<p>Home from the test. Ds thinks he did well, maye hitting his goal score, but didn’t hit it out of the park. And says even if he hits his goal score he’d do it again. lol I knew it was too low!</p>
<p>Saw at least 10 classmates there, kind of a lot because they tested at a different GS from their own.</p>
<p>I don’t even know – when are scores released?</p>
<p>^^^Feb 16th. D2 is also home; thinks it was a little easier than October but ended up getting a bad headache about 2/3 through. So we’ll see. I’m pretty sure it’s her last time down that road either way. She ended up seeing a young girl from our church who must have been there for Duke TIP purposes; D2 commented that she thought she was only 6. Um, no ;)</p>
<p>my3girls: Welcome!</p>
<p>Feb. 16th? Hmmm, right before we go on our college visits. That could be good or bad. Now, I’m going to lurk on the official Jan. 28th SAT thread and see what everyone else thinks. Ds thought there were a couple of difficult math questions, but still thinks he aced it. Writing won’t be as good as he knows he can do, he says, but when he did his last practice test at home he also thought he bombed it and ended up only missing one, so who knows. He got the experimental writing section, which he said was draining. CR will be his crapshoot, saying it’ll just depend on whether he guessed correctly.</p>
<p>Yes, welcome, my3girls!</p>
<p>Welcome to My3girls. Isn’t it cool to see the kids sharing stuff that the parents might not be able to teach them?</p>
<p>D met with her GC about senior year classes, and the GC said, based on what you have taken so far, the classes you have selected are the ones colleges will be looking for. D is having second thoughts, so she better decide soon before they lock down everything.</p>
<p>D13 took the SAT “all by herself” this morning. Since she is at boarding school I couldn’t print her admission ticket, make sure she got to bed at a reasonable hour, fix her breakfast, pack a snack and pencils, all things I used to do in the old days. Sigh. I’m sure she did fine. She cut the apron strings a long time ago but I still feel… She had a 2160 from last year and when I talked to her afterwards she said, I’m not interested in HYPS anyway, so I don’t think I’ll take it again no matter what I score this time. That’s probably okay. I was hoping she might up her score a little bit to try to get an invite to interview for NYU Abu Dhabi next year. We’ll see. I hope everyone is happy with their scores. Do you know if they give the same form of the exam to everyone on the same date? DD thought there was an experimental math section. Anyone else think so? If so, which one did your child think it was?</p>
<p>D is in SAT prep but one of her friends was by yesterday to borrow a calculator and get some emotional support for the SAT today. The parents want her to take it “cold” as a baseline. D’s PSAT was enough of a baseline to make it pretty darn clear that some prep could help. No need for more baseline. The first test of the SAT prep was pretty disappointing. She has decided that she will not pick her “dream” school until she has one SAT score so her “dream” will only be a likely “dream” where she is in the middle of the SAT range. She will take the March SAT and the April ACT. If the scores are mediocre (not CC mediocre but something around 1600-1700) she can spend the summer studying or she can make a reasonable choice of schools to apply to where she is in the range of SATs.</p>
<p>DS said ‘it’s all a blur,’ then spent the rest of the day in NYC with a friend. He is SO much calmer now that it’s done…in fact, he says he’ll take the March one, and now I’m the one saying to wait and see. I don’t know if it’s because he thinks he didn’t do well or because he has now gotten caught up in the chase. I wish it were possible to sign up for the March after seeing the scores without paying extra, but those CB folks are too clever for that…</p>
<p><a href=“Joy, Then Misery, as Some Vassar Early-Decision Applicants Learn True Fate - The New York Times”>Joy, Then Misery, as Some Vassar Early-Decision Applicants Learn True Fate - The New York Times;
<p>Have you seen the story about Vassar mistakenly sending acceptance emails to ED 2 applicants, and then reversing them soon afterwards?</p>
<p>Scary. Something to keep in mind for next year. Don’t be too quick to do anything non-reversible, such as withdrawing applications to other schools, on the basis of electronic communication.</p>
<p>No SAT test takers here this weekend. Taking the ACT in April though. DS is trying to decide if he wants to take the SAT in May or in June.</p>
<p>DS decided tonight to send his 4 free test scores from yesterday’s SATs to some colleges and NMSC. As I watched him do this on his laptop, I got a pit in my stomach - it suddenly feels real - not a completely hypothetical what if he goes to college. Or let’s plan for the distant future, but oh crap this is real. Funny, I didn’t have that moment when we started visiting schools, but just tonight.</p>
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<p>OMG- I didn’t even consider that part of it. How awful would THAT be, to notify other schools and then have your admission withdrawn? Yikes. I am so glad that you said that. </p>
