Parents of the HS Class of 2017 (Part 1)

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QOTD: Thinking about it. The only thing that comes to mind that my D always use to say that was odd was: “That’s racist!”. Anytime anyone (OK, it was usually me) said anything she felt was related to her heritage, she would tell me “That’s racist!”. Well, no, it’s not…but it might be rude. Calling her “short” is not racist. :slight_smile: She’s since grown out of it.

So, for those of you who have kids who are done with ACTs and/or SATs, and have some definite schools picked out, have you sent scores yet? I figure it’s another way of showing interest, but may be crazy. I may have asked this before, if not here somewhere else.

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QOTD: I still don’t understand the conversation between my D13 and D17 when they were very small. D17 did something to D13 and D13 didn’t like it. D13 kept saying, “Stop wynona-riding me! Stop wynona-riding me!” Anybody has any clue?

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It look me forever to catch up today. There is so much going on here. DS is officially a rising senior! <:-P

@mdcmom What a story! Congratulations to your DS!

@nw2this My DS reads graphic novels, comics, and screenplays for fun.

@Mom2aphysicsgeek Good luck on the speech tomorrow!

@greeny8 That really stinks about the final. Maybe the teacher will look at her semester grade and give her some bonus points? Painful. My DS was on the wrong side of the stick in a class this year too.

@srk2017 Congrats to your son for pulling it off and getting those As.

@2muchquan Yes, DS sent in scores for the flagship schools so it would be out of the way. If I could get him to have a list, I would send them all in and be done with it. I got emails from both saying they received his scores. One thing down, so many to go. I love that story.

@dfbdfb What an interesting field! I wonder if my DS would be interested.

Three words: Quirky, curious, stubborn

QOTD: DH, DS and I were driving in the car when he was about three and another driver swerved into our lane, he says, “Look at that askool!” DH says, “Askool? What is that?” DS says, “That’s what mom calls other drivers—ASKOOLS!” I said, “Oh, you mean rascals?” Yeah, I think you can all guess that I don’t call other drivers “rascals”.

I started a new book today. The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison. Strange and dark but so interesting. Anyone else read it yet?

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DS17: Curious, abstract-thinker, considerate (see, it’s one word if you use a hyphen, right?)

DC21: Independent (not always in a good way), alternative, creative

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S17: focused, gamer, happy (always happy)

And we have only sent score to the CB for potential NMSF/NMF verification. I am waiting for the last subject test score and tomorrow’s score to decide if I will send all scores or selectively choose.

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QOTD: funny story: I’ve let DS play computer games from too young for too long… starting with Key whack game on our Mac2si.
He was able to use a mouse to click at 18 months.
“Mommy, mommy, do you want to play with me?”
“Click on me! (pointing to his tummy) if you want to play with me!” :-j
“Mommy, mommy, do you want to play with me, easy, medium or hard?” :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

DS19 loves books. He was looking at picture books (before reading, i.e. before kindergarten) so I offered to read the book to him. He protested. “NO! I am looking at the PICTURES!”
(okay, okay, just wanting to help… I guess he preferred imagining the story to being read the story)

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@2muchquan We used the free score service to send them to a few schools although we are not yet done with testing.
Some folks said to send the scores one month ahead of submitting application (maybe not earlier than that) so we are going to send the scores during August - September.

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D13: dreamer, sensitive, deep thinker, obsessive
D17: dreamer, sensitive, impulsive, quick-witted

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We sent scores to schools my son was interested in so we would get notifications of events they are hosting in the area.

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DS took 2 SAT IIs in June and ACT in September and we thought it’s too early to send. He is taking another SAT II tomorrow for which preparation started yesterday :-), so not sending to any schools. Do you need to pay for each SAT II report separately or one report shows all SAT IIs? He is thinking of taking Spanish in October if he can prep during summer.

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@srk2017 – Unless CB has changed anything (all my knowledge is two years old), CB charges one fee for all SAT I & SAT II scores. Apparently ACT charges for each test date. So my older son took the SAT 3X and subject tests on two different dates. One flat fee charged per university for all five test dates. He would not have reported all three SAT dates were it not for the university’s ‘report all testing history’ policy.

I have to go back and read everything I have missed today. You all have been busy!

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@srk2017, the CB does allow you to send all of the test information for one cost (one cost per school you’re sending it to that is). You may also use their “score choice” feature and cherry pick the scores that you want to send to a school if they do not require all of the scores. We did that with D15, although I would have to get back on the CB website to remember how to do it. Since S17’s school list does not include any “all scores” school, we will likely be choosing. Although I am not sure if it wouldn’t be good to send one old SAT and one new SAT score since he will have one of each. Some of his schools don’t want the subject tests.

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Three words. Relentless, genuine, creative.

