<p>JHClarinet! Good to hear it, just didn’t see the FL on that original list. Even when my kids thought they had schedules worked out in the spring they rarely actually worked in the fall when it would turn out half the courses met at the same time. Hope you have better luck than we did on that score!</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your replies, mathmom, blueiguana, and clarinetmom. I see now that he really does need the math analysis/calculus year before going on to AP. I’ll have him check into the physics to see what the recommendation of the school would be. </p>
<p>I need to calm down about the APs, as well as the school’s not weighting grades, and not ranking students. Blueiguana, your comment that they won’t compare with other schools but will look at his school was helpful. And I know that students from his school do fine.</p>
<p>I’m very glad I found this board because I can take my questions here rather than running around with my anxiety spilling over. The last thing DS needs is for his mom to make him neurotic! Lol.</p>
<p>Just had S’s 504 meeting. I was glad to hear he’s developing some sound work habits and is taking responsibility for his learning. He doesn’t procrastinate (which was and is D’s biggest problem). Next meeting we’ll discuss if he should take SAT or ACT (or both, or neither). </p>
<p>I think my biggest challenge will be finding the right mix of LD resources for him at a school he wants to go to. Right now he’s only mentioned a handful of schools, all big state schools, where I’m afraid he’ll get lost in the sauce…</p>
<p>We just got the info to start making decisions for my daughter.</p>
<p>My older son '12 was the math/science so I have that one down on how to pick classes and know what’s what, but now I have a child who is the opposite!</p>
<p>She started her school as a 10th grader and is now out of sequences on some classes.</p>
<p>We’re trying to figure out how many/if any ap’s she should take. </p>
<p>Could anyone speak to the two AP english classes and AP US Hist. How much work is involved, which english do you generally take first, and is ap us hist advisable if the first two years of hs were taking world history.</p>
<p>Usually Jr year is AP Composition and Sr year is AP Literature. APUSH for our kids is a killer in terms of time commitment. It really depends on what else your student is taking and their tolerance for reading and written work outside of class.</p>
<p>Standard progression in our HS is Language then Literature, but I know of other HSs that do them in the opposite order. It is also standard progression in our HS to do 2 years of world history in 9th and 10th and then US history in 11th. Those who don’t take APUSH take honors or other levels of US History. 12th grade does not have a history class required, but AP Euro and AP World are options. </p>
<p>My S1 didn’t take APUSH (and S2 is not planning on it either) but did take both English APs. They were both a lot of work, but less than say, AP Bio or AP Chemistry (which seemed to be the most time-consuming ones for my S1).</p>
<p>Hopefully your D’s teachers and or guidance counselor can help her make a reasonable decision about which history and English classes to take next year.</p>
<p>eyemamom - We’re in the same boat! DS12 was math/science and DD14 is all about the written word. She’s trying to balance out her schedule Junior and Senior year. She’d like to take AP Lang, AP Lit, APUSH, Precalc, Physics, Spanish 4 and Journalism next year and then Senior year take AP Spanish, AP Calc, AP Gov, Writing 121/122 Journalism and Forensics. The school doesn’t usually let juniors take AP Lit, but I think they’ll let her.</p>
<p>At DD’s school, AP Lang isn’t too hard. APUSH is a TON of work, but it’s not too hard to get an A if you keep up with everything. She’s taking AP Euro now and very few kids got As because only DBQs, FRQs tests and quizzes count. No chance to “fluff up” your grade with homework or project credit. DD was thrilled to squeak out a 91!</p>
<p>My D is filling out her schedule for Jr year. She has turned it around this year and I am very proud of her improvements. She has a 3.5 gpa and so far this nine weeks has all A’s.</p>
<p>She is starting to think about college and on the way to her ortho appt today said she wants to major in some sort of media, possibly theater and communications. I was so happy to hear that she is thinking about things. Her older sister is a senior and we had a melt down at our house a few days ago. D12 is 4.0 ranked #1 overachiever etc… Well, she received a big scholarship and that seemed to push D14 over the edge. She thinks she her sister is “the golden child.” </p>
<p>This is so sad for me because she is such a special, unique and very creative, artistic girl. She has many gifts but she doesn’t see them. I have been trying really hard not to make a big deal about her sisters accomplishments but it is hard. </p>
<p>But anyway, I was so happy to hear her bring up college without me badgering her. So I guess this summer we will visit a school…something that has a good theater dept. Oh, and I forgot to mention she was in a music video this year!</p>
