<p>Hey Findaplace Yes we were a little off topic. In our defence we did toss in comments related to letter jackets, Senior trips and Sober grad too and now I just have one thing to say, “Good Game Guys” ;)</p>
<p>Oh heavens I gave you a post ;)</p>
<p>Gosh History Mom - Looks like a little post padding to me</p>
<p>Actually more than just a little - lots of post padding</p>
<p>Not that I would know what post padding is…</p>
<p>but back to the subject at hand…</p>
<p>I like the idea of the regents test- essentially a real exit exam. CA has an exit exam - but it only tests math (through Algebra 1) and English (through 10th grade state standards). Seems very light weight to me…</p>
<p>I see those 09ers pulled ahead of us last night, even with Historymom adding a little to our post count - we’ll have to work on that today.</p>
<p>I agree with you, mathmom - Regents are a good way of ensuring at least minimum standards across the state within the main academic subjects. This year, my D will be taking her last one - US History. Since she’s taking APUSH and the SAT II in US History, she should be well-prepared by the time the Regents rolls around.</p>
<p>Now that I have an idea what the Regents exams are, we’d have no problem trading these out for the CASHEE (CA High School Exit Exams.) I don’t see that happening in real time, and I expect the educators in CA like the idea of creating their own exams so …</p>
<p>My S is so relieved that parental intervention was worth something to get him some test relief (shorter tests) for his final two on line tests in Linear Algebra. Now he can bore in again on the SAT prep, getting ready for the March test. His relief was visible. Now instead of being cranky, he’s back to his normal self, thank goodness.</p>
<p>The '09’ers filled their posts with drivel about the Oscars. Nary a word about college related topics. Perhaps I’ll report all the posts as spam and ask them to be removed and delivered to the Cafe so they don’t count. 
Now I, on the other hand, will discuss a college issue. Sometime soon.
Wait-I can discuss a college issue now. Do any of you know what it’s like to be doing this for 2 kids at the same time? Two very different kids with very different interests? Can anyone find me a couple of extra weeks to look at colleges?</p>
<p>Momof3sons</p>
<p>No. However, last week we were on a college visit and on our tour was a family with triplets. They seemed quite certain that they didn’t want to go to school together but were having to visit each other’s choices for logistic reasons.</p>
<p>momof3, historymom is one over in the '09 thread with twins, and I think there was one other. Maybe if they get a comfortable lead for a while she could lend you some advice. I can see doing some visits to “the other’s” schools for logistics, esp if both parents want to go also. But for many I hope it could be one child/one parent.</p>
<p>I did catch up in their thread and although there was some Oscar stuff I don’t think they padded it as much as they did last week. I am willing to let them have the lead for a while, this is their big time the next two months with acceptances and decisions. We can play that strategy for a while and draft them (when we pick up thier topics)</p>
<p>H and I have to finish that questionnaire tonight for the college mtg tomorrow</p>
<p>momof3sons–that’s because the 09ers all have their apps in and are just waiting for those acceptances, or they have already made their decisions. Anyway, they have time to discuss the Oscars now. Whereas we do not.</p>
<p>Our friends have twins and they ended up at the same school. Handy for dropping off, visiting, and so forth. </p>
<p>And I remember a set of triplets when I was in college. Incredible that they would all go to the same school. I never could tell them apart, and when they spoke to each other, they sort of mumbled so I couldn’t understand them either. It wasn’t another language, but it might as well have been.</p>
<p>Anyway, I bet their parents were glad they didn’t choose to go to 3 different schools!</p>
<p>D was on Naviance with a friend of hers (from another school) and they noticed that quite a few of the schools D was interested in have had no one apply recently. For example Georgia Tech had stats dating back to 2002 and 2004. Those were the only years anyone applied. Of course in college app time, that was centuries ago! None of those graphs mean anything now!</p>
<p>I finished reading the topic on connotations and have come up with a new draft of the four adjectives. here is the post again if any of you missed it a few pages back</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/36494-cc-connotations-most-important.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/36494-cc-connotations-most-important.html</a></p>
<p>I think my list (before conferring with H) is independent, tenacious (thanks this idea came from this thread), supportive, conscientious.</p>
<p>As long as my spell checking works I think I’ll be ok. I also saw several references to the A is for Admissions book which I haven’t read, but maybe I’ll glance through it at some point.</p>
<p>QM- we have similar problems with many schools with very small data sets. Good luck dealing with what you have. Are there any schools with open naviance systems with which you are familiar in your surrounding area?</p>
<p>I also have to compile my list of questions for tomorrow’s meeting.</p>
<p>Yes, we have two schools with similar demographics that I can look at. I will suggest that to D when she comes home.</p>
<p>My friend, the school board member, had her twin sons graduate from Emory. They did have some differences regarding school choice, just as they did when applying to graduate school. Presently, they are both attending Stanford’s grad school in biology.</p>
<p>My S told me on the way to school that the HS may offer a new course next year, psychology (not the AP version, as far as he knows.) When I asked him if he knew who’d be teaching the class, the name he mentioned turns out to be the teacher’s union head (Yale grad.) Now that might be a very interesting class, especially this days with budget cuts in the offing!</p>
<p>I wish our college counselor had sent home a sheet or something to describe our student. She did ask for a resume to be handed in this week, but I’m not at all sure that it says so much about our daughter.</p>
<p>Just got the “paper” SAT scores in the mail from the January administration. You* can now go online to your child’s collegeboard site and get a more detailed fact sheet about what kind of problems he/she got correct/incorrect. You can apparently also see the Essay he/she wrote.</p>
<p>*or your student ;)</p>
<p>When we got that sheet I noticed they didn’t send his scores to his safeties, as requested. :(</p>
<p>After the angst my S has gone through with his on line linear algebra class … just wow. Here’s some of what the online instructor had to say on the last exam:</p>
<p>“Fantastic job! Your explanations and proofs are sharp and elegant. It’s abundantly clear that you can do the mathematics, but explaining your thinking in such a translucent fashion is truly remarkable.” </p>
<p>“You essentially walked through the derivation of something most college sophomores, say, might find difficult to follow the first time around!” </p>
<p>I’m just happy, in spite of the test lengths, that there’s no hesitation in my S’s mind that he will move on next year to multivariable calculus.</p>
<p>And he now knows the pain of working his tush off, which will serve him well in college. A good lesson to learn right here and now.</p>
<p>YAY that’s wonderful FAP. Do these comments get included with what gets send with the CTY transcript to colleges? </p>
<p>I don’t remember, was this the final exam in a semester long course or a mid-year exam in a year long course?</p>
<p>And I’m glad when they see the results of their hard work. D is complaining about some teachers who she thinks are playing favorites, not sure how much is really true and how much she doesn’t like when the kids who don’t do the work can BS through the discussions etc and get a good grade.</p>