<p>@3girl3cats, Thanks for that input. Taking Vassar off the list since it was just a sorta maybe school anyway and putting Brown on the list. Last year I took D13 to visit Pomona and I loved that school. Unfortunately it wasn’t urban enough for D who ended up at NYU.</p>
<p>This is D’15’s second year at boarding school, and my 5th year as a boarding school parent, though in reality it’s more “boarding school lite” since both girls have come home almost all weekends. We live about 45 minutes away.</p>
<p>It was a big difference when D’12 went off to college. For one thing, when she’s home it’s her vacation time. For another, packing for a semester is really different from packing for 10 days. I haven’t been involved in either girl’s packing for a while. We communicate differently with our college student as well.</p>
<p>D’s school starts next Monday, she still doesn’t have the full schedule yet! The reason is she signed up for 4 APs and French 4, they’re in conflict! 
Don’t know what to do. anybody ran into problems like this?</p>
<p>herandhismom – That’s precisely what D has been dealing with this week – all of the schedule conflicts. It should be worked out by the end of today.</p>
<p>A boarding school environment that allows a child to come home every week or so sounds ideal to me. If we were still on the east coast there’s one I would have considered very seriously that would have worked that way.</p>
<p>Muf, to be fair, Vassar is beautiful and offers a fantastic liberal arts education. It could be a great fit for the right person. I also feel that the info sessions are highly variable depending on who is presenting. We were unlucky at Vassar and Tufts. But on the flip side, everyone seems to love Brown and that can’t be a coincidence. </p>
<p>Herandhismom, we run into scheduling problems like this every single year. It seems that my kids always have classes that don’t mesh. All you have to do is choose one class that meets in only one slot or be out of sequence and presto, you have a conflict somewhere.</p>
<p>Back in the stone age Brown and Vassar were my top choices. One waitlisted me and one gave me a very generous FA package so the choice was easy :)</p>
<p>D began school today, though it feels like she’s been there all month with volleyball and meetings of various kinds re: peer tutoring (she is one this year), helping with freshman orientation, etc etc. </p>
<p>I didn’t take a picture and today my FB feed is full of back to school pictures :(</p>
<p>Does anyone’s school put the class schedule online? Tomorrow, going to orientation where they hand out schedules. Usually there’s a problem. Then you have to stand on a long line to see a guidance counselor who has to start from scratch and figure out what’s possible. Would be easier if we could see the possibilities and present the counselor with a schedule that works.</p>
<p>Our school mails the schedules out at the end of this week and puts them on line starting Monday. If we don’t get the schedule by Friday I will be heading to the post office bright and early Saturday morning to pick up my mail- we won’t be home because we are driving my daughter back to school. My junior will be mad if schedules come Saturday and she is not home to get it. Last year I recall also going to the PO to get my mail because rumor had it that schedules were coming on the day we were leaving for college. Then she sits in the car for 3 hours comparing schedules and seeing who is in her classes.</p>
<p>D has had her schedule since June or July. </p>
<p>In the spring she was given a master schedule and a form to fill out with her requests. Having the master schedule in hand, she knew X class wouldn’t be possible to take with Y class because there is only one section offered and they meet at the same time, or whatever. So she adjusted based on what was available. There were no surprises in her schedule.</p>
<p>When I was in HS myself, at a small private, we scheduled ourselves like college students did, by filling out what we wanted on a blank schedule, options given in a course catalog/master schedule of sorts, and waiting in line at tables for each class until the class was full.</p>
<p>D’s HS does it by computer. I have never heard of a kid wanting to take a particular class and not getting it.</p>
<p>HerandHisMom, schedule conflicts are a problem here too. Good luck.</p>
<p>D14 has 14 slots (7 periods, 2 semesters). Of the 18 classes she chose, 16 have only one section. After several conversations she has 10 slots filled, with 4 that are still up in the air.</p>
<p>D14 tried to handle the conflicts herself, but she left 5 days later without a response from the administration. That leaves me to straighten it out while she is intermittently contactable 5 time zones away. Deep breaths… School starts next week.</p>
<p>OHMomof2, how I wish we had access to the master schedule!</p>
<p>D15 was much luckier, with only one class to change. She’s all set.</p>
