<p>DD also took the AP Eng exam this morning. She wasn’t as negative about it coming out as she was going in. She is predicting a 4 (this morning she thought a 2 I think the fact that they couldn’t really study threw her for a loop.</p>
<p>Brace yourselves: she only has 4 more days of school left: tomorrow; Friday she is not going because it’s an activity filled day with yearbooks, etc. and she has decided that a crash day at home would be better. 3 days of exams next week and she will be done. Ta-da!</p>
<p>to echo what vp said, the kids and their stats you see on here are not the real world and can really skew your perspective. The parent threads are much more sane (although I’m not so sure about the group in the '12 thread yet, lots of super kids there) so take things with a grain of salt and don’t worry! Staying away from the areas frequented by the kids, or just reading it and processing it relative to your own situation, is a good way to keep it in perspective.</p>
<p>Thank you for all the welcome, and the advice. I don’t know what the difference is between DD and D…care to enlighten me? I am already hooked, and have been reading the admission and college threads and it is rather daunting…</p>
<p>Panic attacks and inferiority complexes. I happen to be scarce around here these days due to my current “IC.” I can’t wait to resume more active posting when this funky spell subsides. </p>
<p>I think the '12 list looks like it does because those parents are ALREADY on CC! I didn’t join until about one year ago, as S was finishing up his sophomore year.</p>
<p>OK, I just went to the ‘12 parents’ thread. Extrapolating from that, kids in the class of 2020 better be taking AP classes right now in grade school, unless they want to end up in community college.</p>
<p>The significance of AP classes may be overrated depending on the high school one attends. We found that many elite schools give no credit for AP classes anyway. Maybe they are used for placement?</p>
<p>Believe it or not, my S did not take a single AP test. Didn’t need to.</p>
<p>Yeah, freshman CC parents are very self-selected.</p>
<p>mommusic - That’s a pretty crazy project. Would your S have to research genealogy from scratch if he hadn’t already done so before? I don’t even know where I’d start. All of my relatives still live in China, and half of them are illiterate (in Mandarin, native language) and/or living in rural villages with sporadic plumbing.</p>
<p>At my school, everyone is required to take the AP test that corresponds to an AP course. Or else you automatically fail the course for the year. I had my last exam, Lang, today–it went pretty well, I think.</p>
<p>^ I love them all dearly (well, most of them), but I shudder at the thought of doing a comprehensive genealogy that goes back further than grandparents.</p>
<p>Ds seems pretty confident about the English AP today. Didn’t skip a single multiple choice, he said, and felt good about all the essays. Woohoo!</p>
<p>I had a fun time this morning. On behalf of the (sports teams) Booster Club, I got to represent them at the big meeting this morning, where the reps of all the groups make their selections for community scholarships. The total pot to be doled out, typically in $300-$1,000 increments, is around $100 K. We had some strong student athlete applicants. They had to pass the bar of being a 4 year athlete, at least a 2.5 GPA and more than the minimum required community service. The six I got to select well exceeded the bar.</p>
<p>It’s so fun to see the products coming from our HS this year!</p>
<p>I just went to ds2’s middle school sports banquet and got all teary. He was lucky to have a great coach this year, a new kid just out of college. If I get teary at the MS sports banquet, I can just imagine what next year’s graduation will be like.</p>
<p>No studying being done tonight. “Lost” season finale trumps all.</p>
<p>Thank goodness APs are done this year for S. He felt pretty good about his AP English Language test, which I was happy to hear considering the virtual non-prep for this that I was to understand is more or less the norm for this test. Go figure.</p>
<p>S is ready to submit his last unit test tonight before the final in linear algebra. Two SAT II tests in early June and then smooth sailing.</p>
I think the fact that they couldn’t really study threw her for a loop.</p>