<p>We didn´t have the Naviance program when D1 was applying to schools 4 years ago, so it is all exciting and new to us. Aside from the scattergrams, it is a great tool to track application documents.</p>
<p>Iglooo, my older D used her Latin teacher. Only one school had more specific requirements where it couldn’t be used.</p>
<p>Add me to the “I love naviance” camp. Our school uses it to send all docs in addition to the scattergrams and comparisons.</p>
<p>Sent from my DROID2 using CC App</p>
<p>jackief, Thank you for the info. I envy everyone who gets to see your kids’ naviance. My D hoards everything that comes to her. I am not invited to take a look.</p>
<p>Have your kids decided what they are taking next year? My D is signing up for</p>
<p>Lit
Euro
Latin - Vergil
Writers’ workshop
Calc
Studio Art
German - maybe</p>
<p>If she gets the courses she’s after, knock on wood, it’ll look something like this:</p>
<p>Studio Art
Art History 2
19th c. English Lit./Creative Writing
BC Calc
AP Physics
Latin - Catullus</p>
<p>There’s a chance she may have several of the same teachers next year that she had this year, which would be nice, because she adores them all!</p>
<p>DS is hoping to take (registration was supposed to be this week but there is some district snafu going on so not sure):</p>
<p>AP Calc BC
AP Physics C
AP Gov/Honors Econ (AP econ not offered at our HS)
AP Psychology
AP Human Geography
Honors English 4
Honors Astronomy</p>
<p>Took DS to the doctor yesterday, turns out he has a sinus infection and is now on antibiotics. I am relieved. He has had this cold and cough for over three weeks and just spiked a fever on Sunday. Glad to have a cause and a cure.</p>
<p>My D expects to take AP Eng language, AP calculus - probably AB, 2nd year Chinese, AP physics, 1 sem. college linguistics, 1 sem. U. S. history, 1 sem. history topics (undecided which one), senior colloquium, plus 2 semester long literature courses. That is IF she stays at her state residential school for gifted juniors and seniors.
She just found out that she has been granted an interview for United World Colleges! Her interview isn’t until April but she has about a 50/50 chance of acceptance. That would change her graduation year to 2013 in order to go one of the UWC IB diploma schools around the world to study two more years with an international student body. She is very excited and nervous about the interview. Even though she’s already changed her graduation year once to take a foreign exchange year between 10th and 11th grade, I am happy for her and know that there are great things in store for her one way or another.</p>
<p>Good luck to your daughter Apollo!</p>
<p>We don’t have naviance, although until last year they did have something that showed stats on where kids were accepted or not, kind of like naviance. This year they switched to something new and they don’t seem to have scattergrams anymore -I guess the data from the old system couldn’t be imported. Maybe there will be data in there from the 2011 class for my son to look at.</p>
<p>Igloo - the writers’ workshop sounds cool! My older son took Latin Vergil - he never felt like he was very good at Latin and got a 1 on the AP test (so I guess he was right!). My 2012 son is taking the 5 core classes and then filling his other two periods with extra math stuff. He should be in hog heaven!</p>
<p>Apollo6 - congrat to your daughter. Good luck with her interview.</p>
<p>DD’s senior schedule is not yet finalized, but she is looking at:</p>
<p>AP English Lit.
AP Calc AB
AP European History
Hon. C.S. Lewis Seminar
Hon. Physics
AP. Music Theory
AP Psychology or an Acting class</p>
<p>Everybody’s course selection looks quite interesting. It makes me wonder why we think the US education isn’t working. Kids are working hard in interesting courses. What else is there?</p>
<p>PN - My D is looking forward to Writers’ workshop. Finally allowed to write something other than essays!</p>
<p>Apollo - Good luck to your D. Exciting!</p>
<p>D’s course registration is still a few weeks away. She has a philosophy/religion course she needs to fit in for graduation requirements. That means she will either over load her schedule or drop either AP Spanish or science. My guess is that the science will go (she has already taken Bio, Chem and AP Physics), since she is a humanities kid and really wants to take a history elective next year.</p>
<p>D is supposed to register this week, but she hasn’t collected signatures yet. She’s planning on 2 semester-long English electives (Gender Studies and Modern Theater), 2 semester-long History electives (History of Philosophy, History of Astronomy), Calc-based physics, Modern Physics, Environmental Chemistry, 4 semester-long math electives (one of which probably won’t get enough enrollment and won’t be offered), and French independent study. I don’t think I’ve forgotten anything. The English and History electives have definitely been chosen because of the teachers.</p>
<p>Seiclan - hope your son feels better!</p>
<p>I can’t get over how different and wide spread net of these high school courses! I would love to have taken a C.S. Lewis seminar! We are still debating about Physics and Bio2. Bio2 is winning out but still up for debate if Calculus is taken at the local community college. We add English, PE and AP Psych.</p>
<p>D is still sorting this out. She’ll do her off-site humanities program in the morning (which will give her English and Social Studies credits), and then take Environmental Science (the school is just getting approved for AP Enviro, so this will be AP level without the official designation), AP Gov, and something else - I’d love for her to take APUSH because the teacher is awesome, but that may be an overload. Oh, and she’ll do AP Calc online because she can’t fit it into her schedule.</p>
<p>Yeah, as I write this, I think I’m going to have to give on APUSH :(</p>
<p>Oh, and I forgot the online health class, required for graduation.</p>
<p>I agree with others … it is fascinating to see the breadth of interesting classes on the different schedules for next year.</p>
<p>My daughter will take:
AP Literature
AP Statistics
AP U.S. History (The students at her school take U.S. History in the 9th grade, but she truly enjoys the subject, so wants to take the AP class as well.)
