@petricho11, we are going thru similar trials in our house. Replace English class with AP Calculus and we are there. Very stressful.
I feel so hopeless when I have to rely on other people! None of the recommenders submitted LOR. Interviewer from one of the EA schools does not reply on request for an interview. None of the essays are completed. SAT subject tests results coming out this night and if she did not score as we hope she did she will need to take November test and this will move one of her EA schools to RD. I hope our school does not send quarter grades (we are on semester system), because I do not remember last time DD had so many Bs on her 10 weeks report card.
I suspect lots and lots of seniors have an unusual number of Bs on their reports cards right now. My Dâ16 is holding at her usual grades overall, but some are lower than I would like. I keep telling her an 85 you need to maintain an 85 or about in everything. AP Micro Econ was an 83 and AP Eng Lit an 82. I am not happy because she is definitely slacking⊠and I can only imagine what is going to happen come March/April. âYou have to get back on the Study Wagon girlfriendâ.
@ballerina2016 this is the FIRST time my daughter has ever had a âbâ. She is not happy. Fun times!!
@Ballerina2016 and @Sophmore1 oh my - can relate - going from a straight âAâ student his whole high school career - to Bâs and maybe even a âCâ right now in AP Calc BC - we are freaking out. Hoping it doesnât hurt the potential scholarship offers.
@laroyri and @Ballerina2016 she would not be so upset but has always wanted valedictorian. It is important to her. This may knock her out. Her school figures GPA/Rank so oddly that those with less upper level classes can swoop it up. Not too fair.
Those are not final marks yet. She had Bs on those intermediate report cards before. Hopefully she will be able to pull it off this time as well. I just did not know that somebody might want to see intermediate marks. Hope it is not the case at our school. Will have DD check with her GC today.
I can so relate to everyoneâs concerns about their typical A student hovering lower than expected or want to be. We are going through similar situations and to boot my D has been very sick for the last few days and just missed 2 days from school and wondering if she will be able to make it in tomorrow. To make matters worse I am not sure if interim progress reports go to the schools she is applying. Even though she has been sick, she is doing mid 90âs in her AP Literature class but the teacher writes on her progress report âworking better than SatisfactoryââŠreallyâŠcould he not choose a better prompt to put in? That sounds terrible for a mid to high 90âs student. Sometimes these little things just aggravate me to no end. Grrrrr.
DD has never been a straight A student and she never wanted to be. We are a little bit relaxed to think about 1st quarter grade which will be available late Nov, so I think the colleges she applied may decide their decision without 1st quarter grade.
@Ballerina2016 I wish CC had an âunderstandâ button. So many people need to do their part to make this whole college admissions thing work. The chances for something to go wrong somewhere seems inevitable. Hang in there!
@lonetreegrad We do not use Naviance. I was using my sonâs wording of âadd a teacherâ, which wasnât the exact wording used on common app. I just looked up a site that shows screenshots of the common app and gives direction about how to do each section. It states "After Inviting your teacher as a Recommender, you must now Assign him/her to each college you want his/her Teacher Evaluation form and recommendation letter sent to. I think my son was referring to assigning the teacher(s) to each college after they have initially been invited to be a recommender.
I empathize with so many comments above, @laroyri, @labegg, and others! DD16 worked very hard on her grades for the past three years, but she just seems distracted this quarter. Not senioritis, just lack of focus. I think she will pull it out in the next week before the quarter ends and end up with straight As, but itâs been a nail-biter.
A tradition at freshman move-in weekend at Emory (S14âs a sophomore) for many years has been a talk by one of the senior (and very wise) professors of psychology, delivered to the parents shortly before theyâre about to say their good-byes and go home. Itâs a wonderful talk, filled with humor and much wisdom. Iâll post a link to a copy of it next fall when weâre all at that point.
One topic he addresses is in regards to kids who are got straight Aâs in high school, but who will undoubtedly get not only some Bâs in college, but maybe even a C. Some kids (and parents) apparently really do fall apart when this happens. Well, this was certainly not a worry for S14, and is not a worry for S16 either. Both of them lost their grade virginity long ago (S14 repeatedly).
Ugh!! SAT site is down.
Just got our scoresâŠVERY HAPPY!!! @AsleepAtTheWheel thanks for the moral support and you were so right.
Congrats! @Mysonsdad
My son got his Physics score as well 
790! Which almost made him laugh and cry at the same time, so close 
Thank you and congrats to your S, 790 is quite an impressive score especially for physics. My S got 800 on math 2 and Bio E. Itâs funny because he didnât want to take AP Bio and throughout high school he kept telling the AP Bio teacher that she was never going to have him. Once he found out that her class was the only AP class left he could take I suggested he take the SAT Bio exam. I guess this is the silver lining in the cloud.
Wow for your son!
Heâs gonna rock those college apps
Congrats toe everyone who is happy with their scores today. Your kids worked hard and are reaping the benefits of their efforts.
At our house SAT II scores are not where she hoped theyâd be. Sheâs disappointed but not heart broken. I really wish schools posted middle 50%s for subject tests. I donât want to sound fatalistic and I donât want to fall into the CC trap believing only 800 will get you in (and everyone gets that 800 except you)⊠but I canât help but wonder how many of her reaches should come off her list. I would never mention that to her but I will spend part of today looking at some other schools to give her some more choices. I wonder what sheâll think once it sinks in.
@MuggleMom Maybe taking a different test? Not everyone likes the same subjects.
For example, my son took Bio E back in June and did not do as well, 730. He is more of a Physics guy.
Why donât you try another science?