<p>Talking of proms, D is going to the junior prom next week. She still does not have a dress - with AP tests this week and the next, don’t know if we’ll find the time to go dress shopping before next Wednesday!</p>
<p>What’s typical with flowers? Do the boys do a corsage and do we need to get her date a boutonniere? This is the junior prom - at the high school. Tuxes/limos are not allowed - so not sure how formal they need to be. She has a short dress, but apparently the unwritten rule is that if you are going with a date, the dress needs to be long. Aargh!</p>
<p>Context switching. Anyone have information on University of Richmond? The school/programs/reputation etc? Could it be considered as a safety school for a student with a GPA ~4.0, SAT around 2100? She’s interested in biology (genetics)/psychology.</p>
<p>I am having a hard time finding safety schools that she would be enthusiastic about. She doesn’t want anything small (less than 2000 kids) or anything big (over 12K kids). Ideally, I’d like the safety school to be one that doesn’t cost 50K - or at least be the one that offers her merit scholarships. So far, we have Northeastern on the list. She’s not too thrilled with the others for one reason or another - Clark, Villanova (is this really a safety?), Marist, DePaul. Also thinking about adding UVM.</p>
<p>2011 son passed his Networking+ certification test today! He passed A+ Certification last year. Hope his AP computer science exam went equally well. At least he’ll be able to get a decent work study job at college.</p>
<p>arismp
Based on my S’s naviance data SAT scores for admitted students ranged from 1970 to 2200 and the GPA ranged from 3.3 to 4.4 weighted. Only 2 kids out of 12 admitted had GPA’s higher than 4.0. Keep in mind that is the data from one school. Common data set info: middle 50% for CR was 580-670, for M 590-680 and W 580 - 690. Didn’t list ave GPA.</p>
<p>So, IMO, her SAT scores make her a safety. Based on my S’s school her GPA would also make it a safety. Not a big safety, but she is in the upper 25%.</p>
<p>Think Emory. Strong in fields you mention; I think offer merit</p>
<p>I’m thinking of a school that meets your needs. For my son, only safety was the flagship school. That would have cost nothing. I don’t know what state you live in, and how admissions work where you are.</p>
<p>Arisamp – about your D’s safety schools…based on her profile, I would categorize most if not all of the schools you mentioned as in her safety wheelhouse. All are pricey, however, with the exception of Marist (where she may qualify for significant merit $$$). At Villanova, it would probably depend which school she applied to as some are more competitive than others. She’d also have a decent shot if she applied EA. The daughter of one of my co-workers just finished her freshman year at URichmond with a far lower GPA and test scores than your D. Marist seems to have become a really hot school in the past 5 years, which has tended to baffle me, not sure why. UVM is also a bit less expensive, in the midst of a fun city (Burlington) and has a decent Honors program. Has she thought about Fordham (Rose Hill campus in the Bronx?)</p>
<p>Our student sent me a text saying–please pick me up after school–skipping sports practice–to study for AP Cal test (tom) build physics bridge and get sleep…</p>
<p>Fixed nice dinner–and encouraging hydration, eating well and rest tonight…</p>
<p>Frankly with 2 weeks of APs and then also finals–its like having 3 weeks of finals/tests…</p>
<p>when do these kids sleep???</p>
<p>As for me–carrot cake is a good sedative! :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Hold the phone! D just informed me that she wants to retake the SAT on June 5th. I’m sure the fact that her boyfriend is taking it at the same time/place isn’t influencing her decision at all… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>But I’m secretly glad, because I was hoping she would retake it. What I’m mostly glad about was that it was HER decision, and not me pushing her into it.</p>
<p>I have no idea how any of our kids get it all done! I am a night owl so I am usually up at night w/ my son when he’s working late, but I watch the clock and hate that the alarm is going to go off at 5am.</p>
<p>Tonight my son is spending his ‘free time’ scrubbing his bathroom… I mean REALLY cleaning it. His girlfriend is staying in his room after prom (he’ll be locked downstairs for the night!). He really doesn’t want her to see how messy it usually is! He called me asking about cleaners and said he needed a different brush for the floor He was scrubbing the tile grout! lol! I’m going to have to pay more attention to the girlfriend because apparently it is more serious than I thought! I had to use restraint not to take a picture of him detailing the tub… I think I’ll invite her back and offer her our room, my bathroom could use a good detailing! :)</p>
<p>LuckyBoy is hasn’t opened a book since he got home at 4:30. I’m glad he’s not stressed out tonight I hope he stays unstressed for the remainder of the AP exam period.</p>
<p>Because he’s taking AP calc tomorrow, he is exempt from the rest of the day’s classes. He’s not going to have Eng Lang class until next Tuesday :eek: as Thursday is the only day w/o an exam but it’s the “letter day” in the cycle without English! I asked him what he’s to do about missed classes-----nothing for the missed other APs, he’ll have to make up a test on “Night” for Social Justice, and <em>mumblemumblemumble</em> for Latin.</p>
