<p>Our HS offers APUSH ( if you take 9H in 8th grade) and AP Global during sophomore year, but my daughter chose not to go that route. She keeps going back and forth for junior year about taking APUSH, but decided to stick with honors. I called guidance and he said that her schedule will still have " most rigorous" checked off , so I decided not to force the issue.</p>
<p>Up until March of sophomore year she was planning to go for the IB diploma, but we both realized that in our school this was not a good idea for her. She will have 6 ( maybe 7) AP classes, 2 or 3 college classes through University in the High School programs, and the rest will be honors/advanced honors… I think it’s fine. Some of her friends will have an additional 2 because of APUSH and Global. I am finally very happy with her junior year schedule. That IB/AP debate had me crazy from September through Match- glad it’s over.</p>
<p>Congratulations on the great AP scores! My kids’ accounts were screwed up so we couldn’t see them online or send a report to D13’s school. Ugh! Had a so-so visit to UChicago with S15. He likes Chicago and is very comfortable in the city after a year in Beijing but he didn’t meet any students who shared his academic interests and was turned off by all the talk of science research. At least spending a day at the Museum of Science and Industry helped him make up his mind about his IB courses for next year.</p>
<p>D got her 4 on APUSH and is quite happy. It wasn’t a class she liked and she didn’t feel like she got much out of it so she was a little worried.<br>
We have been sort of trying to work on the driving thing. She’s had her learner’s permit for a while, and we’ve done some practicing, but she really doesn’t like driving. It brings on anxiety, etc. Anyone else have a teen that just isn’t that into driving yet?<br>
I remember not really wanting to drive either and waited until I was 17 even though we could get our licenses at 16.</p>
<p>shoboemom, my D was very anxious about driving at first. She didn’t like it either, but still wanted to press on because she wanted the freedom of having her license. The more she drove, though, the more she got comfortable. She really has come a long way with the driving and now enjoys it, so maybe that will be your D’s experience?</p>
<p>D got a 5 on APUSH. We were both shocked, as she did not feel well prepared nor did she feel good coming out of the exam. She thinks the multiple choice helped her quite a bit.</p>
<p>latichever, My understanding is that students will no longer get their AP scores in the mail. I think you have to view them online or get them from your teacher.
Suzy, I think you are right about the more practice the more comfortable she will be with driving. It’s getting past that stage that will be tricky. She’s been dealing with some anxiety this year so maybe the timing just isn’t great for her right now.</p>
<p>Thanks. Now they tell me. Last year, he and his sister, then a senior, received it in snail mail, so I naively assumed it would be the same this year. I went online and it seems he missed his early window. So it looks like we have to wait until Monday.</p>
<p>And I just asked my son. He knew all about it, but said he forgot about his window, or to tell us about the new system. Typical of his absentmindedness.</p>
<p>Congrats on all the great AP scores!! My 16 yo has no driving anxiety, but my older one did and of course she blamed me lol!! She says that my anxiety made her nervous and she is probably right. I do think it gets better with practice.</p>
<p>Congratulations on all the great AP scores! </p>
<p>Ha-ha, my 16 yo just figured out that he didn’t need to read everything for his online driver’s ed course that he’d been schlogging through for the past 6 months and he finished it in two days. So now he gets to take the test and finally get his permit. We’re not in a hurry, though, because he needs to be able to help pay for insurance. My oldest son paid for all of his costs but he had a good job. My 16 yo is starting to busk (street perform) with another cellist for a little bit of cash but otherwise, has no work right now.</p>
<p>Congrats on all the great AP scores! S2 did well with the WHAP and we are happy!</p>
<p>S2’s DL test is scheduled for tomorrow. He has not been driving much for the past 4 weeks since he was working at a camp. I AM nervous about how well he will do on the test but I hide it from him.</p>
<p>Ditto Congrats on the great AP scores! And Thanks to the posters who mentioned early score check. DS is out of town this week, so I have no idea if he knew scores would be online today (for our state), but I doubt he did. I checked AP Euro for him (no, he will not mind) and think he will be happy when he gets back tonight! He was sitting directly under an air vent during the test, which bothered & distracted him, so I had no idea how he’d do. (Except he has learned that he needs to <em>ask</em> if he can move seats under such circumstances in the future. The thought never crossed his mind during the test - ugh.)</p>
<p>FYI for those who might have missed it: One can follow a link thru College Board to view what credit (if any) a college will give for a certain AP score. I checked one college on DS’s radar, just for grins. YMMV</p>
<p>On the topic of driving, DS is just not very into it, so we drive with him when we can but we are not pushing it. However, I agree that he will probably learn to like driving more as he has more experience under his belt.</p>
<p>5s in APUSH, Statistics, and Physics B; and a 4 in Chemistry.</p>
<p>With his 5 from last year’s Calc AB, he’s already an AP Scholar with Distinction. </p>
<p>Congrats to others, and I agree it’s hard to predict, he thought he did better in chemistry than physics. My son, needling the Tiger Dad in me, said I must think him a failure. Actually, his chem teacher (who has a PhD, Breaking Bad, anyone?) is one of his favorites and will be teaching an organic chem class next year. </p>
<p>Maybe more important to my son is the $300 he pockets from a grant that gives $100 for each 4 or better in an AP stem.</p>
<p>^ Great Job and big congrats to your son!!
