<p>D just brought up SAT prep. With D1 we did private tutoring through a local company that has since gone out of business. With Kid 2 we did the Kaplan’s or PR can’t remember which class that the PTA had arranged. It was a group class and I don’t think he learned much. When CR came back low we did several hours of private with a tutor from one of the big companies. I was forceful in that we did not want or need the full on expensive private one on one course. They resisted but in the end I think he did 4 private lessons with a score increase of about 70 points.With a age gap I am out of the loop as to what the HS students of 2012 are doing.
D made the decision to leave her traditional HS and is starting today her alternative program. Her first Univ class is this evening, College Composition.She is not on a traditional path and I am not sure how colleges will look at the course load. The Jr load might not be seen as rigorous as the traditional HS schedule would have. The nice thing is if she does go to a UC or Cal State she will enter with quite a large number of college credits.
After our summer trip she is talking about a gap year to Africa. She asked if the community college offered Swahili. On her own has started the SAT question of the day.
I am not sure where we are headed as this is not the path of her siblings.
Need to find her a SAT tutor.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for your comments. I’m thinking 2 hours a week for 3 maybe, 4 months. However, I think I need to think about finding someone who is good, but not necessarily $100 an hour! I’m going to have to think about this. I do think he’ll do better in March rather than this fall. March for SAT’s, May for APs (3 of them) and then June for finals. We have to fit the Bio SAT II in there somewhere too. It’s a busy year!</p>
<p>Do we know which SAT (oct, nov or jan) gives the test back?</p>
<p>I read these classes that your children are permitted to take, and I am sincerely jealous. I have had to find/fight for more advanced opportunities. We have been stuck in the NCLB ignore the advanced students so that everyone can have a chance mode. We only have six AP courses and two years of languages (German or Spanish). We are going to have to fight for second year German as it is not a class many students take. There is no Science or Math team, no Forensics or any other academic competition. We have football, basketball, soccer, baseball.</p>
<p>DD is a cheerleader with a 4.0 who earned a 32 on ACT/ 2140 on SAT as sophomore. She is taking classes at the college right now on our money because the school doesn’t have anything more advanced for her to take, and she needs to pull up her math score on ACT/SAT. We don’t have a lot of money to send her to all the camps we keep being informed about, but thankfully, she has been able to go to Governor’s School (one month), a mission trip to Honduras (two weeks), a Chinese language immersion called StarTalk (one month), and a leadership academy (one month), all of which cost us less than 2,500 (the mission trip took up the bulk of that). </p>
<p>I am currently looking at the Mississippi Virtual Public School classes, but I don’t know much about it other than they offer some more AP classes that she should be able to take.</p>
<p>cherryhillmom, I am fairly sure that you can order (it does cost extra) the Q and A (test back) in October and January but I am not sure of which other months have this.</p>
<p>“DD is a cheerleader with a 4.0 who earned a 32 on ACT/ 2140 on SAT as sophomore.”</p>
<p>That’s amazing. She’s capable of getting up to 35-36 and 2300-2400. Give that a try. More APs may not be a good idea unless she aces them all. A number of college courses should help as long as she does well in them. Do what she loves. Good luck!</p>
<p>Is anyone planning to visit colleges over the winter break? My D’s winter break starts a week before Xmas and ends a week after. Which would be better; to visit campuses before Xmas or after? Our plan is to visit California schools over the xmax break.</p>
<p>Make sure you call the colleges re a visit during the Winter break. A lot of the schools shut down around the holidays. Even if they are open, the campus can have a artificially “dead” feel when all of the students are gone.</p>
<p>I wish we could make the visit while schools are open. We have other plans for the spring break. Other holidays are too short to make a distant trip. Would you say it will be less “dead” before xmas?</p>
<p>It will be dead both before and after. D1’s comes home from college between 10-15 of Dec and doesn’t go back until after the 15th of Jan. It’s like the more you pay the less they stay in school.</p>
<p>Check with each school. Many are closed in December or are in finals but are open right after January 1st. You’ll have to look it up.</p>
<p>I checked. Students will be gone. The faculty may linger on. We have to get back by Jan 2nd.</p>
