<p>seiclan, for some reason, I have scores pegged to arrive during our family vacation: July 10 - 17.</p>
<p>lake42ks - That’s so true. You can’t let the competition to swallow you up. My D’s HS doesn’t have AP’s. We are somewhat protected in that respect. I don’t know tho how long they can hold out. Pressure from alpha parents are building up.</p>
<p>How long does it take to receive the SAT score by slow mail? My D requested a postal delivery. We don’t have it yet.</p>
<p>We only did the online but, usually it takes 3 weeks by mail.</p>
<p>Thank you. It is slow! As if it’s coming from the arctic.</p>
<p>On the AP electronic discussion groups for teachers, there is un-official word that the teachers may have online access to scores as soon as July 6th. So, that is another option for seeing your scores.</p>
<p>^ mathinokc, can a teacher in 1 AP class see a student’s other AP scores? Technically, they probably can as there is only 1 AP #.</p>
<p>On the big reason I regret sending D to this HS. AP’s are offered to jrs and srs and very rarely to sophomores. Had I not been so involved in S’10’s college search, I may have figured out that I could petition to have her placed in APs. So, my next plan was to enroll her in cc for the summer but the classes filled up even before they opened to the HS’ers. So frustrating. </p>
<p>On the positive side, she is involved in some very good ec’s at the school like stud. gov and mock trial along with her sport.</p>
<p>Lake42ks –</p>
<p>It’s a brand new system and teachers are getting online access to the scores for the first time this year. So, no one knows for sure.</p>
<p>That said, my assumption is that the teacher will only be able to see the scores for their classes.</p>
<p>D’s AP Euro teacher asked the students to email her with their scores–D was thrilled to report she earned a 5. We are very happy for her, she really wanted that 5!
Sophmores at D’s school have very few AP’s options—it’s generally AP Euro or AP Biology (not both). D will have a full slate next year, but I think earning the 5 in AP Euro this year has given her a big boost in confidence.</p>
<p>No APs for sophomores at our school…</p>
<p>I went to a high school that didn’t offer APs to sophomores and only offered one (APUSH) to juniors. It’s so frustrating sometimes because I know that all of us could have handled the work, and not taking AP class makes the SATIIs so much harder :(.</p>
<p>At my kids’ HS, a student can sign-up for as much or as little rigor as he wants. Wanna keep a 4.0 by taking all the easiest classes? Fine. Wanna take 4 or 5 APs as a soph? Fine. Administration and Guidance preach from the beginning that YOU are responsible for the outcome of your HS experience. Choose your classes carefully and wisely. Accept the consequences. I kinda like this approach.</p>
<p>DB, D’s school has the same approach here. It works for us. </p>
<p>D’s opened her SAT practice book today. That’s big news around here.</p>
<p>lilmom–great news indeed on the SAT practice book. Our D’s books are very lonely, stacked in a corner, being ignored…</p>
<p>DS is at the kitchen table working with a SAT tutor as I type this but, left to his own devices, he would still be in bed. I am quite sure that his afternoon plans do not involve anything more academic than xbox live strategies.</p>
<p>seiclan, here’s an idea - an SAT prep game for the xbox!</p>
<p>Great idea lilmom! </p>
<p>On negative note, SAT tutor just let me know that DS continues to be quite lopsided in practice tests, by 200 points. In his experience, very few kids (with my son’s stats) bridge that gap. Very disconcerting. I find myself combing the CC Stats profiles sections of the different colleges for the admission status of kids who have SAT’s of 750M/550CR. I know, it is early yet in the process, but I do believe that he is correct about my son. He may not be willing to put the time in to memorize tons of word lists and practice practice practice for this. It is what it is. This time next year we will see what he has accomplished and try to come up with the college list. I really don’t see him at a techy type school (which is the type of school that seems to not mind the disparity). Maybe AP English Lang will help him this year as well.</p>
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<p>seiclan- my son has such stats. I think he might have finally topped out his CR at a 570. My son did not have the rigorous courseload your son has taken. He was strong in Math but never saw himself as much of a serious student. Grades as lopsided as his SAT scores.
My son was looking for smaller schools. I used US News premium addition and I broke each school down by percent of students who had a Math SAT score above 700 and also the percent who had CR below 550. It gave me a clear picture versus using overall SAT score averages. I also listed male/female ratio.
I considered son’s changes greater at schools where few had high Math SAT scores and were heavily female. I felt at these schools my son was more likely to meet some stats they were trying to raise.</p>