<p>I am liking our GC more and more as the weeks go by. She saw the conflict on my D’s schedule back in June. She found my D during Regents week and spoke to her about what to do. Then she called me to discuss it to make sure I was ok with it. At the time I really wasn’t bc she was supposed to take 4 AP’s and she got dropped down to 3. But D is so happy with the class she picked up so I’m over it. I only know of one kid who could get 4 AP’s worked into their schedule at our school. </p>
<p>Now that schedules are up on the parent portal I see that most GC’s just stuck kids in random classes. I’m so happy that didn’t happen to us. Could be because AP’s have summer work so they really do need to be worked out in June.</p>
<p>Our school does almost everything on the parent portal. Schedule and report cards aren’t even mailed anymore.</p>
<p>Our school does everything by mail and the parent portal. I have to give the GC credit as well- back in June he found a conflict with an elective ( my daughter did not even want this elective- not sure why she agreed to it). He called my daughter in and they dropped the elective and added a writing course ( elective). I am not anticipating any problems when the schedules arrive- fingers crossed!</p>
<p>Wow, knew your schedule in June. At my kid’s school they just dump it on them with only a few days to go before school. And then there’s a big scramble. Supposedly, they respect course requests filed in the spring, but last year his initial schedule bore only a partial resemblance to expectations. There’s a new principal so maybe she’ll be receptive to rationalizing the system. </p>
<p>But this is the baby of the family. After 2015, we get to be grumpy old people complaining about taxes going to schools where our kids don’t attend. (But I’ll try to be public spirited about it, in reality.)</p>
<p>We do not know the schedules in June- we only know the classes that they will be taking because they try and work out the conflicts before the school year ends. We don’t find out their schedule and teachers until about two weeks before school begins. This one is also the baby of the family latichever- let’s hope that we do not turn into grumpy old people LOL!!</p>
<p>Schedules were available about 2 weeks ago on-line. But the earliest it could get fixed was today. And it was! It was! (At least first semester. There are still many issues for second semester.)</p>
<p>Schedules are sent home in mid-July here. D is trying to resolve a conflict so that she can take orchestra along with her other classes but she’s otherwise happy with her schedule. Last year, she was closed out of an elective writing class because she had other classes that were only offered in one time slot and conflicted with that class. </p>
<p>Latichever, our 2015er is also the baby of the family but we are already old grumpy people. Sad but true!</p>
<p>Schedules available one week before school starts, and then it’s a mad scramble with long lines to see the GC for any requested changes.</p>
<p>D15 is my older - have a D18 that I get to go through with this all over again! D15 is already very stressed with the workload, just 6 days in. I’m worried about her, since she rarely stresses out about school. I’m hoping things smooth out soon.</p>
<p>We got a copy of the master schedule last year when trying to re-arrange the Spring schedule. It was such a luxury to be able to sit and plan everything and then present the changes, rather than picking the classes and hoping for the best. I realize they can’t make a master plan until they know how many classes they need to offer and who’s taking them and so forth, but once the schedules are out, I don’t know why they don’t just put the master list online so that students can plan a couple of different options. This year, they taped the schedule to the guidance center window on the first day of open house. We took a picture of it so we could refer back to it later. It saved me from irritating the GC with constant emails until the final schedule was hammered out.</p>
<p>We don’t get a master schedule but so many kids post their schedules on twitter, Instagram and Facebook, it’s pretty easy to figure out what periods all the classes are offered. We also don’t get schedules until 2 weeks before school but they work out most of the classes beforehand.</p>
<p>Our county’s board of ed has a policy that if a class a student want to take conflicts with other classes, or if that class is not offered in school, she may take it online if it’s available. It’ll be done in one class period in school. One teacher will supervise her. so we are pursuing that. Maybe she can either take AP world or AP econ (micro) online. So for now, they put her in a world history class. it’s not even a honors class, since they know she’ll be there for at most 3 days. Hopefully she will get online soon, because she went to that class during “back to school” night and said she couldn’t stand the people in the class and felt sorry for that teacher. :p</p>