Same. Today confirmed it is AP Stats next year.
But they have a Calc test on Wednesday…and Friday. 
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I think saying D25’s chem class put on their AP shirts is applicable to many AP classes: AP Chemistry survivor- sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is just another train! 
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Same here. I asked my D if she could do her chore of folding laundry and she just grumbled at me. 
Maybe check out schools that have the Stamps scholarship? I know that is a big one and I believe it is full tuition plus room and board plus a stipend. I could be a bit off though.
It is offered at several schools around the country.
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Big help! 
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Getting merit aid from the top 50 schools is almost impossible. A few have them, like the Robertson at Duke/UNC, etc. But top 50 schools give almost exclusively need-based awards.
Here is the easiest way to see average merits awards (I also posted this up-thread):
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One of my kids teachers limits to 15 and only teachers 11th graders …Turns out it is all completely voluntary they do any…per contract they get a day off if they 15, but nothing after that. sigh.
It’s highly recommended that he chooses teachers from two core subjects. How about English?
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They attend a very large public school and, unfortunately, have not developed a relationship with that teacher, although their grades are good. Since their school is an art school, and their Illustration teacher has been their teacher for two years plus there is an Art History/writing component to the class, hoping it will be okay in their case.
@Longview43 and @kirroyalemum - my guy was in BC Calc for the first semester of this year, when he decided to drop down to AB (the BC teacher had a reverse classroom set up - the introducing new concepts was done at home, for homework, by watching AP classroom videos to “teach”. Then in class they would solve HW problems together. This was NOT a good set up for him). He had been debating between BC for next your or AP Stats and about two weeks ago he said Mom, I’m just tired of math. I want Stats next year. Then he came home yesterday and said yep, Stats it is.
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Define sizable? Is $20k/year sizable? Or is sizable more like full tuition? @UTmeritseeker posted a great link to see the average size of awards.
Below are a couple of links that mention “full rides”, which sometimes are really just full tuition, leaving about $18k/year for room & board. For all links, make sure to double-check with the universities to see if those scholarships are still offered.
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You may want to check out Jeff Selingo’s book. If you get it, then you get a link to his data analysis on “buyers v sellers”. Sellers basically being schools that are so desirable they don’t have to give much if any merit aid to attract students, and buyers being those schools that tend to give more aid to attract the top students.
I bought the book and downloaded the data probably 3.5 years ago when I was starting this process with my older son, so it could have changed since then, but here’s some of what I saw from the “Ivy+ elite universities”; “elite small colleges”; and “highly selective universities” groups (below). The list started getting really long before I made it through the Highly Selective Universities so I stopped and I never got to the Highly Selective Small Colleges.
In addition to that as a potential starting place, if there’s a particular school that appeals to your child, google the name of the school + “common data set”. Then go to Section H which is about financial aid. Scroll through to the subset that has non-need based aid. You can see how many merit awards they gave and what the average award amount is.
College name, Percentage of Institutional aid without respect to financial need:
- U Southern California - 23%
- GWU - 27%
- The College of New Jersey - 34%
- U Miami - 44%
- RPI - 25%
- Case Western - 39%
- Scripps - 20%
- Oberlin - 23%
- U Richmond - 24%
- Rose-Hulman - 28%
- Whitman - 20%
- U-Wisconisin-Milwaukee - 77%
- Texas A&M - College Station - 27%
- U FLorida - 49%
- U Georgia - 41%
- Elon - 49%
- Gonzaga - 38%
- Loyola - Chicago - 35%
- Illinois Institute of Technology 35%
- Marquette = 33%
- Santa Clara Univ - 31%
- Univ San Diego - 25%
- Loyola Univ New Orleans - 20%
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S25 has now had two of these “flipped classroom” classes, both APs, and they have been awful for him.
It was a disaster for my son. Not only does he play a sport, so he doesn’t get home until 6:30 or so at which time it’s awfully challenging to be trying to learn new things by watching videos, but he’s also got ADHD and meds aren’t working by that time. It was a disaster. Basically he kept up for so long by just busting his butt on the weekend to try to re-teach himself everything from during the week. He was never caught up and it was constantly stressful. The move to AB - which was to a teacher who is a fantastic teacher in general plus who uses a traditional classroom set up, was a god send for him. It took me months - like almost the entire second quarter - to convince him to move. He really really wanted to make it work. He didn’t want to drop down, he’d always defined himself as being one of the best at math. But it just wasn’t worth the stress and anxiety. Particularly since he isn’t looking to be an engineer or anything particularly “mathy”.
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The math isn’t mathing for me. Many colleges require two LOR from academic teachers. If core academic teachers are limiting themselves to 10 or 15 students, how could every college bound student acquire 2 teacher LOR’s at your schools?
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I would bet if the teachers were reversed, and the one who teaches the material had BC, and the one who opts for a flipped classroom was assigned the AB classes then it would be BC Calc that was easier than AB at your school.
Unfortunately, it seems the flipped-classroom method is more common in college so our students are likely to encounter this later on;(
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I am a flipped classroom fan (for certain subjects) but it needs to be done right. My kids had it for middle school honors math, but the teacher recorded all her own lessons. That is where my kids learned to take great notes. She was a stickler for them.
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There is a thread on CC titled schools known for good merit aid.
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I’m glad if someone has a good experience with the flipped classroom. I think you nailed it when you said it needs to be done right. For both of S25’s classes, AP Environmental Science and AP Precalc, the recorded lessons were found online, not recorded by the teachers at the school. And then tests, quizzes, projects and reviews were split up among the group of teachers at the school to design for all of the classrooms. So sometimes students would have questions about the projects and the teacher would not be able to answer it because they had not been the one to create the request.
So, I’m really hoping that next year’s AP Calc will not be a flipped classroom, the only class S25 might face that situation.
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