<p>Thanks for the wonderful wish list. S will take today. I’ll do a special Starbucks run before waking him up in about an hour.</p>
<p>He is feeling the pressure. I wish there were a happy middle between apathy and stress.</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>
<p>Woke S up then went out to get him an egg sandwich. Snow day yesterday so at least he got to sleep in. It’s brutal when they take this test after waking up early 5 days in a row. And why couldn’t it start at 9? or 10? </p>
<p>D’s flight was canceled twice already. Now she’s flying from Atlanta through Chicago to NYC. It’ll be good to have her home.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone taking the big test today.</p>
<p>blueiguana, your coffee and omelet is very good and best luck to all SAT takers today!</p>
<p>Happy thoughts to all those taking the test this morning. We are still waiting on scores. Its been 10 days, but whose counting?? 
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<p>I would love a lobster omelette with a side of home fries, homemade whole wheat toast and peach preserves… shoot, just hand me a loaf of hot/fresh out of the oven bread with butter and I’m golden! LOL</p>
<p>She too had ANOTHER snow day yesterday… was able to sleep in and one of her activitities at the Yale School of Medicine was canceled today d/t the med students being on spring break. So another day of sleeping in. She is in the process of working on another app for a summer program. This one is for research at Yale U for 6 weeks. One must be nominated/its highly competitive. Only 25 slots and 125 + juniors apply. They have never had kids nominated/apply from her school which is odd because of their close relationship with the Yale School of Medicine. Apparently no one had heard of it until I asked the chemistry teacher about it.</p>
<p>Are any of your 2014ers looking at the CTCL? I am encouraging her to look at the website/figure out if any of them interest her. What are your thoughts on these schools?
I would love any feedback you have about them! </p>
<p>Thanks for the warm/hearty breakfast.</p>
<p>NewHaven…my twinDs have explored a number of CTCL schools. One that jumps out, just reading your recent post re: med/science, is Rhodes. She should check out their website as well as a series of YouTube videos that give you a feel for the school.</p>
<p>@Leads, thanks! So many schools to investigate, so little expertise. 
It can be quite frustrating… is it me, or do they all look start to look the same after awhile? They all look so perfect on the websites…</p>
<p>Good luck to all SAT test takers today! No snow here on the west coast–beautiful blue skies! DD and I had to drive 3 hours north for one of her EC’s yesterday so she was able to do some SAT prep in the car. The first time she took it last fall she was totally caught off guard that the essay had to be written first. She hated the prompt and it made for a long grueling four hours. She much preferred the ACT format but I had registered her for the SAT before we figured it out. Since the writing section was her weakest, I’m hoping she’ll just persevere and she’ll be done with this test for the rest of her life! </p>
<p>Funny, last weekend my mom came over and brought MY PSAT scores. Okay, I didn’t know that I took the PSAT! Shows how focused on standardized tests my generation was! My scores were SOOOOOOOO bad! Hilarious! And yes, I’ve gone on to finish college, have a career and a happy life! </p>
<p>I wish DD would look at CTCL. Our high school counselors are huge fans. Unfortunately most of them are small and DD wants at least 5000 students.</p>
<p>^^^^I’ll have what she’s having. LOL</p>
<p>Hello,
I’m late to the party! I’ve been part of other groups at CC as I have S1- a college sophomore, but I also have S2 who is a HS Jr.- like your kiddos. He is also at SAT (first sitting) this morning. I walk on eggshells when he feels the pressure- feed him, listen to him, but basically leave him alone til the pressure eases. I made him a grilled cheese sandwich this morning- he isn’t an eggs and toast kind of guy. I filled a water bottle and gave him a granola bar and said “good luck” and off he went- came back in less than a minute later, said “this water bottle sucks” and filled a different one and left again. Sigh…
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I get very caught up in my kids’ journeys. Try not to show it, but the anxiety builds. I thought I would do better after my DS1 launched (very successfully) into college, but it appears that I do not have it under control. I will try to maintain outside interests, work, exercise to keep my runaway thoughts under control, but it is hard for me. Anyone else out there?
