<p>Hi Agent99 -
My scrapbook is a 3 ring binder with plastic page protectors and dividers for each college that I think is worth S 14’s time to consider. The first thing I put in the page protectors are the pages from the 2 ‘guide to colleges’ books from 2012 that are about to be obsolete. He has only visited MIT and Columbia, but I collected his ‘notes’ from both places and added them to the page protectors, which open on the top and act like pockets. I also plan to put school calendars in there, so I have hope of getting to campus visits while students are on campus. I’m so thrilled with my arts and crafts project. The giant books were overwhelming and hard to use. My son hasn’t seen the scrapbook yet, as I’m waiting for him to ask. But my husband mentioned it’s existence. </p>
<p>Good news: 1) Son made the basketball team at this High School - they don’t have a freshman team or a JV team so it was this or nothing. He is thrilled and so are we.
2) Son called one of his dad’s aquaintences who is an Engineer and asked about getting a summer internship. </p>
<p>Question: What do high school students usually put on there Resumes? Awards and Scholarships, sure, but also Grades? Courses? ECs? SAT scores? We won’t have trouble keeping it to one page, that’s for sure!</p>
<p>My son worked with someone from the vocational school attached to our HS help him with his resume in an effort to get an internship or job shadow last summer (though he didn’t end up getting any bites).</p>
<p>His sections are objective, education (includes “selected courses” but no grades (even though they are good)), personal qualities (good problem solver, etc…), skills (specific software packages), awards & achievements (here he did list his very high score on the Math SAT II which was the only score he had at that point – I’d list regular SAT scores here if they are very good), work experience (only one entry), activities</p>
<p>Howdy all! Is it too late to join this party? :-)</p>
<p>My name is Gina, and I have one DS who is 16 and a Junior. We’ve been preparing for college for a while, and as a single parent it’s pretty critical that I find enough aid in one form or another to cover most of the cost. Fingers crossed!</p>
<p>He took the SAT in the summer, and now we’re waiting on the PSAT/NMSQT scores from October to come back. We also just did the full-day organized preview for prospective students at his #1 choice, Texas A&M-Galveston, which was awesome. <em>I</em> want to be there! Lol. He had spent a week there at Sea Camp in the engineering program this summer, and the preview just cemented his desire to go there. His major of choice is Marine Engineering. </p>
<p>Anyways, now we’re just trying to decide whether or not to do the subject tests, and what other schools he wants on his short list, stuff like that. It’s all so confusing, the process… I’m so glad to have found these boards and this thread!!
Looking forward to talking to all y’all!</p>
<p>Congrats to your son, ParentSparkle! And of course, welcome crazy4disney! </p>
<p>This past week has been pretty rough for me and we just got some not so great family news today. Life is no fun. I am eagerly waiting for Christmas Break so I can hopefully get a few days off then, though I will probably end up working. </p>
<p>I’m mentally kicking myself because I really, really need to get started for my AP Chem/Chem contest/SAT 2 studies and I’ve kept putting it off, even though I need to finish a general Chem book by the end of Dec. and do Organic Chem by early April.</p>
<p>Is anyone here a chem major/person who knows how long it takes to learn General Chem well? The college course is 2 terms but I can’t DE and my school doesn’t offer AP Chem. Orgo is also 2 terms, so I have my work cut out for me. O_O</p>
<p>ecouter11 – sorry about the bad family news. Hang in there.</p>
<p>crazy4disney – welcome! re: subject tests – as I remember from D’11, the selective schools want at least 2. She ended up taking Math 1, US History, and World History.</p>
<p>S’14 took one subject test – World History. I’m not sure he’ll take any more because his target schools don’t ask for them.</p>
<p>So glad you found us! CC is a great place to be. I have learned an incredible amount of information from these folks. I would be so lost without them.</p>
<p>Welcome crazy4disney. Just one bit of advice is that you may want to “hide” your identity a bit. Teens have a way of getting annoyed if they think you’re talking about them and anyone might be able to identify them. Since you will probably find this forum a great place to let out those inevitable frustrations (I can’t believe ds forgot to ask his chem teacher for a recommendation AGAIN!) better to err on the side of caution. I changed my original user name early on because I realized it was a bit too revealing!</p>
<p>Thanks for the welcome, everyone! Really glad to be here.</p>
<p>“Welcome crazy4disney. Just one bit of advice is that you may want to “hide” your identity a bit. Teens have a way of getting annoyed if they think you’re talking about them and anyone might be able to identify them. Since you will probably find this forum a great place to let out those inevitable frustrations (I can’t believe ds forgot to ask his chem teacher for a recommendation AGAIN!) better to err on the side of caution. I changed my original user name early on because I realized it was a bit too revealing!”</p>
