<p>quoting mommusic:</p>
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<p>My D would kill to switch places with your son right now! Besides an English paper due today and a physics lab due earlier this week, she also has an EC event tonight, which I’m sure will be short staffed with so many of the kids being home with the AP flu. I hope the organizers will appreciate the kids who do attend… At least she had Monday off from sports practice due to a race on Sunday.</p>
<p>You can put undecided now, but there’s no point really. If you find two schools that care about demonstrated interest that your kid might be interested in you may as well send the scores. You are in no way stuck with them. You’ll have lots of time to figure out what the first choice really is.</p>
<p>Ahh…thanks IloveLA. So to clarify (since I am myself not national-merit-level bright):</p>
<p>Suppose my D uses this “college plans reporting service” and names Oberlin and Macalester to demonstrate interest, will she still be able to name yet another school (eg Rice) as her first choice when/if she becomes a finalist?</p>
<p>ETA: I think mathmom just answered my question.</p>
<p>Just a quick drive-by post to share the Lafayette visit report I just posted: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visits/lafayette-college/7817325.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visits/lafayette-college/7817325.html</a></p>
<p>Okay, so since I had to pick up the dog from the groomers, I decided to go home and assist S who’s studying for APUSH. Since I left work early to do so, does this mean I have a parental variety of the AP flu? :)</p>
<p>Only if you left complaining about a headache or some other simulated illness.</p>
<p>I just spent 30 minutes helping ds study using the cc APUSH thread 
, but now he’s off to the official study group with the teacher. This is the test he’s studied hardest for. I hope it pays off.</p>
<p>Anyone pay for AP scores? I have friends who pay for SAT scores. Just wondering …</p>
<p>We don’t (as parents) pay for things like semester grades or AP scores. The tradition in our family is that some other close family members does so. My uncle was the one who so gifted me. I did this (through HS) for my nephew. My sister is now doing it for my S. It’s not huge money but enough that he notices and it pleases him. Last year, based on his AP performance, he got an extra bonus (for a 5-5-4.)</p>
<p>When he wasn’t putting forth much effort I thought about using the stick approach – reimbursing me for every test I paid for that he didn’t make a 4 or a 5 on. But I mellowed. But he’s got four tests next week that I think he’s barely put any thought toward, and I wonder how he’ll do on them. He seems pretty confident about physics, but the others seem like afterthoughts.</p>
<p>I don’t pay for grades, AP or otherwise. D is completely self-motivated. With S, I don’t think it would make a difference.</p>
<p>IloveLA - thanks for posting that link. I’d missed that one and it was very helpful. </p>
<p>scualum - still haven’t checked the CDS, but I will. Thanks for the advice.</p>
<p>Never paid her for grades or scores, but we do sometimes use a good report card as an excuse to go out to a nice restaurant and celebrate.</p>
<p>So tomorrow’s my non-working Friday (alternative work schedule) so what do I do with it? I’ll be spending the whole day with the Ed Foundation (well, I am a trustee) setting up for our big annual dinner/fundraising bash “Tribute to the Stars” honoring teachers, volunteers and donors. With this economic environment, I’m crossing fingers no teacher we honor is on the street next year! For a variety of reasons, I heard all the fifth grade teachers at one elementary school are on the chopping block, yikes!</p>
<p>^^^ That sounds like us. We’ve never paid for grades, but sometimes it’s nice to surprise them with a little something.</p>
<p>We don’t pay for grades either - but a great report card or result on a test might result in a special treat of some kind… not every time but some times…</p>
<p>Oh, FAP, it would be awful to sever all the teachers in a single grade. Is anyone thinking about continuity or institutional memory? (rhetorical question, of course.)</p>
<p>We don’t pay for grades, either. However, a good report card can be enough reason for an early end to punishment. You know: time off for good behavior.</p>
<p>::walks away wondering if that makes her look like a mean mom with a couple of JDs::</p>
<p>Eep. Thanks for the reminder about NMF notifications! I picked it up ages ago but totally forgot. The deadline is May 26 by my letter.</p>
<p>Now, what schools to choose? Definitely Rochester, and maybe Oberlin?</p>
<p>DB:</p>
<p>All the 5th grade teachers happen to be new at that school. Of the former ones, one is on leave, one transferred to a school closer to her home (so perhaps she can be cajoled to return) and another moved out of the area.</p>
<p>FindAPlace - wow about the 5th grade teachers! That’s an unusual situation.</p>
<p>CD - I think it was on the other thread that you mentioned that Cornell didn’t have a place for your S to sign in? When we visited, they had D fill out a long form, so I think they do keep track of visits. You must have been there on an off day or something, or perhaps they changed their policy? Not only that, but D’s received several emails and letters from them since the visit. The only other school that’s done that so far is Lehigh - 2 letters since her visit, and that was less than a month ago. I think she’s received a few other follow-up letters, but none as quickly as the ones from Cornell and Lehigh. </p>
<p>Keil - U or Rochester is going to be inundated with those letters now…lol. Was that the only school that said that interviews were very important? It was definitely the only school from D’s list that said that.</p>
<p>LILori – No sign-in at Cornell was the case when S1 visited in April 2007. He and DH both asked.</p>
<p>Geez, S2 hasn’t even gotten his NM letter from the GC and he’s at least Commended. Probably so busy with APs and IBs that they haven’t even opened the envelope with all the letters.</p>
<p>We go out for dinner to celebrate big scores (AP/SAT-type stuff), but not every marking period. At the rate S2 is going this semester (fingers crossed), he may be due one heck of a dinner, though. Grades won’t come out til the last week of June – usually within a day or two of AP scores going live on the phone system. Come to think of it. SAT scores will be out around then, too. Guess by the beginning of July we’ll have a pretty good sense of where he stands.</p>
<p>When do AP scores come out by phone? And how do you register/pay the extra $8 for phone notification? I’m normally content to wait, but I’ll be gone all of July at a summer program.</p>