Can you provide a link to the GT supplement for the upcoming year? I looked on their admissions page but could not locate it.
@Creaky U. South Carolina, Notre Dame, Syracuse have all stated they were doing something similar. The idea is to do away with all breaks, and send them home at Thanksgiving and not have them come back until Spring semester. ND is going to be completely done at Thanksgiving whereas USC and the Cuse is going to have a few days of online and finals online after Thanksgiving
@yearstogo here is the suplament
https://admission.gatech.edu/first-year/personal-essays
Georgia Tech Short Answer Question for 2020 Application
Additionally, you will be asked to respond to the prompt below. For the 2020 Application, we have decided to ask only one additional prompt. We hope that will save you just a bit of time as you work through our application.
Why do you want to study your chosen major at Georgia Tech, and how do you think Georgia Tech will prepare you to pursue opportunities in that field after graduation? (max 300 words)
After seeing how AP was handled and the unknown of how the fall will be, anyone else considering DE for next year? D21 went through the application process- the classes are already built to be online. Her APs for next year would be English Lit, Stat and Psychology.
Found this info on the CB website.
Fall 2020 SAT Dates
August 29
September 26
October 3
November 7
December 5
Registration for these administrations will open later this week. Students will be emailed on the evening of Thursday, May 28 with more information. Eligible students can register with a fee waiver.
@jeneric ā dual enrollment is great, and they esp. have very good transfer within UNC campuses.
One thing to remember is that dual enrollment grades stick with you. For example, if youāre applying to grad school you have to submit a transcript for any college attended, including dual enrollment courses from a community college while still in HS.
Not trying to imply itās a bad idea ā just a little PSA that the grades do matter longer than any particular HS grade.
Just got word that teachers have the copies of students responses for the AP exams.
Ughā¦S21ās APUSH teacher just emailed me to tell me that his test isnāt showing up. Iām hoping she has confused something in the results she got (or that College Board did and she will get it straightened out).
He was originally registered for two tests (the other being AP Gov), but we cancelled the AP Gov one in March just before the whole COVID effect on AP exams started. So he only took the APUSH test. She emailed to say she got his AP Gov essay (not possible since he wasnāt registered for it anymore, never got a ticket for it, and didnāt take it) and got a list of her other students who took the APUSH one along with their essays but not his. I sent her his confirmation screenshot and told her to double check whether she somehow misread things and thought she was seeing his Gov essay when, in fact, it was his APUSH essay (as he didnāt write or submit a Gov essay which she seems to think she has). It seems that either that has to be the case or that somehow College Board has misfiled his test (which would be so strange) as being for AP Gov.
He did not sign up for a retake and doesnāt intend to take one. Yet this is his one and only AP score to help validate his homeschool transcript, so itās pretty important in his case. I keep hitting refresh on my email in hopes that she will have gotten back to me to tell me she just misread thingsā¦but so far, nada. 
Arg, how frustrating and stressful @nichols51 ! I hope this gets straightened out soon.
I didnāt realize teachers get the exams. We have gotten no notifications here.
@nichols51 I sure hope the teacher was confusedā¦ urgā¦now a new layer of stress.
Before covid- 19 hit, My son was already planning on going Dual Credit heavy vs AP classes Senior Year because
a) he has a fair amount of text anxiety and this past year did better in his DC class then his AP
b) heās only applying to instate publics where his DC will be a guarantee transfer (weāre following the course sheets from the universities to make sure)
@jeneric My son was originally planning to take one AP (Lit). But if he did, it would mean not being able to take a bunch of classes he really wanted to take. He attends a small, Catholic high school.
After speaking with the person in charge of scheduling, he opted to drop AP Lit and take honors English instead. This freed up his schedule for a bunch of DE classes that the school offers through a Catholic university here in PA. And he is really happy to not have an AP test to deal with.
My S19 ended up following this same path at the same high school. And he is currently an English major at Penn State University Park, so it didnāt hold him back. S21 is thinking English and art right now. So we are confident in him following in his older brotherās footsteps. We are also merit seekers who are targeting CTCL level and state schools.
So, S21 is not opting out of AP due to this yearās issues. But it does help validate his decision.
Well, unfortunately, I canāt seem to get full confirmation/clarification on the APUSH exam.
Can someone whose kid had a successful APUSH submission see in their kidās college board account what shows there for the APUSH ?
My S21's says:
Exam Day
May 15
Youāre registered for the online exam at 2 PM Eastern Time. Find your local time. Use the e-ticket below to go to your exam.
AP ID: (his number)
Youāll need your AP ID to access the exam.
And then there's the yellow button to enter the exam (which he already took).
Does it look that way for anyone else who had a successful submission ? I donāt want to click on the yellow button or anything for fear of triggering something that invalidates his exam, so Iām just wondering if others who successfully submitted their tests see the same thing.
His teacher and I have a theory. I donāt know how Iām going to wait almost 2 months to see if the theory is true.
Originally, S21 was registered for the AP class through his homeschool teacher, and we ājoinedā with the classroom code in his collegeboard account (though my understanding is that you donāt have to do thatā¦itās only for if youāre intending to use their resources for the course along the way). But he joined with the code for both AP Gov and APUSH and those two showed up in his collegeboard account. Then we found a local public school willing to let him take the tests there. They helped us register him as āexam onlyā through their school (which is the school my D23s attend). This resulted in two more entries for him in his collegeboard account. He had one for each AP class (with his teacher) and one for each AP exam only (at the school). So 4 total entries. It was this way for months (since last November, I believe).
