<p>Welcome porkchop. Nice group here with intersting variations in school curriculum. No AP classes offered til jr year at my son’s school but he is taking SAT2 for US History and Chemistry because he will have just finished those classes. </p>
<p>I will offer up some brownies.</p>
<p>I signed my son up for the SAT2 US History test too but not sure if it’s not just a waste of money. Not that he won’t do well, but I’m not sure if he’ll be going to a college that requires any Subject SAT’s. I like the timing of it - wish the AP test was the day before. The teacher was really scrambling to get the last 30 years of history done in time.</p>
<p>hey folks, my DS is in AP Euro, he was supposed to take the test tomorrow, but had to reschedule, he is going for a medal for crew in the regional finals. So he gets two more weeks to study 
But you know he won’t. He will cram at the last minute, but it is his life right?</p>
<p>kathiep, better to have the SAT IIs and not need them than to not have them and need them, methinks.</p>
<p>Welcome, porkchop! Be on your guard, please; these people like to eat, and who knows what’ll happen to you if someone walks in with some onions, a little salt and pepper, mashed potatoes… :D</p>
<p>:: pours herself a margarita ::</p>
<p>:: breaks out the blue corn chips and peach salsa ::</p>
<p>May I join? </p>
<p>D is HS 2011, S is HS 2009; Dartmouth 2013 and has never seen snow! We’ll need lots of advice.</p>
<p>Told daughter about this group (cyber buffets) and she reminded me about our house rule of not communicating with strangers over the internet - had to adjust the rule to state applies to 18-year-olds and under now that I’ve found CC. </p>
<p>:: daughter rolls eyes. . . says I’m crazy. . . says all of you are crazy :: </p>
<p>Is that how it’s done??</p>
<p>Good enough, getalifemom (now there’s a great screen name!) I have met with cyber friends in real life (IRL) a few times and my whole family gets a kick out of it. The kids always caution me about meeting in a public place. My only problem is when I say something like, “My friend getalifemom told her daughter about this group”. The screen names are a dead give-away that the conversation is with the imaginary friends.</p>
<p>Those dang rules we make up for our kids get us in trouble all the time. Welcome getalife.</p>
<p>Welcome, porkchop and getalifemom!</p>
<p>Do any of your kids have summer plans yet? Mine is still working on his.</p>
<p>kathiep–lol! I’m a virtual friend, not imaginary!</p>
<p>We’re trying to piece together her summer and like last year, are having a hard time scheduling in sleep - and boy does she get cranky. She wants to do it all until fatigue sets in and then we find ourselves backpeddling. As it stands right now:</p>
<p>week 1 - Language day camp volunteer/asst. coordinator (for 1st-4th graders)
Week 2- Tennis day camp volunteer (younger kids)
Weekend 2 - FCA leadership camp
Week 3 - same minus Tue audition for 4-H performing group (six hour drive)
Weekend 3 - 4-H conference and award interview
Week 4 - HS team tennis day camp
Week 5 - Girl Scout camp CIT
Week 6 - 4-H Cloverleaf camp Teen Leader
Week 7 - 4-H Senior Camp - attendee
Week 8 - open!!
Week 9 - friend from Utah coming for visit - travel to Orlando Warp Tour & theme park(s)
Week 10 - back-to-school prep, finish summer reading and assignments</p>
<p>On free weekends she volunteers at our hospital and babysits. Last summer she completed her Silver Award project and this summer hopes to start her Gold Award project. She is 15 so can’t really get a regular job, plus hates to give up any of these other activities. We drive 5-6 hours each way to all but the day camps!</p>
<p>:: just took amaretto chunk cookies out of the oven (really; thanks for recipe!) and can’t wait to try - will share ::</p>
<p>AP Euro today. D1 moaning last night about how she’s going to epic fail, comes in to watch the end of “Judgement at Nurenburg” with the 'rents, makes knowledgeable comments about political landscape in Germany after WWII. I can never remember that stuff. </p>
<p>I’m offering some leftover tomato and white bean salad from last night’s dinner. I can also whip up some more of the excellent scrambled eggs mixed with feta and sauteed spinach.</p>
<p>my faux pas, may I join? I was being a little bit too informal, as is my nature.</p>
<p>raising2 - let us know how your son does in the regionals. </p>
<p>We have our 9yo D’s summer schedule done, but have planned nothing for 16yo S. We are traveling for 3 weeks in June so that only leaves July and Aug. S will have to find a football and bball camp to attend, but as usual he seems to be waiting for us to take care of it for him. Football practice will start up the 3rd week of August, 5 days a week. He applied for a job at the local CVS and the manager seems to like him, but hasn’t hired him yet. </p>
<p>His school requires 2 weeks of community service in the inner city which he needs to arrange for soon. I will have to remind of that so it doesn’t slip through the cracks. He will be playing rec bball 2 nights a week and working out. Although S will have a lot of free time, I think for the most part he will be busy enough. Fingers crossed he gets a PT job for spending money.</p>
