I think bulk of the Jefferson winners are in state also.
@CA1543 The double space is not incorrect. I think that is a matter of preference. In my field it’s standard practice as is full justified and I don’t see that changing any time soon. But try retraining the youngsters who have been taught that it’s incorrect. I’m pulling my hair out. :))
@Collegecue Thanks! And congrats to your son as well! But year, both D and I are like, show us the money. :))
Safeties - We are assuming nothing and taking nothing for granted. So D has 2 great safeties. She’d be thrilled to go to either and both are very affordable. The kids that are usually disappointed in the spring are those without a safety they really love and/or no real choices they are excited about. At least 2 safeties makes for a happier spring, imo
OK Did the Common App interface change. I thought before when I chose a College it showed a page with needed items and their status with dates downloaded. The whole Green Check/Yellow Dot discussion we had previously. I can’t find that now.
UMD-CP Update
As of this morning, son’s status page is finally complete!
Not for nothing, but they had all his supporting docs and material since Oct 14.
@STEM2017 – wow. That took a LONG time. Son finally submitted UMD last night but no word from them other than acknowledging receipt. Thanks to you, I now know how long this can take, and your son applied before the deadline crush.
@hadmeathello - DD is tweaking the CA for each school she applies to so the Jefferson will only be mentioned for UVA. Even though she hasn’t submitted the application yet, her counselor has already submitted the recommendations, transcript, and school profile.
My freshman failed her last pre-calc test and not being able to see it is killing me. I want to know what’s going on, she’s always aced math up to now. Ifs she slow and not finishing (I suspect this) or does she not understand the concept? I would drop her down if that was the case. Arrrgh. Yes, tests are in a vault somewhere and none shall pass, She is allowed to see it during after school tutoring hours only. Which are hard for her to make due to cross country.
I minored in math. I can help her. But seeing would be oh so much better.
@VickiSoCal Strange that she cannot see her test at her convenience. How do we learn from our mistakes if we cannot see our mistakes?
Many of my son’s teachers demand that students do test corrections and hand them in. And if those corrections are, um, correct (and I mean perfect), the student can earn back half of the points lost from the mistakes.
She can do corrections, but only in his classroom at that time. CC season ends today so she’s going tomorrow.
I’ve purposefully restrained from commenting on the formatting and spacing questions since I’ve learned to be less rigid in my thinking. But, @dfbdfb is right on all counts. Well, except maybe Baskerville. I like Baskerville but I like a lot of others too and I can remember using comic sans in my young and foolish days.
Congratulations on the scholarship/scholar notifications and nominations. And here’s wishing some clearer teaching practices for all our DC.
Seems like the rigid rules ought to be bent in your daughter’s situation.
I hate the new test rules at schools. It’s laziness in my opinion. The teachers don’t want to make enough versions of tests and want to reuse. We always took tests home back in the day.
@dfbdfb, I had to change all of the use of “grey” to “gray” in my Master thesis because I was not in Brittan (and I used grey a lot). I also had change my thesis by adding the second terminal space at the end of the sentence (the dawn of word processors), so now I am trained to automatically double space after a sentence. It would be hard to stop. I am a fan and user of the Oxford comma.
Not being able to see a blown test really irriatates me too. For S '20, he really messed up his first math test and I have no idea why. He did B-/C+ ish on the two leading quizes, but failed the first test. Part of it was his first exposure to homework where the answer key is provided along with the problems. Self-discipline is not his strongest suit.
I think the reason teachers don’t let students keep old tests is because they re-use them. Charitably, I guess this ensures consistency from year to year. Less charitably, I suppose it is much less work. I’m not a teacher so I could be missing something entirely. Maybe they want to ensure the student comes in for help?
I always wonder if they consider the case of S '14 who has what I call an “intermittently eidetic” memory. It’s been 4 years, but I asked him to recall some problems from his Calc BC final. He remembered a few exactly and many approximately. Of course, D '17 would never ask because she would think it’s cheating.
And she’d have to ask her brother for help. Cue Marlon Brandon from Apocolypse Now, “The horror… The horror”.
Shame S’20 is on a different math track…
We have had this issue as well in certain classes. It makes it pretty difficult to assess what it is the student is not understanding and focus studying efforts. Especially in classes like AP chem where S17 never got a single test back until a few days before the AP exam. His math teacher is awesome about getting exams back quickly and also gives partial credit for making all corrections. AP Physics and AP chem almost never gives back an exam at our school.
speaking of teachers not giving tests back on time, my nephew confronted a teacher about it i.e. told her that she is not doing her job and my brother got a call from the teacher. That was me exactly in high school but where I studied we don’t need teachers LORs. =))
I wish my son’s teacher would let them correct their mistakes and get a few bonus points back on a bombed test. My son got a D on his first pre-calc test, but other scores have been B range. He’s still going to be lucky to get a C in the class. He’s gone in for extra help numerous times and says he get it now. But the damage has been done, and it’s stinky timing. 1st crummy grade ever, right before apps go in.Ugghhh. If I was a teacher with a senior who was struggling but making a truly solid effort I would find a way to help the kid out grade wise. Not just give the kid a grade, but maybe offer some extra work, extra credit, retake, something. He’s not competing for a valedictorian spot anyways, ha.
It seems incredibly lazy for a teacher not to create new test questions, especially so in math…this from someone whose parents were both school teachers. You can learn immensely from seeing your mistakes.
Regarding the Jefferson…seems rather unpredictable from what I know. S14’s classmate was chosen as school’s Jefferson candidate, did get chosen for the interview portion of the selection process, then dropped. No matter, he won the Robertson, promptly to turn it down and matriculate at Harvard. Spin the wheel and see where she lands… X_X
My S17’s doing OK in everything except AP Physics. He’s doing great is AP CS. I think it’s mostly that there is a TON of homework in both CS & Physics. Of course my definition of great is different than others. 
It’s just that he has matured so much since freshman year and it doing a lot better on turning in homework so his grades are a lot better. 
I’m totally with you @RightCoaster on teachers figuring out a way for struggling seniors who are putting in the effort to to make up lost ground. They are kids for pete’s sake. I probably shouldn’t say this but our boy is doing pretty good so far this year. Thank goodness. It’s nice not to have to play catch up for a change. Let’s hope it holds.
And I am glad we get our tests back! Not being able to review what you got wrong kind of undermines the whole purpose of test in my opinion. Too much work indeed.