<p>^^ YDS: Sounds great, and congratulations! Is your son taking 6 AP classes this year? Wow!</p>
<p>Yes. Itâs ridiculous. And he is signed up for six next year, too.</p>
<p>Only two APs here. In Latin Lit they have finished the new material, I assume they are reviewing and D has been doing review notes all along on her own, she loves this stuff.</p>
<p>APUSH. Teacher will have review sessions starting this weekend. D has done some review on her own. She was reading some MLK stuff last night, so I assume they are almost done with the new material.</p>
<p>In AP English Lang and Comp, they will start to review right after spring break (next week). APUSH is just starting the review this week. She is also self studying for AP French but is seriously debating taking it this year vs next year.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, my sister is taking AP Physics, English Literature, and European History, but I could be wrong about the English one (my school didnât offer AP, only IB, so Iâm not terribly familiar with the system). I think sheâs also taking a French class that isnât officially an AP but is meant to culminate in the AP exam.</p>
<p>Her school only allows students to take three APs each year, and only junior and senior year. Their college placements donât seem to suffer for it, and it must be a huge relief for the students.</p>
<p>Hmm, it looked like US History was up to WW1, and Biology said he was â15 minutes behind scheduleâ. (He had the entire year mapped out and had to make up two snow days.) Son is taking 2 APs this year and I think heâs signed up for 4 next year. Plus he took 1 as a sophomore.</p>
<p>Dâs taking 4 APs this year, and I have no clue what theyâre up to at the moment. She has really good teachers this year, so Iâm hoping theyâre where they should be. She took one AP last year and is supposed to be taking 6 next year, provided they fit into her schedule.</p>
<p>Oh well. Just after we have posts about how to try and keep our kidâs expectations down to a reasonable level next year, comes word to me that my Sâs calculus team partner (they took first recently at a regional competition) was accepted to Yale. (Iâm sure sheâs thinking right now, âTake THAT Stanford Slaughter.â She was also accepted to the USC Viterbi Engineering School.)</p>
<p>The kicker is that she took AP Calc BC last year with my S. On a recent LOR for a summer engineering program, the calc teacher wrote that my S was the top BC student that year.</p>
<p>Itâs going to be a looooooooooong 364 days now, isnât it? :eek:</p>
<p>^^ Yes. My D learnt that three kids she knows got into Yale this year, none of whom is (in her opinion) all that superlative and definitely not too different from herself. And all I want to talk about is how we need to find some good safeties.</p>
<p>So far I only know one student who got into Yale, and she won a national team competition (with 5k scholarship for each team member) plus all the requisite academic superstar-ness.</p>
<p>Iâm only taking 2 APs this year, 4 next year. None previously, so that makes for 6 totalâat a school that offers quite a number, although due to prerequisites and unwillingness to give up band, I myself only âopted outâ of 1 AP class (APUSH with a notoriously difficult teacher, and I hate U.S. history).</p>
<p>Ds came home with all kinds of results from seniors. One kid got into every school he applied to. Is deciding between Rice and Princeton. Niiiiice.</p>
<p>The good news is that ds is no longer totally opposed to A&M. Even mentioned the Corps. Yikes. I didnât think heâd go that far. The above-mentioned kid also got into A&M. Maybe that helped sway him? Also, the OOS LAC I thought was a fave no longer is. I guess all this college talk among the seniors has really made him think. Yea!!</p>
<p>Oh, any my college crush sent him a calendar that he loved. âIâm totally digging this calendar,â he said. Double yea!!</p>
<p>A Carleton calendar, YDS? Or do other schools send out calendars too?</p>
<p>Not sure about other colleges, but, yes, Iâm talking about Carleton. Of course, after complimenting the calendar he said, âBut I really donât want to go to school in Minnesota. Itâs cooooold.â He changed his tune again when I told him a good friend and his family are visiting there this summer. âWe should go with them!,â he said. :)</p>
<p>good luck on the subtle persuasion, YDS ;)</p>