<p>I’m not sure I understand at all… In all my years of message boards, I can honestly say that annoying my son has never been a concern, lol. Hell, I’m the first one to go post on his wall if he does something boneheaded. Keeps him honest, and his gf usually backs me up. :-)</p>
<p>I think the thing about keeping your name private comes in mainly if people post somewhat personal information like test scores, medical diagnoses, learning disabilities, etc. while asking for advice on strategy, schools to consider, etc. </p>
<p>Since you may not be sure right now if you’ll ever have occasion to post such things, it can be a good idea to maintain a fairly anonymous identity from the start, so that if you later do decide, you haven’t already shared enough information to connect your username to your real identity.</p>
<p>"We’re still awaiting PSAT scores and we’ll go from there. DD hasn’t scheduled any testing yet, but she’s definitely an ACT kind of kid so she may switch gears and start studying for the ACT rather than the SAT. " - Agent99</p>
<p>When did we decide PSAT scores come in? I think it is December or January, depending on your kiddo’s h.s. policy - does that sound right?</p>
<p>DS signed up for the Jan. SAT doesn’t want it to conflict with EC (March) or finals/ APs (May). Don’t know if he will be ready, but . . . whatever.</p>
<p>He will take a couple of SAT Subject Matter tests in June, right after his corresponding APs.</p>
<p>May visit some schools in the spring or summer - not really on the radar right now.</p>
<p>I posted the following on SAT preparation thread. But wanted to get your feedback too. </p>
<p>Here is a math problem from the collegeboard online SAT prep:</p>
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<h2>In an art class, there were just enough staplers, rulers and glue bottles so that every 2 students had to share a stapler, every 3 students had to share a ruler, and every 4 students had to share a glue bottle. If the sum of the number of staplers, rulers, and glue bottles used by the class was 65 how many students were in the class?</h2>
<p>It is very easy to compute the answer if we realize that every student is using all three - stapler, ruler and glue bottle. Is it “had to share” or “used by the class” that indicates every student is using all three? I guess I am trying to understand how to understand the verbage when similar questions are asked. Any suggestions?</p>
<p>ParentSparkle: Congratulations to your son.</p>
<p>Agent99: DD isn’t signed up for April ACT yet, but that’s our plan. The little she practiced for SAT, she hated some of the questions and above is one of them. So I am thinking ACT may be a better choice for her than SAT. She will take the Dec 1 SAT.</p>
<p>happyORmom – this is why I hate standardized tests – I read the problem, and immediately started wondering: who am I sharing with? Is she nice? Is it that guy who always smells? It is a big stapler or the “mini” kind that never works? What if my glue bottle is all gloppy? etc.</p>
<p>glido – I was told firmly that PSAT scores come back in Dec (which is just around the corner) if your kiddo took the test in Oct. Didn’t realize it could vary by school.</p>
<p>DD’s school will give the PSATs out to parents at teacher conferences on the 13th. Two weeks from today! Hoping for significant improvement over 10th grade results as she’s now had geometry and had actually done a (little) bit of studying. We’ll see!</p>
<p>DD is enjoying a somewhat light week of school this week. It started off on Monday with a trip to Hyde Park, NY to look at source documents at FDR’s house. A very LONG trip from where we are - 4 hours there and 3 1/2 hours home! They had to be at school at 5:20 AM so I was VERY glad she finally has her license and could drive herself at 5 AM! She’s got the day off of school for a professional day tomorrow so we’re scheduled to see Northeastern. We’ll see what she thinks of a city school. She really likes campuses but it’s a quick day trip on the train for us so it’s worth it to see something different. Plus she may be interested in a PA program so it will be a different experience from seeing the liberal arts schools she’s seen in the past.</p>
<p>We saw Providence College on Columbus Day and she liked it - enough to apply as it should be a safety for her and hopefully she’d get enough aid there to make it affordable. It’s in the city but has a really nice sized campus that really feels like a college campus and not mixed in with the city. Only downsides are her Catholic school and others around here send a number of kids there. Also she’s not too sure about the two year Western Civilization requirement - after having Western Civ in 7th, 8th and 9th grades, she was really done with it!</p>
<p>I’ll post back about thoughts on Northeastern when we return!</p>
<p>Happyormom…i think the answer is 60 students and I agree that it hinges on everyone having all 3 items in the set ratios (with a common denominator of 12)…65x12/13 is 60.
Math I can do…reading sat questions sometimes yes
…sometimes no</p>