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Sounds to me more like she was BSing off the top of her head to get rid of him. Sorry, I am very pro-teacher in general, but this just sounds like a canned response. Good for your kid for not letting it end there.</p>
<p>RTR, I am glad your son was his own advocate. Am I correct in assuming the teacher did not apologize for her error? I respect the difficult job teachers have, but I find that schools which stress the importance of being careful seldom own up to their own mistakes. </p>
<p>I have often wished my kids were more assertive in this regard–at least once a year, they are mystified by a grade and both do not ask about it and forbid us to ask, fearing retaliation.</p>
<p>Yabe…I don’t know if she apologized…I hope she did. I should ask my son.</p>
<p>I wish our school had one of those systems that some schools seem to have where you can see your grades on homeworks/tests in real time (and thus, I suppose your parents can too if you give them permission). Then again, they probably don’t have this because a lot of the parents would go nuts with it!</p>
<p>^Of course those systems are only as good as the teacher compliance. We have something like that available at our school, but for our son’s classes anyway, there never seems to be anything posted on it. Fortunately all his teachers this year seem to be good about making their assignments clear, because there has been little or no confusion so far–a far cry from past years.</p>
<p>Hi - I am new to this. I was trying to find some info about options for my D and came on to cc. my D has a 3.0 but she also takes 3 honors classes. She had a rough sophomore year and know she is trying to make up for it. She has applied to several colleges but after reading your forum i am not sure if she will get in. One of them is Providence College and Marist College. I think she also applied to RIU, Quinnipec in Ct. ( sorry if not spelled correctly) and a few more but i can’t remember at this time. I know Providence is her first choice. Any advice? I forgot to add that her sat was about 1750. I don’t know if that would make any difference where these colleges are concerned.</p>
<p>Hudsonvalley this
made me LOL</p>
<p>R2R your proactive boy has my admiration. I am sure that the teacher was blaming him to throw him off her scent. I hate when adults can’t admit to kids that they have made a mistake. Not only is it wrong to maintain blamelessness when you are at fault but it is also so very powerful to look a kid in the eye and say “Wow, I totally blew that I am so sorry and you were absolutely right to question me.” It’s a teaching moment that extends far beyond the teacher’s curriculum and I wish more of my colleagues would take advantage of it.</p>
<p>I admire proactive, too. My D1 was not at all. In her junior year, she got a terrible grade in the first semester of English because the teacher didn’t like her presentation. D wouldn’t let me intervene, but I asked the teacher later at the parent teacher conference. The upshot was that it was her first semester in the school and got two girls with similar names mixed up. I hope my D learned something from that.</p>
<p>Welcome sasha does your D have an upward trend, ie. grades that may have started out a bit shakey but are now more solid? That matters to many schools who like seeing that a student rebounded after a rough start.</p>
<p>Also if there is an explanation for the sophomore grades that she can make clear in her essay that may help as well as long as she accepts responsibility for the low grades and and explains how and why she turned them around.</p>
<p>Her GPA puts her in the lower quartile of accepted students at Providence but, depending on how it breaks down her SAT scores look like she is in the middle for her test scores.</p>
<p>For Marist she looks a little more solid middle quarter for GPA and again, depending on her individual scores probably middle for test scores</p>
<p>I would suggest adding a couple of true safety schools where her stats put her solidly in the middle. Use collegeboard.com’s “How do I stack Up?” feature if you don’t have access to Naviance. Good luck and don’t worry there are schools out there for our B students!</p>
<p>ZM Holy COW!!! In the pre computer days of grading, I was so afraid of making arithmetic mistakes that I would add and re add all those numbers time and time again. I also know that I have caught myself entering one student’s score on the line of her/his neighbor above or below in my column of names but not knowing who is who?? Thank heavens you checked it out.</p>
<p>Historymom- Thank you. Her grades for her sophmore years can only be explained by being honest and admiiting she really didn’t have to much interest in doing well in school.