<p>D2 has the week of Thanksgiving off so we were going to check at a couple schools she wants to visit to see if we may be able to go then. Good news is that she finished her first chapter of APUSH reading so she only has three more to go before school starts on September 7th.</p>
<p>My D’s school starts on the 8th. It is approaching fast. Her school scheduler sent her schedule back. There’s a conflict. Now she has to take,</p>
<p>Lit
Latin Lit
US Hiastory
adv Calculus 1 (This is their AP)
adv Chem 2 (AP)
adv Phys 2 (AP Phys C E&M)</p>
<p>In her senior year, it will be</p>
<p>Lit
Latin Lit II
Euro History
adv Calculus 2 (AP Calculus BC)
required art course
Writer’s Workshop</p>
<p>How does this look? She would have liked to spread out science courses; Chem and Writer’s workshop this year putting off Phys till next year. Not working out that way.</p>
<p>Iglooo –</p>
<p>Taking Calc AB, Chem, and E&M all in the same year will probably mean quite a number of nightly problem sets, as there are “math-y” aspects to all 3 of those. There was also a good bit of reading in her chemistry class. It’s do-able, but it depends on your daughter and the various teachers involved.</p>
<p>On the other hand, doing Calc AB over a year is a really slow pace.</p>
<p>mathinokc, thank you. Is Calc AB one semester course in other schools? At my D’s HS, All the advanced courses are two years long. They are equivalent to Intro courses for Science Engineering majors in college. As for work load, Writer’s workshop has a great deal of writing that is time consuming. My D is not a science kid. She would rather do the wrting course regardless of work than double up on sciences. Would that look unfavorably to college adm not to have a science in her senior year?</p>
<p>At our local school, after math analysis course you can take Calc AB in a year or Calc BC in a year. You wouldn’t take Calc BC after Calc AB because you’d already know half the material. The high school normally has 1 section of AB and 2-3 sections of BC.</p>
<p>In a college setting, Calc AB is essentially a one semester Calc I course. AP Chem is a 2 semester course in college (Chem I & II). E&M is a one semester Physics course in college.</p>
<p>Here the AP classes are one year. So Calc BC would be one year. Is the junior year course Calc or PreCalc?
D did PreCalc and Honors Chem last year, it was a fair number of problem sets each evening. Her PreCalc teacher was great,the Chem teacher was not so good.<br>
D has one more essay to finish, then all the summer homework is done. She wants to be done, done, done by Friday night. It’s doable–but that includes two extra credit assignments, so she will be working hard. School starts Wednesday. I think she would have been done, but sinus infection turned into pnumonia slowed her down considerably.
It took several weeks before she got her energy back…I’m sorry she was sick over summer, but somewhat relieved that this didn’t happen during school.</p>
<p>They do have a regular Calc. From what you say I think that must be Calc AB. My D’s adv Calc I and II would be a full year course in college taught to Engineers as distiguished from calc for bio majors if bio majors take calculus. I have no idea why they make it so complicated.</p>
<p>Mom2M, It’s Calc 1. She took Precal/AlgebraII last year. That’s so true. Pneumonia during school would have been very tough.</p>
<p>Trying not to hover but… My daughter’s 11th and 12th grade boarding school is on a university campus. I know she would like to just pretend she is a college freshman (actually she would prefer to pretend to be a college junior) when she is involved in college stuff but she doesn’t quite have the familiarity with the setting to be able to do that. At the moment she is irritated with me because I emailed the university violin teacher with whom we had been in touch this summer regarding the university orchestra auditions. D auditioned yesterday but had no idea whether she had been given a place because no one had called her or emailed her. She thought she should know because the practices start tomorrow. I suggested that she go to the place where she auditioned to see if they had posted names. She went there and only found a seating chart with first names. Her name is pretty common so we weren’t sure whether her name was there. To settle the question, I sent an email and the violin teacher replied that she had, indeed, been chosen (and that there were no other young women with her name who had auditioned). I am delighted and I know D is happy and relieved but annoyed with me. Another example - She’s taking a college Spanish class and sent me an Amazon link to purchase the textbook last week but the text book didn’t arrive in time for her to do her first assignment so now she’s stressed. I wish she’d been comfortable with just finding the college book store and purchasing it. Ugh! She wants to be grown up but she isn’t there yet.</p>