<p>My S’s AP Stats didn’t do anything outside of class, but his AP Chem teacher has had extra classes all year and has really ramped it up to 2 times a week for the last few weeks. Today he took the Stats AP and he’s a little bit scared of the Chem AP now. We’ve been telling him since forever that he needed to take this seriously.</p>
<p>Our schools do junior and senior prom together, so it’s just prom. Limos, flowers etc are the norm. My S’s school allows party buses - but some local schools do not. We told both of our kids, that we weren’t allowing party buses. Some are like tour buses and have little rooms that people can go off to by themselves. The norm for the girls is short dresses…I’m not thrilled with some of what I’ve seen but I have seen some really cute dresses too.</p>
<p>Wow, detailing the bathroom…that’s great. I was trying to get my S to do that a couple of weeks ago, just because he had let it go…not nearly as effective as the GF method.</p>
<p>Maybe my perspective is screwed up, but I keep telling D not to sweat the AP tests. It would be nice if she was able to do well and get college credit for the courses, but it isn’t the end of the world if she doesn’t. I am trying to get her not to kill herself staying all up studying. I would rather she do well on her coursework that goes into her grades (which have really fallen the last two quarters!)</p>
<p>My son had his first AP yesterday - computer science. He thinks he may have gotten a 3 or 4. He does not do so well on the big tests. He’s also not sure if it would be a good idea to test out of this in college anyway, since this computer language would be one of his core classes. I’m glad it’s behind him. Next up is AP Euro and then he’ll be done with the AP’s. It’s unusual in our small school to have more then two AP’s in a year - which seems like as many as he could handle anyway.</p>
<p>The prom here is a junior/senior prom, but not for a couple of more weeks. I guess I’d better fuss at him about renting a tux. His GF has an off white gown. How is he supposed to match that? I suggested that we bring GF with us to pick out the tux.</p>
<p>Apollo6 - I take it that the classes that your son is taking are Microsoft certification classes? Does he do them through your HS? Are they year long classes? My son had mentioned looking at something like that over the summer.</p>
<p>blueiguana-Since your S would probably never forgive you if you photographed him while he was cleaning the bathroom, maybe you could just write a ‘letter’ to him to give him on a special birthday - 30, 40, 50 or the day his son takes a girl to the prom. You can enclose a pic of both the end result - a sparkling bathroom - and a beautifully dressed couple!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone’s kiddo and AP Cal today. Went out for new batteries for the calculator yesterday afternoon…</p>
<p>As for AP credit–many of our student’s schools do not offer any credit for the APs…and those that do–students at the school recommended opt’ing out of some and not others…I recall meeting a parent of a student who passed out of a level in bio and didn’t take the pass out. By the middle fo the yr- she was struggling in the colleges bio–thats how different it was…</p>
<p>In some ways the APs are just a BIG money maker for College Board and the schools</p>
<p>Some schools on LuckyBoy’s Big List take an unlimited number of credits, others are limited to 8 course equivalents, others only to non-major requirements, and just one or two don’t offer any credit for APs. </p>
<p>Since he is probably going into an interdisciplinary major (enviromental science/studies depending on the school), he wants to use as many AP credits as possible to eliminate core requirements. He’d then be able to take more economics or public policy courses, for example, depending on his area of concentration.</p>
<p>He said their AP Calc teacher told them all to relax after school yesterday, not do anything unhealthy (!), to get a good night’s sleep, and to eat a good breakfast. She was going to meet them at the classroom with sharpened pencils and fresh batteries for everyone. She really wants to keep her ‘5’ streak going I hope it works! Ds is not nervous (he has never had any sort of test anxiety, just “how am I going to get all this work done?” stress). I on the other hand… :eek: </p>
<p>You know, by the time LuckyLittlest '18 goes through APs I will be totally :D</p>
<p>Last night our student was in the garage “taking a break from studying” by working on the bridge for the physics competition…
a little “intense” this am–wanted to be at school by 7:20ish as the teacher wanted them in the room early…</p>
<p>Years ago - there were few AP courses–and my hs only offered AP Bio --I had to take the test on a Saturday…I recall kinda blanking out on the essay questions–where you had to do drawings–
I was working on one about how nerves transmit stuff…and drawing the molecules of something or other…anyway–I passed and got 8 hrs of bio DONE (2 semesters with lab) I was glad because it seemed from hearng other kids talk about it my freshman yr in college–that lab was a pain and always late in the day…</p>
He was scrubbing the tile grout! lol! I’m going to have to pay more attention to the girlfriend because apparently it is more serious than I thought! I had to use restraint not to take a picture of him detailing the tub… I think I’ll invite her back and offer her our room, my bathroom could use a good detailing! :)</p>
:D</p>