I am trying to decide if I should let my daughter drive home from driver’s ed later on today- that is my dilemma of the day. Maybe I will let her drive part of the way through the smaller side roads. We are not ready yet for main roads.</p>
<p>We have moved on to SAT/ACT studying- tutoring begins September. Every night she studies one vocabulary chapter ( about 10 words) and then I quiz her on the chapters that she has completed. It goes in ABC order and she is into the D’s.
She started doing sections from the ACT red book and the SAT blue book- one section per night just to get a baseline going. So far she has completed two science subtests from the ACT- one timed and one untimed. She has completed one full critical reading portion of the SAT. Tonight it’s SAT math ( one small section) and ACT reading. I am just trying to get a sense of where she falls at this stage of the game. </p>
<p>I have officially become a psycho mom and am not proud. She is motivated to do the work so I suppose it’s ok.</p>
<p>As I am called FF (fantastic father) by the DD (darling (or other other “d” adjective) daughter, I drove DD and a team mate up to field hockey camp at Amherst yesterday for 4 days of field hockey, with pick up scheduled for Wednesday. She than has a two day collegiate field hockey recruiting camp Thursday & Friday close to home. The coach emails for the recruiting camp went out last week which included a link to her videos.</p>
<p>DD began ACT tutoring. She has her first round of progress testing the end of next week with a meeting scheduled for us to review progress the following week. Depending on results, she’ll take either the late September or October ACT.</p>
<p>As a rising junior, DD’s school permits us access to Naviance so we can see how the application & success rate for the schools applicant pool to a large groups of colleges. It lists GPA, ACT/SAT scores, number of applicants to admissions, etc. </p>
<p>DD has a list of 50 schools segregated by DI, DII or DIII. We printed out sheets for each of the Divisions so she could see what GPA & standardized test scores she needs to be a competitve applicant. At this juncture, the more data the better. The collegiate list will be self-pruning as either the school or DD will eliminate one another from consideration of any number of reasons. This time next year, she’ll be down to a handful of very realsitic prospects.</p>
<p>I dropped D off at a week long Women in Engineering program at a large U yesterday. They are doing a lot of cool stuff, labs in 4 different types of engineering and a day at NASA and an environmental engineering project on a barrier island. 25 or so young women from around the northeast, mostly. I am hoping this gives her a sense of whether engineering is something she wants to pursue in college or not. Apparently this U is hoping it makes her want to pursue it THERE, the overall U gender ratio is 55-45 women-men but in the college of engineering it’s 18-82 the other way!</p>
<p>In any case, the other girls in the program looked like they’d have fun together, and she liked her roommate right away, so I left feeling good about it. I won’t see her for two weeks now as she’ll do a week vacation before returning to intense sports time for both her fall sport (vball) and finishing summer club (LAX). </p>
<p>Meanwhile it’s hot as heck here on the east coast, 97 in NYC yesterday, holy cow! We did drive-throughs and very brief walk-throughs of Haverford, Bryn Mawr, UPenn, Drexel and Temple yesterday. I wanted to get her gut reaction to small suburban LACs and large urban Us. We are nowhere near making a college list, just trying to do the initial gut feel and figure out if engineering or some kind of medicine or what for her mathy-sciencey interests.</p>
<p>Great job that your S. did, latichever. Congrats!
My D. has two 4s and one 5. I think she qualifies for something (along the lines of AP scholar.) We’ll have to check.</p>
<p>Wow you guys! Impressive AP results in this crowd! Congratulations to all. D had no APs this year so there was no nailbiting here. Next year will be a different story with 4 exams. (From a very selfish point of view, I’m not looking forward to next year.) </p>
<p>OHMom, that women in engineering program sounds great! My D has been loving her experience at Girls Who Code, saying this is the best summer experience she’s ever had. Of course what’s not to love? The program is housed on corporate campuses around the country and the girls are being treated like royalty while also being exposed to coursework in very cool areas: animation, mobile app design, physical computing, and of course learning the basics of several programming languages–mainly JAVA and Python, I think. They are paired with mentors and meet speakers who are themselves leaders in the tech world. According to D, the girls are all very motivated and very cooperative…and quiet, ha, perfect for my quiet girl. I don’t know that this is D’s calling but it does draw on some of her strengths and interests: it appeals to the detail oriented part of her that enjoys strategy and gamesmanship and the creative part that enjoys design. I’ll be interested to see if any of this carries over to the AP Comp Sci class next year. </p>
<p>D says she wants to start driving but I’m not helping her on this. The way I see it, driving is an adult activity and one that requires maturity. If D wants to research the requirements and start arranging to get her permit/driving lessons, etc., that’s something she needs to do and she hasn’t.</p>
<p>^ I’m with you 3girls. My daughter wants to drive, and she did all the research. Found out when DMV is open late, researched what documents to bring etc. So far she is cruising along on the side streets while I pray she does not hit a mailbox. She goes on main roads with the instructor- not with me- my car is not equipped with a passenger side brake. It’s going to be a long summer!! Meanwhile today she noticed a " ball of gum" in her mouth where her wisdom tooth should eventually be. There is also one on the other side, but smaller. My older one did not have this- all her teeth were impacted!! I panicked a little because I had no clue what this was, although I thought it might be her wisdom teeth coming in. I took her to my brother- in- law ( dentist) who told me this was normal, and that her wisdom teeth are coming in. This seems to be the summer of wisdom teeth!</p>
So now he gets to take the test and finally get his permit. We’re not in a hurry, though, because he needs to be able to help pay for insurance. My oldest son paid for all of his costs but he had a good job. My 16 yo is starting to busk (street perform) with another cellist for a little bit of cash but otherwise, has no work right now.</p>