<p>Sounds like it went well for the SAT test takers this time around! </p>
<p>Mom24Boys- I totally hear you. I can be going along just fine and then something hits me like a punch in the gut. </p>
<p>Thank you to everyone who gave input re: Social Work. It was helpful. She knows she will have to get a Masters for sure, and I’m going to push her to have apps in to one or two schools that don’t have SW that were at the top of her list before, as well as the schools she chooses that does have a BSW. </p>
<p>Report cards came this weekend and she did well. All As except a B in Physics and her Semester Grades were all As and 1 B as well. Very pleased! We’re facing quarter THREE of her JUNIOR year now… OMG!!</p>
<p>Hi all after a long time…</p>
<p>Vassar story is scary indeed and some thing to keep in mind for next year…</p>
<p>Nice to know SAT went well for all. My S13 also took SAT this saturday.</p>
<p>We have a junior parent night in his school tomorrow evening. This is the first ever contact that the school is making in terms of college application process. I have never seen his guidance Counselor before.</p>
<p>Have any one gone through a Junior parent night or any thing similar to it? What can I expect? Is there any thing that i should be aware of?</p>
<p>I hope i can bring back some info from the night and i am very much looking forward for this.</p>
<p>Donivrian: the junior parent night I went to wasn’t helpful to me, but I hear it is at other schools. What I would say is that it’s always good to at least say hi to the GC (hopefully before the meeting starts) so she/he can put a face to the name. You should at least get some insight as to how your school processes transcripts, what their turnaround time is, if you have Naviance, etc. Good luck!</p>
<p>Hi! My son is also graduating in 2013…can’t believe it…time goes so fast.</p>
<p>I had a question for courses in senior year. What history course are most kids taking? Son took APUSH this year, so don’t know what is typical to take for senior year to be competitive? </p>
<p>AP Euro History?
AP Economics?
AP Government?</p>
<p>Do competitive schools have a preference which to take?</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>Hi Meadow1234! Welcome! </p>
<p>As far as APs for sr. year: I don’t think colleges really have a preference of one social science over another. My older D took all three (econ and govt are required here). She received college credit for all three but only AP Euro counted as a pre-req and allowed her to take upper level history. But she’s a history major. If your child is not majjoring in history, I doubt it matters which social science they take.</p>
<p>Hi Meadow! Welcome to the thread! At our HS, most competitive students have already taken AP Euro as sophomores; it’s a requirement to take a Government and Economics class so most take the AP versions as seniors (they’re 1 semester each) unless the kids are in IB in which History of the Americas IB covers them.</p>
<p>Thank you RobD. I will keep that in mind when seeing GC</p>
<p>Welcome Meadow to the thread. I too don’t think the colleges will prefer one subject over other. I always advised my S to take a course out of interest/to explore the area of interest. This year he is taking AP US History. Dont know what he is going to take in senior year.</p>
<p>Hello Hello! </p>
<p>Joining this thread after accidentally reading 2-3 pages of the “Parents of College 2013 Graduates” before realizing that their kids are something like 21 now! Ooops! </p>
<p>Glad to have found you all and I ‘know’ I am going to need your support in the long months to come. (le sigh.) :)</p>
<p>Meadow–at our school Econ is a required course most seniors take so some take the AP Econ but most just take the regular Econ course because they like the teacher better and then take AP Psych for a “sluff” class senior year. The classes you listed are usually taken sophomore or junior year here.</p>
<p>As for what colleges want, from what we have been told they want to see the AP classes in the “hard” classes–Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, etc. if those are the only AP classes kids take. We have also been told that even if they do an AP class in high school and get “credit” for it in college, if it is in their major, the college generally won’t accept those credits for classes in their major and count them as gen ed credits (for the more selective schools we have looked at). Each school is going to be different but for the most part, if a student only takes AP History and AP English courses it won’t look as good as someone that has taken AP Math and AP sciences.</p>
<p>Now, we had scheduling issues with our son’s schedule for next year. He was trying to fit in AP Stats as an extra math class next year along with a college level Spanish class (which would give him 10 college credits). He emailed the admissions people at his top two schools and they both said to take the Spanish class over the AP Stats.</p>
<p>Meadow: Gov & Econ are required here too, so at our school they take AP Gov and AP Econ. We don’t offer AP Euro, but most of them took AP World as sophomores.</p>
<p>Definitely starting to seem very real.</p>