What states have free tuition for valedictorians?
I’m not doubting it, I’ve just never heard of it.
Texas. First year only though.
CT used to have free tuition for class Vals but I don’t think that is the case anymore.
He made his choice to stick with BC. I don’t see him using free time to do extra problems but nonetheless he is confident that he can raise his grades and usually his judgement is pretty good. Let’s see. I know he can do it but wondering if he’ll discipline himself to get there by more practice or just by figuring out which steps his teacher wants to see on paper. Either way, we are staying out of it and letting him figure it out himself.
Sometimes, you just gotta make a decision: get involved in every single choice a kid wants to make or let him have some free will to proceed as he sees fit.
At this point in my kids’ hs lives, I spent more time accepting their decisions than questioning them. We talked, sure, and I was frank about possible ramifications, but then it was their call.
No fire alarms.
Yes, if he’s aiming for stem at a tippy top… But a lot of your posts seem to show he wants some independence to call more of his own shots.
The tigerdad in me would encourage him to continue take it, because any negative effect of getting B in Calc BC instead of A in Calc AB, if there is any, would be vastly overcome by positive effect of taking a challenge course at own will and working hard to do well. It would be an out of question to get in his decision. I wouldn’t feel that I have the right anyway.
My son had barely an 80 after his first semester senior year in BC calc. I was worried that it would affect his acceptances. Hopefully this is only your child’s first semester and he will have a chance to raise his overall grade at the end of the mid year marking period. At mid year he only had an 85 average but by the end of the year he had a solid A. I think schools know this is one of the most difficult AP courses. I would say he should stick with it. It shows rigor.