<p>No TheDad, but I will be hoping Amy's is open on Sunday's.</p>
<p>Carolyn, your daughter has the right idea. My d. was taking the SAT I today -and I'd be just as happy if she'd forget the SAT entirely and just retake the ACT instead. Every single private college she is looking at will take ACT+writing in lieu of SAT I + SAT II's.... so it just seems to make more sense to me to focus on one test rather than many. But maybe we'll have good news. She seemed to feel positively about the test, except for the length.</p>
<p>My son also felt very positive about the SAT I test, and so now he is done with SAT I for good. Still annoyed that he had to choose between that and SAT IIs, which he felt he would have done "great" in. He was unusually pumped up! One thing I don't get is why they don't offer one more testing day at the end of June when kids are finished school and maybe have a few days to collect themselves before the test. I guess it's a case of proctors not being available?</p>
<p>Curmudgeon - What a way to start the day! Do you know why they changed the location? </p>
<p>Carolyn - I just happened to notice the College Sims in the store the other day and was thinking that it would make a neat grad gift for Sims fans. Your daughter's comment about the grown-up kids was priceless!</p>
<p>Mootmom -
omg, that you for the cross stitch link, I will send it to my SIL!</p>
<p>Curmudgeon -
all of these tests are just ... perilous. A friend of my son had her tests disqualified because she took the writing before the Math IIC. My son an irregularity report written up on him because he either jumped the gun and anticipated the verbiage or the proctor misspoke. That got cleared up, but it was three weeks of misery for all concerned.</p>
<p>My junior s was out every night this past week with friends and didn't open either SAT I book I bought him. I found an SAT essay on one of the cc SAT threads that someone had received an 11 for and printed that out for him. I told him: 3 examples! Good conclusion! but that's as far as his studying went. Xiggi would not be pleased with him, lol. </p>
<p>He got home from a late dinner Friday night and couldn't find his calculator, which is, apparently, lost. Luckily, his brother has one and we located it in his astonishingly messy room. [He's on a trip.] Then, in the morning, I discovered he'd left his car door open all night after searching the car for his calculator. Luckily, it started right up! I fixed him a good breakfast and some coffee and a smoothie and he went off cheerfully to the test. My mother said I got an 800 for his snack: english cheddar cheese, crackers, chocolate covered raisins, and cold water in a new REI food container! </p>
<p>He came home feeling cheerful and thought he'd done well. I told him the bad proctor stories on the SAT thread and he enjoyed them, though he felt sorry for some of those people! He said his proctors were really good. On the essay, he said he wrote five equally long paragraphs, taking up all the available space. </p>
<p>I'm curious to see his W score - he's really weird about grammar and uses a lot of run-on sentences in his writing. He didn't even finish the grammar part on the psat [still did okay and luckily did well on the other two parts] and explained that he was really thinking about one question and got caught up in his thoughts. On one research paper last year, he capitalized words for emphasis. The teacher's astonishment matched mine. My s explained that he obviously knew when to capitalize, he just thought that doing it this new way would be interesting. </p>
<p>I hearby promise I will come back on in two weeks with his scores. I can't believe we get the results back so soon - hard to see how they get those essays grades so fast.</p>
<p>Do SAT II scores come back then, too?</p>
<p>Blizzard - SATs used to be given in late June or early July. That's when I took mine. I don't know why they stopped giving the tests then.</p>
<p>SAT II scores should be available on-line on June 20th. However, they were several days later for the May test my daughter took.</p>
<p>S is very relieved. Took the new SAT in March and is satisfied with his scores.Was high enough so that the predictor for retesting was almost evenly split over new score going up or down so he decided to "stick".Essay was a problem,only scored an 8..didnt finish in time and only used 2 examples.But the rest was very good.We've heard mixed things about how much weight the essay will carry anyway.Hopefully his as yet unwritten but hopefully brilliant appication essay's will suffice.
He decided to skip SAT 2's all together (had taken 1 soph year) as all his choice schools but 1 do not require them.He has a very specific major in mind (sports management) and the schools he is considering don't ask for them.Rice does and has the major but he decided its just too small for him so that made the choice not to test easier.
Needless to say,his May has been pretty smooth except for the AP's.
He's breathing a little easier now and the game is on to match up merit $ schools,possible free ride National Merit Finalist schools with intended
major availability plus atmosphere,location,vibe,culture,etc.He's going to a summer program at what is now his first choice school so he'll get a good look at that one (U Miami).</p>
<p>Heidi,
Your son sounds like a soul mate for my daughter. I always say that she is a Zig-Zag thinker. She gets to the right place eventually but her mind takes lots of scenic (and sometimes exasperating) detours along the way. :)</p>
<p>S got his May SAT II scores 2 days earlier than the posted date.</p>
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My older S hae a tendency to roll his eyes and sigh
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My son's favorite Zits cartoon is where Jeremy rolls his eyes so hard that they leave his face and race across the floor past his Dad, who thinks "Boy, that must have been a REALLY stupid question" at the same time you see his mom yelling "Don't you roll your eyes at me, young man". It's the story of our existence with a 16-year old.</p>
<p>Carolyn, "scenic tours," - yes! that's a great way to put it. :-)</p>
<p>I sometimes think of my D as a "pitcher" of eye-rolls: curve, slider, fast, change-up...inside, outside, high, low.</p>
<p>The worst part of eye-rolls is remembering how I used to do the same thing to MY parents. ;)</p>
<p>I was with my daughter while she was buying clothes today (I provided the plastic, of course), and she couldn't decide between two pairs of pants. We even resorted to flipping a coin, and she still couldn't decide. As I told her, heaven help us next April if she has any decisions to make.</p>
<p>Well, this may sound weird but my two teenagers have literally never rolled their eyes at me, nor me at my parents. Do you think there is some genetic component, because I just tried to roll my eyes and it felt uncomfortable, which may be why our family just doesn't do it. One of mine [age 16] never gets exasperated about anything, and the other [17] just sort of gives me a steely gaze when he's annoyed or he'll tell me I've annoyed him. [So I can learn from it, I think. :-)]</p>
<p>Do you think there is some genetic component, because I just tried to roll my eyes and it felt uncomfortable, which may be why our family just doesn't do it. >></p>
<p>Oh Heidi, that is hysterical! LOL!</p>
<p>Perhaps the ability to roll your eyes is linked with the ability to roll your tonque? Can you do both at once?</p>
<p>Oh man, I can roll my tongue up into one of those curl-logs, but <em>EVERYONE</em> in my family can do that <em>AND</em> turn their tongue upside down!! I feel so left out.</p>
<p>I can, however, wiggle my ears much better than any of the rest of them, so there. (Rolling my eyes and my tongue simultaneously is a snap. But try rolling your tongue and wiggling your ears at the same time, it's really hard!! It makes my tongue stick out and my ears not wiggle anywhere near as much. )</p>