Her junior year she rebounded but i think as far as her gpa it didn’t help enough to bring it up. I know on her essay she explained her lack of interest and her poor judgement as far as friends were concerned and her poor self esteem during her sophmore year. Any suggestions as far as schools are concerned? I know she will be very disappointed if she doesn’t get in to Providence.</p>
<p>sasha I really don’t know but I do believe that regardless of the final decision of ad coms our kids tend to end up where they are supposed to be…getting a little metaphysical here I know. My D was WLed at her first choice and did not come off. She really wanted that school and had a terrible time choosing the #2 school for depositing purposes. Well she is attending the #2 school and is loving it. She is involved, engaged, challenged and having fun. My point is that even though our kids believe they belong or can only happily attend one school the reality is that many many students do not get their first or even their second or third choice. However, give them a year at the school they do attend and they can’t imagine themselves anywhere else.</p>
<p>As far as other schools go look at similar schools…I am on the west coast so don’t know much about NE colleges and Universities. Make sure she has a safety she would like to attend and trust that things will work out as they should. It is so tempting to try to predict the future…hence the abundance of “chance me” threads but no one really can tell you what will happen.</p>
<p>historymom - I really believe you are correct in saying that our kids end up where they are supposed to be. My S wants to go to a more elite college, but in my heart of hearts I think he would flounder and just be setting himself up for failure. I cannot say this to him, but I am glad he was rejected. If after 2 years at his small LAC he shows that he can handle it, then we are all for letting him transfer. His ACT, GPA and rank are all in sync. It would be different if one or two of them was really high.</p>
<p>sasha6 - Have you looked into Endicott, Emmanuel (Boston), Roger Williams or St Anselm’s (please excuse spelling errors) My friend’s daughter with similiar stats but lower test scores got into all of these schools last year.</p>
<p>sasha,
If they are not too far away, lots of Providence and Marist applciants also like Fairfield; St Josephs; and Loyola MD, all of which are somewhat easier to get into. Is she open to smaller schools as well?</p>
<p>sasha - My son’s top choices are Providence and Marist. He does not stand a good chance of getting in. Therefore, he is applying to a lot of other schools. He likes Endicott and Roger Williams and Emmanuel (Boston) and Salve Regina. He also likes Stonehill but that is another reach school.</p>
<p>sasha - your D should take the SAT again at least one or two times. The maturation and knowledge base really grows between sophomore and senior year.</p>
<p>I agree on taking the SAT at least twice. These days, there really is no downside.</p>
<p>In my opinion, sophomore year is a bit too early to take the SAT (I think it is designed for senior year), unless it’s done strictly for practice. There are other ways to practice.
Don’t overlook the ACT–many kids do better on it than the SAT and it is equally accepted by colleges. My kids took both the ACT and the SAT in the spring of junior year–one did better on the ACT and one did better on the SAT. We felt it was unnecessary to take the tests more than once.</p>
<p>It is also worth mentioning that colleges view high school grades as much more important than a standardized test score.</p>
<p>Yabey, do you really think Fairfield is easier to get into than Providence & Marist?
I thought they were a bit more pickier these days, just looked at USNWR’s Premium Edition: </p>
<p>Fall 2008: 38% Freshmen were in Top 10% of High School Class, 76% in the Top 25%
Mid 50% on the SATS were: (CR) 520-610 (M) 540-630, AVG GPA = 3.4
Wait List Stats: 2,301 were wait listed, 946 accepted from Wait List, 120 Enrolled </p>
<p>OK, I have had my fun, back to the kitchen! 
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!</p>
<p>Do any of you know if Fairfield has good LD supports? This is for a friend of mine whose daughter is graduating this year and has significant LDs. (We’re not talking about minor things…the girl goes to a special education school where she has small classes taught using learning strategies and daily one-on-one support.) She had heard that Fairfield has a very good program for kids with significant LDs, but I have never heard this and the kids I know who go there do not have these issues.</p>
<p>I e-mailed a friend of mine who’s a professor at Fairfield. Hope the response is helpful:</p>
<p>“We do have an office that coordinates accommodations
and tutors for students with disabilities. The person who runs that
office is Amy Tiu-Wu (<a href=“mailto:atiu-wu@fairfield.edu”>atiu-wu@fairfield.edu</a>). I would assume she would
be willing to talk to a prospective student or parent. They should also
just contact admissions and see what they have to say.”</p>