Astronomy
Comparitive Religions (semester) - Film & American Popular Culture (semester)
Global Issues in the World*
Journalism
(* if she gets one of the major editorial staff positions on the newspaper, Journalism will be a two-period class and she will delete the Global Issues class)</p>
<p>By the way, I am looking forward to the NAVIANCE document tracking abilities as well. Very glad that our school system opted to add this software to our high schools’ tool sheds.</p>
<p>Apollo, congratulations and good luck to your daughter and, seiclan, good health to your son!</p>
<p>Oh, I forgot to add a question that I meant to ask.</p>
<p>In terms of looking better in the college admissions process, does it help to take a credited (3 hours credit) class at the local university over the summer? Maryland offers a three-week program for high school students; the students take one class from a selection of courses. My daughter would like to do this in any case, but I am just curious as to whether having such college credits carries extra benefits when applying to colleges in the fall.</p>
<p>Our HS only offers 6 periods, so it’s a struggle for my D12 to fit in everything. She took APGovt last summer and must take Econ (or maybe APMacroEcon or APMicroEcon) this summer to free up room for Orchestra next year. </p>
<p>So, her senior year schedule will be:
AP English Lit
AP Latin
AP Physics
Orchestra
something to fulfill PE requirement
Math</p>
<p>The big question is what to do about math. She is taking AP CalcBC now, which is the top math at her HS. She wants to take AP Stats with her friends. It should be an easy A for her and boost her weighted GPA, but it’s not a great class – full of humanities kids avoiding Calc, like the aforementioned friends! I am encouraging her toward CalcIII either at a local college (but it’s a scheduling/transportation nightmare) or else online (but then she’s stuck working solo). She has one very good friend who is in the same boat math-wise, so maybe the two of them could do CalcIII online together…</p>
<p>@mihcal1</p>
<p>Just a word in favor of AP Stats. My '10 D was a math kid who took both AP BC Calc and AP Stats. She really loved the stats. It is a very useful discipline for understanding the world, even if it is not a high powered math course. Really gave my D a different perspective on the practical applications of math. HS may be a good time to get a taste of it. There are plenty of opportunities to take more Calc in college, but harder to fit in a stats course unless you are a social sciences major.</p>
<p>My daughter just signed up for
AP Lit
AP Calc II
AP Microeconomics
Honors Comparative Government/Politics
Honors Geology
Honors English IV
Creative Writing II</p>
<p>told her to at least throw in one class she’d actually enjoy, but she of course only wanted to load up to boost her rank. She finally agreed to take Creative Writing II with one of her favorite teachers!</p>
<p>No course slection issue here. D2 is doing the IB program, and they are all 2 year courses. As a matter of fact, she will most likely have the same teachers.</p>
<p>mihcal1 - if you don’t mind me saying so, if your daughter is considering math or science major in college, I would wait to take some of those higher level math when she is in college. I don’t think it’s a good idea to get skip those introductory math courses in college. Senior year is going to be very stressful with college applications (essay writing), if she could ease off a bit and still be viewed as taking “most rigorous” courses in high school, then she should be fine. If she is to take Calc III and not do well, it would be worse than if she didn’t take it. Our friend’s son took differential equations in high school (only 3 kids in the whole class took it), got a low B, but also dragged his other grades down because he was struggling with the course, he was WL at a lot of top schools.</p>