Sometime in the past few weeks, I believe, one of these entries disappeared. I have no idea why. It was the APUSH for his actual class with the teacher (again, supposedly not neededā¦kids sometimes self study for an exam and take the exam without actually taking a class). I noticed it was gone at some point but didnāt worry about it because the āexam onlyā entry was still there, and he just needed that one in order to take the test. So the theory we have is this: his test submitted fine, but she didnāt get a copy of it because heās no longer affiliated with her class in their system for some reason. He fell off her roster. No idea why.
I called College Board this morning and they told me that
- if we got the confirmation, they have the test (yay)
- they cannot look any student up specifically to confirm they have his test (argh)
We do have a copy of his confirmation. Also, it shows a time stamp at the bottom of the screen, and I have an email from him time stamped 2 minutes later when he sent me a copy of his essay. This was the first week of AP exams, and they werenāt accepting email submissions then (plus his exam supposedly went through okay so we didnāt email anything), but I take a little comfort in the fact that we have a timestamped email just minutes after he submitted which contains the contents of his essay. I just wish I could find out before mid to late July whether they definitely have his test.
@nichols51 D21ās page on the CB site has the same language as your Sās for all APs she took. I canāt see if theyāve been completed/submitted. I assume she got a confirmation of submission but sheās not up yet and I never asked her. She seemed sure her exams were submitted.
And I have to say, itās pretty bad that CB website doesnāt show the AP tests as complete like they do after an SAT. Looking at my Dās account, itās not clear that she even took her APs.
Update. Yesterday 9 full days after D21 had covid test we got the negative results. We had already released her from her covid room jail cell on Monday as she met the CDC standards to not have to quarantine for someone with symptoms who didnāt get a test with 72 hours fever free without medicine and 10 days having passed since the start of the symptoms. The whole thing was a total cluster from not being able to get a test to waiting for 9 days for the result. Going to have to work better if we want to get back to a new normal.
@burghdad Ugh. Iām glad sheās feeling better. And, yes, covid testing has to work way better than that. Iām furious that each state is in charge of figuring out its own testing.
@burghdad Iām sorry you all dealt with that and am glad your D is out of her room and tested negative. I was just thinking about her last night and wondering what the status was.
@homerdog thank you for sharing the info about how your Dās AP info looks in her account. I am relieved that it is the same as what my S sees and agree that it would be helpful for it to show the test has been completed.
@3kids2dogs Bummer about band camp My D23 is in marching band and their āband campā is just at school for most of August but I donāt think itās going to happen at all this year. Iām sure it would be more fun if they got to go away for it.
APs went fine for S21. He said his AP Lang prompt was a Susan B. Anthony speech and he thought he did OK. @OneMoreToGo2021 Heād have loved to have a Feynman prompt! DH talks about him all the time. Felt good about APUSH, not sure about AP Calc AB ā said he did well on the 1st Q but didnāt think he did well on the 2nd.
School here technically runs until June 12 but all S21 still has to do is finish up a website programming project for Computer Science. They are only grading work if you want to bring up your grade in a class and thatās the only one where he didnāt have an A before the world went crazy.
@jeneric My son is taking 2 DE classes next year ā both electives, computer networking and security + Geographic Information Systems. But also AP Stats, AP Lit and two IB classes, Economics and Biology. So his year-end testing requirements will be all over the place! I really hope our district can at least figure out how to do a hybrid approach where they can get some time at school rather than 100% online. He has found it hard to stay focused with 100% online classes and I think itās going to be really hard for him to stay on track without that in-classroom element.
Iām assuming no SATs are going to happen. Fortunately, S21 took it in Dec and got a 1490 so heās happy to send that.
Iām feeling a lot better about summer after settling a bunch of things last week. S21 got a babysitting job for the whole summer. Heāll be sitting for one 5 yr old boy about 4 hours/day, 4-5 days a week so the mom can work at home. He was supposed to be a camp counselor like last year but right now it looks really unlikely that theyāll open at all. They are making the decision a week at a time. In addition, will be working with my dad to edit/title/caption a ton of old home movies that Dad is getting transferred to digital (S21 took a video production class in 9th grade and enjoys editing). And, signed him up for a 1-week college essay workshop in July to get that process started.
Iād suggested various online summer programs or Coursera classes but he really does not think heās learning well from online classes so weāre keeping it to just the essay workshop. Thatās online too but heās OK with the concentrated one-week program.
D23 is doing more online classes ā our districtās required Economics/Personal Finance class via summer school, 2 weeks of driverās ed, and a weekly Science news discussion group via Outschool. It would be nice if she could pick up some babysitting too. If S21ās camp job actually happens later in the summer, then perhaps she could take over his sitting job.
And, we booked two long-weekend trips. The beach in June and the mountains in August. Canāt wait for a change of scenery!
@JESmom Wow. Where do you live? No baby sitting jobs here. Families arenāt comfortable having a baby sitter come to their house. No summer day camps look to be a go and weāre pretty sure the pools wonāt be open. And traveling isnāt a thing either (unless maybe one has a house in Wisconsin or Michigan).