<p>We are doing course scheduling now. After D fought the administration to allow her to audit a 7th class this year, she is pushing them farther and attempting to take (for real, not audit) a 7th academic class next year. The administrations compromise last year was the 7th class must be an arts class and it must be audited. Her advisor thinks she can handle it but the administration doesnât want to set a precedent. Her friends think she is wacko for not slacking off senior year. We shall see how this pans out. Oh yes, the 7th class would be a third language, which teacher would allow her to enter at level II after summer study.</p>
<p>jackief:</p>
<p>Donât you find it strange when the administration is pushing back on a student whoâs obviously striving like your D? Falling back on the âwe donât want to set precedentâ argument is the worst and laziest argument they could possibly come up with, IMO. If she has the passion and drive to want it, they should be trying to open doors to accommodate it, rather than set barriers. I wonder if they ever think of what message they are sending by their position.</p>
<p>FAP- what really ticked me off was when she began this fight and the administration wanted to setup a meeting, they only wanted to talk to H and I and not include her. Anyway, she has definitely been driving this and the teachers she has been bringing to her side for the length of this fight do see her passion in it and they will be writing her recommendationsâŠ</p>
<p>This is a private school and the workload for people taking the normal load of 5/6 classes with no more than 3 honors/AP (need special permission for more than 2) is pretty big and everyone has a two sports commitment also. If she stuck with their current recommendations it would be easier for her and still be the âmost rigorous.â So I am torn and donât want her to drive herself crazy.</p>
<p>We visited Emory and G. Tech yesterday. Yes, Emory is BEAUTIFUL. Esp. now with all the spring blooms! She liked it, no real enthusiasm, though. G. Tech is much more urban. She seemed to like it too. The only real discussion I can get from her about them is that âwe can leave them on the list for nowâ. Today we are at UGA. We missed the tour (my fault, went to the wrong place). Rode around on the buses. She said she didnât even want to attend the info session. It is beautiful, but toooooooooooo big for her. Well, at least that was a definitive answer. Leaving now for UF. Which of course will be too big, but it is in state. Let you all know later more info. if anyone needs it. I think she will be more engaged when we visit the northern schools in the summer.</p>
<p>WhirledPeasâWe visited Emory back on Presidentâs Day weekend, and I can only imagine how lovely the campus must look now that itâs spring. Even though your daughter may not seem that outwardly enthusiastic, it sounds like sheâs at least getting a better sense of what sheâs looking for in a school.</p>
<p>WhirledPeas - sounds like a productive tour for your D - and your D may become more (or less) enthusiastic about the schools you visited after sheâs had some time digest all the information. I know that last summer, we visited 4 schools, and D like all 4 of them - but shortly after our visit, she knocked one (MIT) off her list as she thought it wasnât the right place for her. Also, she realized that she liked Tufts more than she had originially thought. Iâve been hoping she might like to look at Emory, but itâs a little farther than she wants to go, so I wonât push her.</p>
<p>Have fun at UF! Hope she likes it, even if it is too big for her.</p>
<p>Jackief - good luck to your D. I think itâs great that sheâs so ambitious, especially since the school doesnât encourage the students to take on extras. I think you have to use your judgment (and hers) to decide whether the workload will be too much for her. Generally, the workload in language classes isnât too bad - at least thatâs been my and my Dâs experience. And I studied three languages, so I get your Dâs interest.</p>
<p>jackief: That is strange. Isnât 5 cores and 2 electives the norm for most kids? I think âelectiveâ should really mean just that- if you can fit it in your schedule, you should be allowed to take it- whether it is woodworking or Latin. I can understand if they want to limit the number of AP classes taken per year, our school does that too, but an extra language at level II should not be such a big deal. </p>
<p>It is also interesting that the admin wants to meet the parents rather than the kid. Our counselors really want the children be in the driverâs seat with respect to their class schedules, college selections, and applications. For example, I asked if I could have Naviance access- they told me that I needed my D to go in and ask the counselors to give me a separate login and password! And I dare not call the counselor to discuss class schedules- both my kid and her counselor would disapprove!</p>