I am looking forward to a wine tasting luncheon today… so there is a glimmer of hope for me I guess!</p>
<p>It would be very funny to see our own standardized tests. I can’t even remember what I got but I know they are nowhere close to that of my kids. I suppose I should be happy that my next generation is doing better than me. Although, when I graduated from high school, I knew about fraction of what my kids know today about college.</p>
<p>I remember what I got on the SAT, but only because it is part of a family joke! DH and I got the same combined score (we met in college so it must have come up at some point back then) except that he got 800 on the math and my two scores were only 40 points apart, so I say that shows that I am more well rounded and he is lopsided.</p>
<p>DS scored higher than his parents did but is retaking it today because unfortunately in today’s world, his score is nice but not remarkable. Sometimes I wonder what his scores would be like if I had sprung for a tutor or a prep class. But I am cheap, so I handed him the blue book and he was on his own after that. </p>
<p>Oh to go back to the day when there was no test prep, you took the SAT once, and you were done with it forever!</p>
<p>Good morning everyone! It’s a gorgeous sunny day here in the Pacific Northwest. The geese are back, our three coveys of quail are waddling around on the front lawn and even the goats are chipper to see the third day of sun in a row. We were up bright and early to get Spygirl off for her first attempt at the SAT. I’m sending out good vibes and group hugs to all the kids and parents today. Fingers crossed for amazing results.</p>
<p>We won’t have the results back for our first college visit this spring break. But as another poster mentioned, that could be a good thing. I understand there is a “glitch” for the ACT and that results can be seen early. Is there something similar for the SAT?</p>
<p>Welcome Minnymom! And thanks for the awesome spread this morning blue and all. Dearest is off to write the heck out that SAT this morning. Frosty out there, but blindingly blue skies so we drove with the windows down and cranked some tunes. Hopefully she’ll be able to up that writing score! After a year of writing and writing for APEnglish11, I feel she’ll be fine. Good luck to all the other test takers! And thanks for the English Breakfast Tea. It’s going to be a lovely day!</p>
<p>Minnymom, it’s only 8:38 am where I live but I’ll start the virtual wine tasting luncheon right now! Can I pour anyone a nice Oregon Pinot or an oaky California Chardonnay?</p>
<p>I also feel so invested in my kids right now and their eventual “launch” to college and life. Does anyone remember the Scarlet Johanssen/Bill Murray movie “Lost in Translation”? It sticks with me to this day: “The most terrifying day of your life is the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it … is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk … and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life.” </p>
<p>Even when they give us the early morning stink-eye, I still feel that hopelessly in-love feeling that I’m sure will last a life time.</p>
<p>Add me to the list of taking the SAT once–back in the day–no prep.
Not stellar scores and yet I went to college, grad school and post grad.</p>
<p>K1s scores were far better than DH and I
K2 need decent scores to make up for not so stellar freshman year and then pneumonia last year. This year has been better so the upturn/graph runs in the correct direction haha</p>
<p>K1 did better on the ACT…
K2 will take it in June-- other dates and conflicts.</p>
<p>Just an intro note: I’m a long-time occasional lurker finally getting around to registering while my DD takes the SAT this morning. As the handle suggests, I’m a higher-ed insider (long time professor and senior admin at SLAC, public flagship, and Ivy), and now find myself on the other side of admissions discussions. </p>
<p>DD is leaning strongly towards small selective liberal arts colleges, though DW is pushing HPY. SAT and spring break college tour should help clarify. DD has academic focus (will be NMSF easily based on PSAT, IB diploma program, top grades) but more limited ECs in part because of family moves during high school. Loves music and politics but has exceptional skill in math. She is far more organized than her parents, having built a large spreadsheet on her own to compare colleges and develop her current top-10 list, and she manages time very well (as she must, given that her IB Theory of Knowledge class starts at 6:30am which means no late nights). </p>
<p>Even though I know she’ll be fine (if only because she is essentially an auto-admit at my current institution), I’ll admit I’m still nervous about the whole process.</p>
<p>go2mom – Since it’s 9:07 a.m. here, I’d love a mimosa to go with the DeBussy we have on the stereo. </p>
<p>Pull up a chair MinnyMom and welcome, 2104ProfDad, we’re a fun bunch :)</p>
<p>Welcome Minnymom & 2014ProfDad!</p>
<p>I hate to admit that DS’ 7th grade ACT composite score was better than my one shot at ACT back in the day! I like to think he was just really smart, not that I was really dumb!! haha! I spent too much of my time … uhh… not studying. 
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<p>As far as CTCL, [Hendrix</a> College](<a href=“http://www.hendrix.edu%5DHendrix”>http://www.hendrix.edu) has a very good pre-med program. They claim 85% med school acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Welcome, ProfDad–it’s nice to have another dad to chime in…</p>
<p>Your daughter sounds like she will have a lot of options. It seems like many schools like young women who have strong math skills even if they are leaning toward the humanities. Has she considered any of the DC schools? One school our CC recommended was University of Richmond. It’s slightly smaller than Georgetown, American and GW Uni but has a lot of leadership opportunities. Not sure how much if any they award to NMF’s. </p>
<p>I believe Agent99 asked if there’s a glitch for the SAT–I haven’t seen anything on the SAT threads to suggest that there is one.</p>
<p>I’m guessing a lot of Eastcoasters are now done. How did it go?</p>
<p>Welcome aboard 2014ProfDad. Welcome to the journey.</p>
<p>D just got home from the SAT. She said the math was easy with no trig in her test booklet and she finished ahead of time. The CR was tough as some of the passages were very obtuse and difficult to decipher with the vocabulary used in them. The sentence structure and language was fairly easy according to her. The writing section prompt was fairly generic and she said it was fairly easy to structure a response with a supporting defense to the question.</p>
<p>Now we wait to see how accurate her assessment of the test really was. :eek:</p>