<p>Jaylynn - I’m sure many music lovers believe “Muskrat Love” was almost certainly robbed of a Grammy back in the day. And I don’t actually “know” those people. I was about 15 and didn’t get invited to that extended family dinner!! </p>
<p>When D interviewed for Smith this year, her alumna interviewer told D that HER Smith alumna interviewer had been Martin Luther King Jr’s daughter.</p>
<p>OK . . . we have officially pushed this to the edge of Wackalooniness with fond reminiscence of Muskrat Love. I hate to admit, though, that I was jealous of Toni Tenille when I was 5. Her hair was sooooo smooth and swingy and The “Captain” was just so . . . authoritative.</p>
<p>Another childhood fan of the Capt. & Tenille here…really Muskrat Love has to be about the worst song ever and I loved it!</p>
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<p>Okay I’m jealous of all the brushes with Springsteen, but most esp this one… I was in the front row of one of his concerts several years ago, and all I wanted was an ounce of his sweat to fall on me! He is another short one.</p>
<p>I’ve met many celebs over the years working in media, I’ve got stories. Where do you all want to meet for a beer later?</p>
<p>I was secretly, ok, maybe not so secretly in love with the Captain in my tweens…</p>
<p>A few notes about our IB/AP experience . . . more to follow, I’m sure</p>
<p>The initial difficulty is that when one is deciding what to do one doesn’t know which college they will attend and what they value for admissions or accept for credit. Some schools give a block of credits for IB but many only accept 6 or 7 on HLs. It is not a great way to get credit. So . . . kids end up doubling up on all exams to hedge bets. At our school all the IB and AP stuff is taught in the same class so they move more quickly because in many they don’t align very well. Right now D had IB HL History / AP Gov which doesn’t align really at all, so they swithc back and forth and move really fast. Also there is the issue of overlapping exams. Last year she had AP Calc on the same day as SL math. Her teacher did not recommend that students take both as apparently they don’t do as well with the lenght of testing and because they are testing very differenct things. D did both and got 4/5 and 6/7 which she was fine with. She will take calculus again anyway and isn’t going to try to use the credit or skip a class. </p>
<p>We went into it with the idea that IB was about the experience of being mentored through the estended essay, TOK projects etc. It has turned out that way for sure. He school has done a nice job of making the most of the project and group work. </p>
<p>It is true that kids who are not IB still have to do much of the IB stuff. The non IB still do the math portfolios and spanish presentations. They just don’t do the recorded oral exam. However, D is really swamoed right now with stuff - all the TOK presentations, orals in mid-winter, Group 4 night etc. really take a toll. THere’s no down time or coasting period.</p>
<p>More later, but that’s a start.</p>
<p>“Boss High”. Snork.</p>
<p>I am sorry for taking us to Muskrat Love.</p>
<p>^^Snork? Snork???</p>
<p>Renee, I’ll meet you. I am a huge Springsteen fan. First concert I went to was during his Born to Run tour. <em>swoons</em></p>
<p>Urban Dictionary: snork
[Urban</a> Dictionary: snorkVerb:](<a href=“http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snorkVerb:]Urban”>http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snorkVerb:) to drink something and have it come out your nose because you’re laughing so hard.</p>
<p>kar - we must have at least grown up in the same jersey shore area! Not that I condone this for my kids - but way back when they had paper licenses and I was under the drinking age I took my sisters license and registered for classes at the community college to get the picture id with her name just so I could go to the bars and see the bands. (okay, not “just”)</p>
<p>Glad someone posted “muskrat” - I yelled it when I read “chipmunk” - lol </p>
<p>My son is 1 of 3 in ab calc bc, he took ab in 11th (former school didn’t even have bc) There was nothing else to take and with a constantly rotating schedule it isn’t possible to do dual enrollment. (every time I read duel enrollment I giggle) I’m amazed they even offer multivariable. (maybe east coast kids are just dumber, or maybe those corn fed midwesterners have something on us)</p>
<p>Well, I almost typed in “Woodchuck Love” but that sounded wrong… 
I knew it was some type of disgusting rodent.</p>
<p>Saintfan - it was probably that captain’s hat that lent him the authoritative air.</p>
<p>I appreciate the IB info. D2016 will start pre IB next year. We picked the school because our District has been aligning curricula for the HSs in a way that makes it difficult to get rigor even in AP classes. She is an excellent writer and is pretty ambitious, so we’re hoping it will be a good fit.</p>
<p>Jaylynn - around here we call that a varmint. :D</p>
