Last night at the last minute I decided to go watch my son’s indoor track meet. I normally don’t go to the night time meets, they last a long time. Anyways, glad I went. Son set 2 school records in events he never does! So that was pretty cool, some of the records had been standing for a while. The coaches were so happy. They must be stat nerds:) , lol.
Congratulations @RightCoaster <:-P Now you will have to go to more meets :))
Early apps have jumped in the neighborhood of 10-15% at a number of desirable schools. If the schools hold close to a particular number of early acceptances, naturally there will be more deferrals than in past years. I’m not sure what to think about it all. (My D’s plan will probably involve EA at every school on her list that offers it, but no ED.) It’ll be interesting to see whether RD numbers go down, if the early numbers reflect strategy decisions, or whether the the early numbers reflect an overall increase. Any guesses? Admission uncertainty just keeps increasing!
S19 will have taken 3 APs too. He took AP Chem, is taking AP Calc BC, and will take AP Physics C next year.
He was bummed that he was not allowed in AP USH this year. String of B’s in english & history classes will do that. 
S17 took 9 APs - Human Geo (9th), Gov&Pol (10th), USH, Psych, Lang, Lit, Chem, Calc BC, Physics C.
First semester complete! Finished BC Calc final five minutes ago and is getting changed to go out for a run with friends. Bring on 17 days of sleeping and playing!
Tomorrow is the last day of school for the year. We are leaving on our vacation mid-morning. We gave the kid the option to take entirely off of school that day, but he wants us to pick him up from 2nd period because they’re doing Secret Santa and he doesn’t want to miss seeing whether his friend likes his present (some nice chocolates)
@dfbdfb I think my d’s rolling application can be submitted in August and she should hear back quickly. It will be nice to have that in hand early on for sure.
My S19 pulled his grades out. i cannot believe it!!! especially in APUSH. Went from an 84 at one point, to a 91. If his AP comp sci teacher decides to be nice, she will up him from a 88.9 to 89.5 or higher to get him to the “90”. So the question becomes in college admissions, does a bunch of 90/91’s UW count as a 3.5, or do they count as A’s. i could never get the GPA thing. his transcript shows a composite UW of 89 /94W at the end of sophomore year. But if you take each grade on its own, for example, this semester, could way that he got a 4.0?
in any case, I will take a 90 over an 89 any time . he got all A;s on all the midterms. I just wish he put in this effort all year.
now for a nice 2 week break.
Any A (90% or higher) translates to a 4, a B (80.0% to 89.9%)to a 3. Then adding it all . That sum divided by (4number of courses) is the UW GPA.
For W GPA add 1 point to the AP/ CE courses ( a 90% would be a 5, 83% would be a 4 for those), and you divide the sum by the same number as the UW (4 number of courses)
That is not the way it works at our school. You must have above a 93 to get an A which is a 4.0. A 90 would be an A- which is a 3.7.
I guess it depends on the school district: http://www.hcpss.org/f/board/policies/8020.pdf
@C.L. It is very much dependent on the school district. Our state has a uniform scale formal of the public schools in the state. They recently went from a 7 point scale to a 10 point scale to be more consistent with the surrounding states , and make our students competive for admission and scholarships with their peers in surrounding states.
S19 just woke up to go running and checked his email. (Do your kids check their email? S19 is not consistent. I have to remind him all of the time!) Found an email from his calc teacher congratulating him on pulling out an A for the semester. He was on the A-/B+ border in that class and needed a solid A on the final. Guess that ten hour shift of calc studying worked! So happy for him. Straight As this semester. He worked so hard and I’m so glad it paid off for him.
First semester of sophomore year, he was on the border in two classes and, even though he studied his butt off for those finals, he missed As in both classes by .1 percent. It was a total bummer. He really wanted this BC grade to fall in his favor this time and it was nice of his teacher to reach out with the good news.
@homerdog: congrats on the grades! Nice of the teacher to go above and beyond! My S18 checks his email daily now (because of college info), but didn’t when he was a junior. It’s been a very recent thing.
My d does check her emails most days.
DD checks school email daily, personal email almost never. I think she is only at school today for the cheerleader gift exchange afterwards! The actual school day is goof off today.
Signed her up for February ACT last night. Was going to have her take it at her sister’s community college but it was full so we are doing it closer to home. Maybe sister will be home that weekend anyway, depends on work schedule. Choosing 4 colleges to send scores to was the hard part. Not that it commits you to anything but it made her think about what her top 4 might be. We ended up with two of her choice and two of mine. Any I suggest she’ll say, “Oh there was something I didn’t like about that school, I forget what” (just based on their website). Well honey if you can get full tuition we’re going to visit anyway. Oh there is one that had really good merit but it’s 9 hours away of course she wanted that one. Can’t wait to get those ACT scores so we’ll know more about merit and can use that to decide where to visit.
Currently her AP class says 82.5% (B). I’m not sure if everything has been graded. If so, will be the first B for her.
She is excited because she found out yesterday the TAG teacher is starting an independent study seminar next semester, so she plans to put off her online college class to next year and use this TAG class to explore the majors she is considering.
At our school 90-92 is an A- and 93 and up is an A. No A plus grades which is weird since they give kids the minus…
Son kind of gets screwed by this a bit here and there, as he often has 98-100 but does not get an A= and sometimes has a 92 so gets an A- on report card. I think if you actually have the ability fo score between 97-100 in a class you should get the A+
School is out now, house is now filled with boys goofing around in the basement. They were supposed to have a Winter Ball tonight but it got rescheduled due to snow/ice, the kids are kind of bummed.
Hope everyone enjoys their holidays!!
What do I have to do to get D to check her email?! I beg her to check it at least once a day. I linked her school email (some Google thing) to her gmail, and still she won’t check it. I tell her email is how businesses operate, and to get with the program! I have to text her to tell her to read a certain email if I think it’s important. Ugh.
Sorry to hear about the @RightCoaster winter ball postponement. Now I remember that last May S17’s class planned camping the day before graduation on school grounds but it started snow hard. The camp out turned into sleep over.
Yay for winter break! D19 has two chapters in APUSH notes and some AP Lang, but the rest of the stuff is odds and ends so hopefully she can have a little free time before January 2.
I don’t think any NY publics do letter grades. It’s only percentages, which is probably both a good and bad thing. The good is no scrambling to get an extra .000something % to get the next letter up like I read about here and the bad is there is no hiding exactly what you earned in a class. A 93% is not the same as a 96%, 99% or 100% here.