Parents of the HS class of 2010 - Original

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<p>Is there even such a grade as F+? ;)</p>

<p>Apparently, like everyone else on this board my D is having trouble finding safety schools. She is a B+ student at a competitive public high school. I have no idea what her test scores will be, but she is a horrendous test taker (anxiety). She wants a school that is very academic and has traditional core requirements. She is not particularly interested in sports. Her EXTREME reaches are Barnard (her dream school) and U of Chicago (double legacy). Are there any "safety" schools that would have the kind of academic rigor D is looking for or is she stuck at our state school (which BTW, is no longer a safety for anyone either)?</p>

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<p>Great DougBetsey - that will ruin D's holiday. ;)</p>

<p>No, seriously. That's great info. I would guess you would need the SS number to get the scores.</p>

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<p>I think there is a unique code number that has to be entered before a student can access the PSAT scores online, and that code number is on the piece of paper which the school distributes. HOWEVER, I believe there was some workaround (i.e, hack!) that was posted on one of the SAT threads here last year and I used it successfully last year to get D's report a few days before the school distributed it. Now I don't remember how it was done, but I trust the hacks will post it again this year when the time comes :-).</p>

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<p>I see you're right. Here's the page on collegeboard.com that explains it: My</a> College QuickStart - PSAT Scores Online</p>

<p>I just assumed that since Son has a My College Quick Start account from last year that it would remain active for this year. We shall see.</p>

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<p>^^ Yes, I think the trick might have been as simple as viewing the previous year's score report and then going into the address bar and changing the year to the current year. </p>

<p>My D had not taken the test before last year so I think there was also some other way.</p>

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<p>^^ Yes, I think the trick might have been as simple as viewing the previous year's score report and then going into the address bar and changing the year to the current year. </p>

<p>My D had not taken the test before last year so I think there was also some other way.</p>

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<p>There was another way, but I think that collegeboard caught on and "fixed" it so it stopped working. I was able to see D's scores, but then when I went back to show her, it no longer worked. Not sure if someone will figure out another way this year, but it'll be interesting to see what happens. I do know that either the week before Thanksgiving, or the week of Thanksgiving, I started getting a lot of college emails (D had used my email address when registering for last year's PSAT). We still get a number of them everyday, but nothing like what came in Thanksgiving week (especially Thanksgiving weekend, when email, after email arrived non-stop). This year, she used her own email, so I'll have to ask her when they start.</p>

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<p>Archiemom - an F+ - at least it was an obvious error..........lol. </p>

<p>Queen's Mom - I think a lot of our kids are having trouble selecting safety schools, and even matches. No problem picking out the reaches though..........lol.</p>

<p>I remember the school sending home last year's PSAT scores in early December, but I had already peeked at them online. Good luck, everyone.</p>

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<p>For some strange reason some of my posts have been showing up in duplicate, and I'm not able to edit or delete them either. Hope that doesn't happen with this one too!</p>

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<p>The management team is still working on the latest round of the posting bug. Thanks for your patience with the double posts.</p>

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<p>No massive emails yet from PSAT's at our house. We made a new, separate account just for college stuff. Seems like a great idea. We'll see.</p>

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<p>D made a separate email account for college stuff, but she started using it regularly, so it's now her official email and her college email address. Oh, well.</p>

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<p>D gave the PSAT's my email address, because she thought her email address was too childish for college stuff (she's right, it was). We have since set up a new, more grown up address... but it's too late for me, my mailbox is doomed.</p>

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<p>Lafalum - you're right - it is! I was trying to do some work on my laptop over Thanksgiving weekend last year, and those emails came in literally non-stop! It was crazy - completely distracting. And meanwhile, D wasn't the least bit interested in reading any of them.</p>

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<p>I've posted this before, but I don't remember if it was here or on another thread, so I offer apologies in advance!<br>
RE: grades -- our school system uses an online grading system and TWICE S1 had to get grades changed because graded work that had been returned to him had not been entered (or saved?) in the electronic gradebook, generating zeros for missing work. Thank goodness my son never cleaned out his backpack -- the evidence was right there and it was easy to match up assignments with a printout from the online system, and he was able to take everything right in to the teacher. </p>

<p>The first time this happened was in a junior year AP. The second time was the week before GRADUATION and somehow S had a D in English. Three assignments, graded and marked with comments, were returned but not entered. S1 is not exactly the most organized kid on the planet and has had problems previously getting work submitted. In retrospect, I wonder if we should have pursued his claims of "But I turned that in!" a bit more closely.</p>

<p>The good news, S1 reports, is that Mickey Mouse garbage about HW goes away in college!</p>

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<p>Our school doesn't post grades online. I know they're supposed to start this fall, but I haven't seen any sign of that happening. </p>

<p>And CountingDown, scary about those missing assignments that had been turned in and graded, but not recorded. I'm sure things like that happen more often than we'd like to think about.</p>

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<p>I'm thinking that this may also be true for S2. I need to ask him about those 0s listed for French homework in the online grading. It does seem implausible that he has done no homework in this class all year. Wouldn't be like him and I'm ashamed to say that that was my assumption right off the bat.</p>

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<p>With both my son and daughter, we have seen 3-4 missing or inaccurately recorded assignments a year. This is obviously not a new problem - but at least now there is a chance to fix the problem. I remember well getting a C in Trig in high school when the teacher's gradebook ended up with grades from another student recorded on my line (essentially everyone slipped down) Real mess - and the teacher ended up having to redo the entire class.</p>

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<p>I like the grades posted online. It lets you catch mistakes before they turn into problems (well, usually).</p>

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<p>We have a policy of making photocopies of all completed work prior to turning it in. We have had numerous occasions where it has been turned in and lost by the teacher, sometimes after grading sometimes before. Without the online posting of grades S2 would have never known this was the case.</p>