<p>Pugmadkate, Do you mean for scholarships and such? I am worried for many that merit money is going to dry up.</p>
<p>In my DD AP Lit class, they are going to work on college essays after the AP test. Ungraded but getting a start. Seems like a good way to spend the month to me.</p>
<p>FindAPlace, Mudd was S1âs #2 school last year and was very sad to turn it down. Feel free to PM me â he absolutely loved the place.</p>
<p>New pearls of wisdom from Dâs guidance counselor. Apparently to get the âmost rigorousâ box checked off, you need to take APs for every one of your 5 academic classes each year including freshman year.</p>
<p>I donât think Dâs school allows that, nor are there enough AP classes offered for that to even be possible for 4 years.</p>
<p>I guess I have to email her again for clarification. I really do not see why I have to be in the middle of this, but D canât seem to get a straight answer out of her.</p>
<p>That doesnât seem right! Gosh, think how many AP classes would have to be offered!!</p>
<p>I donât think there are enough in existance to cover all academic subjects for 4 years!! Sounds like the guidance counselor may be mistaken (has to be)</p>
<p>Thanks for the kind thoughts for my community. They have grief counselors at City Hall today. The sergeant had been on the force for 18 years, had received the Medal or Valor for one heroic deed and had been working juvenile diversion. He laves behind a wife and three kids. So sad. Whatâs inspiring about the police and fire forces is when one of their own goes down from a small community, officers from other communities will âman the cityâ so that those who knew the fallen officer can attend the funeral.</p>
<p>SoCal has come a long way in reducing pollution and can now do more. Cheers went up last week when President Obama said that states could issue tougher pollution regulations if the situation and the citizenry called for it. Itâs why our gas is so expensive but itâs worth it.</p>
<p>Claremont is not Riverside, but itâs not the West LA area either. If a student has asthma or other related respiratory problems, Iâd call the schools to ask. For most students, it should be fine. It may even be better than San Pedro, next to the Port of Los Angeles, which suffers from release of particulate matter associated with all the big rigs coming to and from the area. Efforts are being made to tamp this down as well but, of course, the trucking firms are resisting.</p>
<p>Parallel parking is absolutely on the driving test here in CA. My S reported that a friend recently took his driving test from the local DMV and, early on in the test, was instructed to turn right and drive down a street, where the sign was clearly marked that this was not allowed. He didnât do it. He got the impression the tester did this on purpose. My S goes for his behind the wheel test on Feb. 18.</p>
<p>ag54 â Thatâs great news about your Sâs interview! Hopefully your wait for results wonât be too long. </p>
<p>nunya â I know what you mean about the walls. And it really bothers me to be in the school and not be able to see down the hall, to see who is coming, or where I am, etc. And itâs nothing but brick walls and brown doors, brick walls and brown doors⊠unending. Itâs like a bad movie. Every time I go to parent-teacher conferences I have to ask S for details instructions how to get from the gyms to the library.</p>
<p>LIMOM â good luck to your D on the driving test. I still try to avoid parallel parking whenever possible!</p>
<p>Queenâs Mom - it sounds like her GC doesnât understand. You canât take 4 years of AP English if only one is offered. Same with pretty much every other subject, right? So it sounds like she expects the impossible! I would definitely try to go over that with her.</p>
<p>ag54, Merit money is especially on my mind but itâs sad to read about the cuts in professors, classes and the like.</p>
<p>For us, Iâm trying to stay calm but itâs hard to not feel stressed when I think of less merit money meeting my spouse retiring from active duty while his industry is in crisis (heâs a pilot.) Then there is the huge hit our own modest savings took. </p>
<p>Iâm just adjusting to the new reality. I liked the old reality a lot better. But I know how lucky we are. I just need to focus on that and remind myself it will work out.</p>
<p>Yes, the GC does not get it, which makes me wonderâŠhas she ever checked off âmost rigorousâ for anyone? I think she had to mean 5 APs over the course of 4 years, but that is probably too lowâŠand where do Honors come in? I am so confused.</p>
<p>This sounds really strange Queenâs Mom.
I think she means an AP course in every one of core subjects - so Math, English, Science, Social Studies but what the 5th should be? Unless you double on them??? Or would it be a Foreign Language?</p>
<p>Well according to the college board, there are 34 AP areas:</p>
<p>[AP</a> Courses - Advanced Placement Course Descriptions](<a href=âCollege Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Toolsâ>AP Courses and Exams â AP Students | College Board)</p>
<p>Assuming the GC was serious that would mean 20 APs in 4 years - so it is doableâŠ</p>
<p>Of course that includes APs in multiple languages - there are 7 languages for 10 of the tests. Given that is a little unreasonable to expect, letâs say 1 language and 2 APs in that area. So that means 18 APs out of the 24 that are offered⊠still doableâŠ</p>
<p>On the flip side, there are only 2 English languages APs - and in my DD school you have to take 4 years of English to graduate - so that means you would have to take 2 years of non-AP classes⊠Hmmm starting to have some issues hereâŠ</p>
<p>Also only 3 Math APs (Calc AB, BC, Stats) - again you will have to take something else freshman year. More issuesâŠ</p>
<p>Bottom line, if she really means 5 academic classes all four years, with all of them being AP, I donât see any way to build that schedule. Lets assume the 5 are English, Math, Science, Social Studies and Foreign Language.</p>
<p>Science (Bio, Chem, Physics, and Environmental) and Social Studies (Poli sci, World History, US History, Econ) are the only one where 4 straight AP tests could be taken . Math only has 3, English 2, Foreign Language 2 unless you switch languages.</p>
<p>Something has to be getting lost in the translation.</p>
<p>does she mean honors or AP each year QM? Were you the one with the GC problems before? My sympathies!</p>
<p>I want D to go ask our college counselor what it takes to get most rigorous at our school. She doesnât want to because she knows (and I agree) that she will have it. But I find out now that the reason she met with him last week is not that she has questions, but that she wants to develop a relationship with him and get assigned to him when they parcel out the grade, there are also two teachers who assist in the college counseling, one I have less than high regard for, the other is ok but I donât share his philosophyâŠ</p>
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<p>The reason D asked is because she does not want to take AP Eng next year. I donât really care, but I wanted to know because if she does not take it, it only gives her 5 APs by graduation and I wanted to know if thatâs enough for âmost rigorousâ or where that would put her.</p>
<p>Now Iâm just completely confused.</p>
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<p>We will only be registering S for HS courses next month but I already want GC to answer that question for me when we meet. Imagine the looks I will get ;)</p>
<p>Sorry about the previous post. I clicked on submit by mistake.
What I wanted to say I did not know so many APs were available (until I started reading CC)
My D took five APs ( 2 Latin,1 Spanish, Cal and chem) and it was a rigorous schedule.
Itâs almost impossible for kids at my kidsâ school to take more than six APs, yet they get into very good colleges.</p>
<p>Queenâs momâ5 APs is a pretty good number. AP English is another ball game from honors or other designated English, requiring much more work and superior writing and analyzing skills, as I recall from when my first 2 took it. Kids 3 and 4 are much more math/science oriented so concentrated on those areas as well as history & music.</p>
<p>If your Dâs passions lie elsewhere I wouldnât push AP English. And as for the âmost rigorousâ designation, I say ârigorous, shmigorousâ!</p>
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