<p>In Feb. he did apply to the local day camp he has attended for years to be a jr counselor but they had already filled all the spots. That was disappointing because it is close, his younger S goes there and he knows everyone. He will have to apply after the holildays next year.</p>
<p>Raising2, welcome! I’m sorry I didn’t realize at first that you were new to the thread.</p>
<p>Sounds like there will be some pretty busy kids!</p>
<p>oh thanks everyone, I don’t have time to blog at the moment, H is breathing down my neck to get packed for we are off to the races!!!</p>
<p>kathiep:</p>
<p>Checking in as a parent of a 2010er. It’s great to take care of some SAT IIs as a sophomore if a student can. My S did that with Math 2. Now he just has two more come June.</p>
<p>With all the AP tests, SAT and/or ACT (and possible re-takes due to score choice), SAT II, state standardized tests, high school exits exams … whew, have I named them all … one of the best things a parent can do for their S/D is the figure out the best testing calendar for the student. </p>
<p>Part of this is having a good understanding of how your students studies and when the heaviest time of year is for ECs. For our S, we decided he could self-study for the SAT out of books, so that made things more flexible. Working with him, we determined the best course of action was to take the SAT in March, a re-take if needed (which he did, in May) and then the remaining SAT IIs in June, to match with his AP classes this year in physics and US History. </p>
<p>This way, he will be done with the testing before senior year. He can spend a little time in the summer thinking about, maybe drafting some of the college essays and then hit the ground hard in the fall. (Note: His heaviest EC period is in the fall so this is the only sane way for him to attack this, really.)</p>
<p>Good luck everyone from '11.</p>
<p>Hello everyone! I’m kinda late to the party, guess I’ve been in denial that it’s about time for another round of college admissions. My oldest is a soph in college, but since she transferred after her first year I feel like I’ve barely recovered from her admissions process.</p>
<p>My younger D took the Bio Subject test last week and will take the AP test on Monday. She’s signed up for Math 2 in June with a possible retake of the Bio if she thinks she needs to/can improve her score.</p>
<p>The summer is pretty unstructured, she’ll volunteer, keep up her running and self-study for a fall or winter sitting of the SAT and hopefully get it out of the way since spring will be busy as usual.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all 2011s, I’m looking forward to your company along the way!</p>
<p>Thanks, Owlice. And everybody! Please pass me one of those margaritas. I have a D in college already but my S will be an entirely different story. Which is as it should be, I guess. This summer he’s working at a summer camp-- and maybe taking a practice test from the blue book. My first post was on the SAT forum and I got one answer, so I’ll ask again: has anyone had any experience with the Nintendo My SAT Coach game/study aid? I’m trying to carefully walk the line of not bugging him too much about all of this, but also not leaving it all until it’s too late.</p>
<p>< has anyone had any experience with the Nintendo My SAT Coach game/study aid? </p>
<p>I don’t. I will ask S if he has heard anything. Have you looked at the Xiggi method?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/68210-xiggis-sat-prep-advice.html?highlight=xiggi+sat[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-preparation/68210-xiggis-sat-prep-advice.html?highlight=xiggi+sat</a></p>
<p>It is basically just grinding through problems. We do practice problems untimed and then go through and redo any problems that S gets wrong. We don’t spend tons of time on it, but 15-60 minutes here and there. For the SAT2 S took the USH practice test, did well so now all he is doing is reviewing an AP USH book a few minutes each night. He loves history so he doesn’t mind this review. His chemistry teacher is spending 2 weeks reviewing for the SAT2 and we will spend 15 minutes a night from here out doing practice test questions and reviewing the material that he doesn’t get. This chemistry prep is a grind for him (and H). Although I have an undergrad in chemistry and H one in music, we have found that H can push S more so he is the one working with him. I listen in and comment when needed but it is basically just the two of them.</p>
<p>“anyone had any experience with the Nintendo My SAT Coach game/study aid?”</p>
<p>I have no experience, but I’m going to check it out. Most of your kids seem to be so different from mine. He just texted me to say he got two detentions, a Saturday school, and a parent conference, and that he wants to “give up” (Apparently told his math teacher he didn’t want to learn from a math sheet…). And I’m a slow texter. Arggh.</p>
<p>PS My D finished freshman year of college last Friday.</p>