleveland for a few days this weekend and he knows he’s required to purge his room of all stuff which he’s no longer using/wearing/or wants. And he needs to pack up anything he wants moved into his apartment (even if it’s only getting moved after he has more furniture or winter comes whichever is first — and yes it’s a race).</p>
<p>Son is recovering from the removal of wisdom teeth. Does not appear to be in too much pain after 24 hours. Sat up and watched TV and a movie with me last night. </p>
<p>Paid the $8 for his AP scores, because, as he put it, he could not wait for them to come in the mail. Did incredibly well, so well that he will get out of freshman composition and can apply scores from both economics exam and government and comparative government exams to majors. Still in shock that he rocked the physics AP, but cannot apply it to anything he plans to study. Oh well. He always can say that he rocked the test, and maybe that’s more important than any credit he could have gotten.</p>
<p>JerseyShoreMom, there are several used book sites out there, including Amazon and Ecampus. One of the ladies who works with me knows of another. I’ll have to ask her what she uses, as she gets great deals.</p>
<p>Hi Everyone - I haven’t posted here in a while - and it took me a while to catch up with everyone. D’s graduation was a week ago and she was so happy that there was not a chance I could cry. A downpour during the processional but sunny after 15 minutes! S did not make it home from China - he was ill and we were afraid he wouldn’t be allowed back in to finish his studies. Otherwise a lovely night.
D’s HS internship turned into a part-time paying job. She has another retail job so she should be able to save a bit this summer. Otherwise she’s resting, reading and hanging out with friends. (No interest in getting her AP scores - no matter what, she can’t use the credit. Fine with me!) S’s boss from his old summer job called looking for help - too bad he is away. He made $6K last summer!!</p>
<p>Re: Wisdom Teeth. Son had those out during Spring Break (fun, fun), but it was either that or during lacrosse season as they were crowding his teeth and since he had had braces we didn’t want to go back to that particular drawing board. Did exceptionally well throughout recovery although we heard about several people who had experienced “dry socket.” Not sure what that is exactly, but apparently not fun in the least.</p>
<p>All immunizations were complete (and we had a similar non-official turned official records). Last physical I had them print them all off and for the last year (until this last meningitis booster) I’ve only ever had to use copies of that.</p>
<p>I finally finished editing the highlight film for the lacrosse team, which I had shown at the banquet in semi-complete form. It was actually fun to go back to it over the last few days and it has just about every genre of music there is except show tunes!! Putting it up on MobileMe for people to download later this afternoon. Better late than never!</p>
<p>Turning to the room situation: I actually packed up small rubbermaid boxes of barbies (daughters’ not son’s), playmobile and some transformers (not to mention the oodles of legos) for either the grandkids one day or prosperity. Not sure what. But other than that, all of that stuff left the building a long time ago. I contacted our community service director at school and she is now putting together a book drive for Africa where we can donate our old text books that our buy back program won’t buy. Clothes and the rest are still being purged. Seems to me that T-shirts hold an unusual degree of sentimental value, although some are truly dubious in nature. I might have to wait until S leaves for school to go through his closet. <sigh></sigh></p>
<p>Husband is suggesting I get a “real” job this fall. Haven’t worked for a W-2 in my field for some time although I would suggest that I’ve done plenty of it through volunteering and the rest. Not sure how that all translates to a resume when there are a gazillion other people looking for work out there who have actually been on corporate payrolls. It all seems too overwhelming, but at the same time I can see his point when we’re looking at tuition bills upwards of 80K this next year! <gulp!></gulp!></p>