Moody, combative, warmhearted, loyal, temperamental, altruistic, political, quarrelsome, funny, energetic, intense, sweet, thoughtful, artistic, bold, fearless.

Exhausting.

I really wish I could think of a funny, quirky or brilliant statement and all that comes to mind is when he was about 8 or so he told me to **“talk to the hand” **while holding up his hand to stop me from speaking!

It didn’t go over all that well.

Yeah…

I thought we had a brag sheet template but we do not, just a suggested resume outline. Which S started a year ago and hasn’t touched. However it does look like he has noted 3 teachers he thinks know him best and while it’s not an official LOR request it was definitely filled in this year given who he picked. I agree with his list although I’ve no clue how good they are at LOR’s.

I admit, I did add one of those noted by @MotherOfDragons yesterday to the ignore list. Though predictable and supremely annoying, I chose ignore largely to keep myself from responding as it is so tempting (yet pointless). There is another one likely to follow soon but definitely not on this thread.

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QOTD: Nothing springs to mind from my oldest, but the 15-year-old is so incredibly like her aunt (my younger sister) in so many ways that it’s amazing—even to the point that her grandparents (my parents) have commented on how frequently they both say “Wait, I don’t get it” at the dinner table, but so sweetly and innocently that you can’t help but take it as a compliment for your latest joke.

Three adjectives:[ul][]D17: Driven, neurotic, responsible
[]D19: Self-assured, poised, creative
[]D23: Perceptive, sociopathic, charismatic
[]D25: Sarcastic, unfiltered, thick-skinned[/ul]
And I do mean sociopathic quite seriously for D23. We tell her not infrequently that part of our job as parents is to make sure those tendencies get channeled into good and not evil—and yes, at times we semi-joke that she’s going to end up doing amazing work for Doctors Without Borders, or she’s going to be a serial killer. One or the other, they both fit her—so yeah, no pressure on us, not at all.

And of course, regarding the youngest, if you’re gonna be the first two on her list, I suppose that you could do worse than be the third for when it inevitably gets turned back on you.

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Not every school needs the best scores. We have always listed several state schools for every test taken since there are 4 free scores are available per test. Some of them sent free applications in return.

There are also schools that require every score to be turned in for SAT and ACT (not necessarily SAT II).

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@2muchquan I think DS is done with testing. (He’s signed up for the June 11 ACT, but I think we’ll cancel.) No, I haven’t sent any scores anywhere yet. I will probably send them in August or September.

QOTD: When DS was little, he would insist that he was not a person but was a woodpecker, like the acorn woodpeckers we have here. He doesn’t remember that anymore.

When he was about 12-14 months old, he suddenly became afraid of the moon. If the moon was out when I carried him in from the car at night, he would struggle to get out of my arms and away from it. A few months later after he could talk more, I asked him why the moon was scary. He said, “Moon changes!!” I told him it was OK, it was just a shadow on the moon. After that, he was totally OK with seeing the moon.

Also, I don’t usually share the following, but I can’t decide if I should put one in the Parent Essay in Naviance, and if so which one.

When he was about 3 he asked, “How does ‘take away’ work?” So, I drew him a number line to show him subtraction. He said, “OK, but what numbers are between the dots? And what is on the other side of zero?”

At age 4 1/2 he asked, “If you divide infinity into two piles, what is in each pile?" We replied “Each pile still has infinity.” He concluded, “Yes, that’s right. And since both infinities are the same, infinity is even.”

In 1st grade, he watched the PBS series “The Elegant Universe” by Brian Greene. He wanted to know whether a photon gets older, since it is moving at the speed of light.

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@2muchquan We’re using the ACT freebies from this upcoming go 'round (6/11 test) to send to Ds safety schools, as they charge per send otherwise. Were too nervous to do that for her first ACT because of uncertainty as to how she would do, but given that she got a 33 on the first one, it seems likely she’ll be in that ballpark (hopefully higher, at least in science!) so decided to use the freebies for places she’s way above the 75th percentile.

QOTD: Before she really understood jokes (like 4 years old), D17 used to tell really Dadaesque non-jokes and follow up with a “get it??” Like: “Mom, if trees had wheels, they’d be stop signs! Get it??” And I was always so perplexed, lol, like was I supposed to play along, or gently inform her that no, I didn’t get it… When I remind her of that now, she just buries her head in her hands. She’s definitely the comedian of her friend group though. They call her “a walking sit-com”.

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Wait… Do the parents write an essay too?

@Ynotgo thank you for these beautiful anecdotes! He sounds so precious!

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@“What???!!” There’s a parent essay on our Naviance brag sheet. It’s mainly for the GC and LOR writers.

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I’m loving the 3-4 adjectives! So many of your kids sound like wonderful, interesting people!