<p>FindAPlace, healthcare for the poor will be completely gone? I feel so badly for beautiful California. What a sorry state of affairs.</p>
<p>We are scrambling to find a rental truck so H can drive furniture to D’s college for the house she and friends are renting this summer and next year. This is kind of a last-minute decision and are finding that Memorial Weekend is NOT the time to be needing a rental.</p>
<p>FAP, That is horrible. </p>
<p>We’ve got nothing planned but something usually comes up. Of course, it’s not so bad to just relax at home and attend the Memorial Day ceremony on Monday.</p>
<p>I’ve just about given up reading the paper as well - today was especially depressing here with the death of a local celeb along with the budget disaster… </p>
<p>CA needs a basic relook at our priorities - and at our governance process. IMO, a lot of our problems stem from well meaning people putting things on the ballot that commit the government to certain spending programs - in the process making it very inflexible. Add to that a system of electing representatives that ensure the parties safe seats - and also ensures that anyone with more than a few years experience gets termed out of office - and it is all very broken…</p>
<p>“I printed off the CB table that shows scores by increment and how many were at each level (although for 2008, since 2009 won’t be posted until August.)”</p>
<p>FAP - where can I find this info?</p>
<p>missemily516:</p>
<p>Here you go. It’s from the College Board web site. They have oodles of these tables.</p>
<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat_percentile_ranks_2008_composite_cr_m_w.pdf[/url]”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board;
<p>This shows a 1510 (3 part test) at the 51%. Just a reality check for some of the posters on CC. (I think the posters on our '10 site have a better idea of what a reasonable score is.)</p>
<p>Thank you! As an accountant I am thrilled to find these charts and graphs…It totally interests me.</p>
<p>Scualum: Last week “The Economist” had a great article about the problems in California and the movement to rewrite the constitution. Between the initiative system, the gerrymandered districting and the fact that CA is the only state which requires both a 2/3majority in both housese to pass a budget and a 2/3 majority to raise taxes, the state is pretty much ungovernable. We need to basically start from scratch.</p>
<p>Did you see today’s Zits?</p>
<p>My school decided to cancel school today and Tuesday due to swine flue scares (no confirmed cases yet, but something like 15% of the school is out with Type A flu), so 5-day weekend! Yay!</p>
<p>…of course, I’m part of that 15%, so I haven’t left the house since Saturday. <em>sigh</em> I hate being sick.</p>
<p>Just a caveat about those percentiles- they are single-sitting scores only. Superscoring by colleges would result in an upward shift of these numbers. I also don’t know if these are the <em>highest</em> single sitting scores or <em>all</em> single sitting scores of a given student. In other words, if a student takes the SAT in Jan and gets 600x3=1800 and then takes it again in May and gets 700x3=2100, do they delete the 1800 from their counts, or do both get counted? If the latter, then again those numbers might be misleading.</p>
<p>qialah:</p>
<p>I’ll have to go get a copy - sounds like a good article…</p>
<p>[Today’s</a> Zits Comic Strip - ArcaMax Publishing](<a href=“News & Entertainment by Email | ArcaMax Publishing”>Zits | Comics | ArcaMax Publishing)</p>
<p>For some reason the link did not work in my previous post…</p>
<p>Kelowna, When I saw the strip this morning, I told my husband: Look, I’m in the paper!</p>
<p>^^Yes, I saw in today’s paper. I’ve been trying. without success, to link to my Facebook account. The story of our lives at the moment.</p>
<p>I love Zits – it’s my life! :D</p>
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<p>The College Board explains their methodology in the intro to a longer report on SAT scores of 2008 college-bound seniors:</p>
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<p>For many students, their most recent SAT score will be their highest single-sitting score, as it’s not uncommon to improve a little upon retaking the test. For some (presumably a smaller number) their most recent score will not be their highest single-sitting score. For many it will be a mixed bag—a little higher on some portions of the test, a little lower on others. I would expect these changes largely to cancel each other out, but on average the most recent scores (i.e., the scores reported in these tables) are probably somewhat higher than the average of all the scores on all the tests taken by all the students in this cohort. However, they do not represent the highest single-sitting scores for all multiple test-takers—presumably, the scores that will be reported to colleges under Score Choice. And you’re certainly right that superscoring would tend to pull up the scores actually evaluated by colleges.</p>
<p>quilah–is this the article from the Economist? [California’s</a> budget crisis: No gold in state | The Economist](<a href=“http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13702838]California’s”>No gold in state)</p>
<p>Happy news–APs are over! D took Physics C Mechanics today. She’s up in her room RELAXING with music (and her laptop, I’m sure). Finals are nicely spread out over the next two weeks.</p>
<p>Congrats on the recently announced accomplishments. No awards given at D’s school (along with no GPAs or class rank), so no news to share, but no stress either.</p>
<p>astromom, yay for the stress free weekend! D had no homework the other night and actually watched a movie!! Will bring the SAT II study stuff on the weekend. Although I think the May date definitely wouldn’t have been conducive to taking them, jury is still out on of June date will receive prep time.</p>
<p>jackief–D has 2 subject tests in June as well, but at least they are short tests and relatively straightforward prep.</p>
<p>I don’t recall who is taking the US history subject test, but my D did not find that it flowed naturally from excellent APUSH prep. She got a 5 on APUSH and a 680 on the subject test, which she was not happy with. Lots more detail in the subject test, so do separate prep.</p>