<p>Alverno College
Antioch College (Letter grades are provided to student upon request)
Antioch University
Bennington College (Letter grades are available in addition to narrative evaluations upon request on a per course basis)
Bard College (Students are given both letter grades and written comments via “criteria sheets” given mid-term and end-of-term)
Brown University (Narrative course performance report optionally given in addition to letter grade)
Burlington College (Students are provided an option for traditional transcripts.)
College of the Atlantic (Allows you to opt out of receiving letter grades)
The Evergreen State College (Letter/number grades are never used)
Fairhaven College, Western Washington University
Goddard College (Letter/number grades are never used)
Hampshire College (Letter/number grades are never used for Hampshire students; students in the Five College interchange can get letter grades when their home institution requires it)
Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, University of Redlands</p>
<p>My D has asked me to check her scores and text her when I know. I really hope she does well so I don’t have to be the bearer of disappointing news.</p>
<p>For those of you who have access to Naviance, some kids here are reporting that they can see their scores tonight on their Naviance account. Don’t know if that’s true or not but I thought I’d pass that along. (D’s school doesn’t have Naviance.)</p>
<p>Best wishes to those getting scores back tomorrow (or I guess maybe tonight) and to those whose kids are taking the GRE.</p>
<p>College Board sends the scores to the school and the GCs enter the scores onto Naviance, so I would imagine that it depends on how fast the GCs move. I remember my daughter’s SAT 11 scores were available on College Board at midnight, but I so not know if the same holds true for the regular SAT. </p>
<p>Good luck to all who took the October SAT! I hope you hear good news soon! (And even if it’s not optimal news, remember that there’s always another chance to take it. But it will be good news. )</p>
<p>Last week was a bad week for my DD. She has been complaining to all people around her about how stressed she was this year and how much pressure she feels she is under in order to perform well. This does not necessarily translate into lots of time spent studying (we seem to have the opposite problem than you twogirls) and her grades so far are reasonable (mostly As with 2 Bs) but i guess this feeling of hers is nagging and affecting her overall. Then last week she did the mistake of placing her laptop and notebook on a chair in a classroom, went out for 30 minutes and came back to discover the laptop was stollen. She called me at work and i calmly told her to inform the school and do whatever she can to announce it to the community, but from inside i was really upset at her negligence. I came home and found her in a session with her SAT tutor in preparation for PSAT next week. After the session ended she came and told me that we can cancel buying her a treadmill (which she has been asking us for and we agreed) and if necessary we can cancel her trip to the USA which was supposed to take place next month so she could attend an international meeting for one of her clubs which she is heading (the trip would be paid by us). I told her i will discuss it with her father.</p>
<p>On the one hand i am upset at her negligence and want her to take better care of valuable items. We live in an affluent community and ensuring that my kids understand the true value of money has always been a priority for us. At the same time i am concerned about her stress levels. I know she is feeling awful and guilty about this incident which is adding to an already strained mental state. Should i add to it by punishing her ( no treadmill and no trip to the USA)? Or should i just have a talk to discuss her lapse in judgement, and continue with what we had planned to purchase (treadmill and US trip)?</p>
<p>jazzlandmom – That’s a tough call! I agree that it is important for kids to learn the value of money, so you don’t want to downplay the significance of leaving oneself open to theft. On the other hand, you don’t want to undermine your D’s success in her club leadership, nor deprive her of a valuable opportunity to shine in an international forum. If the USA trip is more “learning experience” than “boondoggle” then I would probably still let her go (provided it is still affordable for your family). I would be more inclined to forgo buying the treadmill, as long as there are other ways she can still maintain her physical fitness.</p>
<p>@shoboemom:
PSAT scores are on a 240 scale so multiplying the score by 10 should roughly predict the SAT score that combines Critical Reading, Math and Writing. However, more strictly speaking, the Writing part of the PSAT is only multiple choice so only compares to the multiple choice portion of the SAT Writing section. The SAT essay included in the SAT Writing score can throw a wrench in the predictability of that part.</p>
<p>Jazzle I am sorry to hear about this. I would let her go . Sometimes when they are very stressed they do things without thinking because there is too much going on. I think this taught her a lesson, although an expensive one. </p>
<p>My kid has two sides to her: the perfectionist, driven kid who does amazing in school and writes up notes that the teachers want to keep for future classes, and the kid who leaves her oboe on the bus, drops her phone so that it shatters ( did this while trying to carry too many books), leaves her new $50 field hockey jacket in her classroom ( we were not sure if it would be there the next day- it was), loses her English folder ( found it two days later), and … Drumroll… Loses her sneakers ( 10th grade). How does one lose sneakers? I have absolutely no clue. They were nowhere to be found. Of course none of these is as expensive as a lap top, but I believe that sometimes the stress they are under contributes to their carelessness. It’s impossible to keep things together so perfectly all the time - something’s gotta give.</p>
<p>The tutor said that only rarely do kids get a 12 ( 6 given by each reader) on the essay. He had 2 students go to Harvard and they each got an 11. He said anything above an 8 on the essay is considered very good. One kid currently goes to Duke and she got a 2 on her first SAT essay- had to take it again. He says these top kids tend to write a lot and they don’t finish- that’s the biggest problem. Pace yourself, keep it short ( not too short- use the whole paper ) and finish. </p>
<p>He told a story of a kid who went to a PR class and took a baseline test , and then had another test 2 weeks later and the parents were told that the kid jumped 500 points. The parents were new to this and believed it. He told another story of a tutoring company in my neighborhood that gives a baseline test and then a few weeks later gives another test but scores it differently- does not take off 1/4 point for each wrong answer during the second round of testing. Looks like the kids score went up. He saw the test and figured it out. </p>
<p>Buyer be aware- he says there are honest companies out there- just do your homework to find them.</p>
<p>Workload for junior year has been similar to soph year, maybe even a little less. Last year she had an English teacher from hell and that pita gave more work than was necessary for an honors-level class. Also, she had AP Art History last year which was an incredible amount of index cards every week. This year doesn’t seem to be as stressful as last year. Of course we are still 2 weeks from the end of the quarter so things will get ramped up with exams next week.</p>
<p>SAT scores are in! D did very well, but got pretty burned by the essay. She did no prep for that, so I guess that’s to be expected. She is a little bummed about that - it probably pulled her Writing score down by about 40 points. It looks like the CR curve was generous and the M curve was harsh. I think she is done with the SAT though! Hope those who took it are pleased with their results!</p>
<p>Yay! Congrats to your daughter on putting the SAT in her rear view mirror! My son did the same thing with the ACT. My dilemma is that I already signed him up to take the second sitting. I just really expected him to need it. So I guess it’s just going to be money down the drain. I mean, he could score higher - he didn’t get a 36. But I don’t see a compelling reason to take the blooming test again. Wish I had waited to register for the second one until after getting the scores back.</p>
<p>You know, I’m assuming she’s done with the SAT, but maybe she will want to take it again to fix the essay score. We have no context to figure out whether this is a good score for her or not honestly. She’s got 4 tests today, so she wasn’t too concerned one way or the other with this yet.</p>
<p>Yes, she was signed up to take the ACT on Saturday but she asked me (before the SAT results came in) if she could hold off because she doesn’t feel ready. I think that’s a good idea, because she will take it with writing and she needs to work on that! She’ll probably wait until February to take it, because the December date is right in the middle of exams for her.</p>
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