<p>Hmm, lots of varied AP/IB experiences.</p>
<p>At our school it’s a combined program, but not combined classes. The first year of the 2 year HL sequences are AP classes. Just regular AP classes…AP USH, AP Bio, AP Calc, etc.<br>
Freshman and Sophmore year are preIB. World History Honors, Biology Honors are Freshman classes, AP Euro Sophmore year. Junior/Senior Year are IB. Junior Year includes AP Bio, AP USH, English HL (first year), possibly the IB elective, Foreign Language (not IB specific, generally 4Honors as most students do the first year in middle school. But that’s not required). Math is either pre-Calc or AP Calc, depending on what they did in middle school. The AP classes are just AP classes. The IB classes are IB only. TOK starts second semester Junior year at night. AP tests are taken at the end of Junior year, along with SAT Subject tests.</p>
<p>Senior year includes English HL, Biology HL, History of Americas HL, IB Math (could be HL, for D’s class it’s SL), TOK, and possibly the IB elective and Foreign Language if not completed Junior Year. The IB classes are IB specific. Foreign Language is not IB specific (really the language classes are the weak spot at the high school) they are just the fourth year honors class of either Spanish or French.</p>
<p>As far as college admissions are concerned, the IB students tend to do very well. Our school has not used Naviance in the past (just started this year), but the IB Booster Club has tracked the information for years. As long as the kids do EC’s, they tend to do very well in admissions, both in general and as compared to the other students in the school. I do think it makes a difference in admissions. Paired with good, possibly unusual EC’s it’s great. A couple of students (who I personally know very well) did not do EC’s and had very different results despite similar GPA/test scores.</p>
<p>PN-wow! If I recall we are from the same corn’fed Midwestern area. It seems we have a tale of two schools, though that could be said of your school and most of the state. I am please that we are adding additional AP classes next year, up to 7 I believe.</p>
<p>Uh yeah, school-wise you are all out of our league. No AP and no IB - just some dual enrollment classes.</p>
<p>But our school doesn’t send kids to Ivies (or similar) either - once in a rare year, but those kids do a lot outside of school to make up for it.</p>
<p>Reading these past few pages makes me even more bummed that my youngest insists on being in ps instead of homeschooling like we did with his two older brothers for high school. (sigh)</p>
<p>We really needed to have done more homework before deciding on where to live 16 years ago.</p>
<p>My D isn’t a grade chaser. She chose IB for the rigor, the curriculum she was highly interested in, TOK, service component. Her biggest grade-chasing friends all went the AP route. They thought AP would get them the higher GPAs with a tad more free time, especially the Caucasian kids. I think that’s because the parents here who came from other countries were just more familiar with IB than a lot of the non-immigrant families. I can’t tell you how many “concerned” people “warned” my kid she would be a “minority” in IB here. Which with my globally-oriented kid, just made her want IB more. Haha But that’s probably not the same everywhere.</p>
<p>Our district puts AP and pre-IB kids together in grades 9 and 10, except I think for 10th grade English, if I remember correctly. When they move up to the 11/12 grade senior high school, they are mostly in separate classes. Spanish AP/IB stay together til Spanish 5.</p>
<p>mspearl- you are amazing in the way you see the good side of things. May this continue to help you heal, along with the love you are seeing at work in your family. You are important to us, and good luck to your D as she launches abroad this summer!!</p>
<p>ALL- such a warm and fun thread. You are great people!</p>
<p>I am afraid to admit this, as I do cherish my anonymity here (no, I am not a celebrity LOL just like my privacy)- but I grew up in the apt bldg where Paul and Joan lived, and the apt bldg next door housed Mr Redford and his family. Joel Grey and family lived in my bldg, too. Frankly I only saw them a few times, but I doubt ANY of these wonderful actors was much over 5’5"- maybe Bob was a little bit taller.</p>
<p>Anyway, a little housekeeping (brings out my Type A side, maybe not so appropriate for this wonderfully supportive thread, so sorry in advance, but HECK- I am a WACKALOON!): it seems that at least one line at the bottom of the ADMIT LIST was left off in the last posting.
Please add YALE back- mimk S, ijustdrive S?, performersmom D- if I recall- please correct if I am wrong!
Thanks for making the list!!!</p>
<p>eyemamom and kar: Jersey Shore girl here too. First album I ever bought was Born to Run. Still love it…</p>
<p>jaylynn–woodchuck love! Now that makes me snork!</p>
<p>Ok…off to be a productive member of society now…</p>