<p>Hey, eye. Our hs offers AP English only to seniors, one sem of APLit, the other of APComp. Neither of mine are lit kids (breaks my heart), so AP English of any kind is to be avoided in favor of dual credit comp classes. I’ve helped some of d’11’s friends with their AP lit. Seems like a standard college freshman lit class, but with more busy work and hand-holding. For a high school kid with a full load of other classes, it’s going to seem like a lot to do, especially when done in a single semester. Spread out over a year, I can’t imagine it’d be that bad.</p>
<p>DS just worked out what he wants to take Junior and Senior years – we’ll see how it all fits in (or not).</p>
<p>Junior year: French 4, Honors History (10 or 11, whichever fits), AP Calc AB, AP Physics (C Mechanics), AP English Language, Engineering</p>
<p>Senior Year: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, the remaining History, AP English Lit, AP Calc BC</p>
<p>He might take AP Bio next year and save the Engineering block for Senior year. AP Bio is usually taken Junior year, but he pretty much has to take Physics next year because it is co-taught with Calc AB, and he’s in precalc now. Since he has no AP classes yet, 3 next year sees like more than plenty. I think it’s going to depend, at least in part, how the schedules all work out. Everything on his schedule except AP English Lit will only be offered in one section, and since he’s “misaligned” to his year having not fit in history this year, and being ahead of the usual progression in math, it’s hard to predict what will come together.</p>
<p>DD14 just found out her class rank today in conjunction with her National Honor Society induction next week. She’s ties for #3 out of about 130 (the number of students seems to keep changing!) She’s happy about the girl who’s #1 because she’s really smart and works really hard, but because she didn’t attend the school freshman year she’s not eligible to be val. She’s not happy at all about the boy who’s #2 mostly because he’s always sick from school or leaves early on days they have big tests so that he doesn’t have to take them on time and makes them up later - giving him more studying time! I can totally understand her frustration. All the honors kids have classes together (unless they’re in different foreign language classes) so they all notice this. Last time he left before a big chemistry test they commented on it to the teacher who said she knew what was going on but couldn’t do anything about it! Just seems so unfair to me.</p>
<p>My comments to her were that she’s involved in much more than he is and is respected by all her teachers and the school’s administration. Between her leadership at the school (and HOBY), running part of the school’s food pantry, being in two plays at once (school and outside) and other things, she’s got a lot more going for her than he does. We were talking about future teacher recommendations and she asked if the Principal should write her a letter because he knows her from a special community program he runs which she was selected as one of two freshman last year. If she wanted it, I’m sure he’d write her a glowing recommendation but that’s a long way off! And the class rank could change between now and senior year, but I wish the school could do something about this kid who constantly “works” tests to his advantage.</p>
<p>That’s my rant for the evening…time to finish up some work before I have to pick her up from working a new students event tonight - nice that she was so excited to go back to school to meet the prospective new students!</p>
<p>I understand your frustrations. It will catch up with him eventually. I am sure his LOR’s will show this. Thats why make up tests in my day were always harder than the actual test. </p>
<p>I have a question about NHS. I was told last year that its for juniors ONLY… should I have my daughter ask again? Her GPA is 4.56 and her rank is 7/184. So she would definitely qualify.</p>
<p>NewHaven: National Honor Society varies from school to school. Some start early and some wait until 11th. The value of it varies tremendously as well! Kids here have to do quite a bit of community service and peer tutoring as part of it.</p>
<p>NHS at our school starts in Jr year. GPA/rank is merely a screener. After that they must have leadership, service, etc. It is not a big deal unless you’re an officer since we’re such a large school. Many opt to focus on subject specific honor societies (science, math, foreign language). They are smaller clubs and the kids can get more involved.</p>
<p>In DD’s school they start in 10th grade based upon grades and honors classes (you have to have at least 3 sophomore year to qualify). They also have language but no other ones (DD wishes they had TriM which she was in at her old school in 7th and 8th grade - it’s a pink cord at graduation!).</p>
<p>It’s a small school which runs a HUGE Christmas shop for hundreds of families to “shop” for free gifts that’s run entirely by the NHS kids so the officers have a lot of work to do during the year - especially the fall. I assume some of the officers are Juniors but there’s also officers that run the food pantry so there are lots of leadership opportunities (although it seems to be many of the same kids involved in each). She’s looking to be a food pantry officer next year and train someone to do what she’s been running for the past two years. There is peer tutoring involved also but I’m not sure how much. It is something she’d like to get back to doing as she tutored for math in 8th grade and really liked it.</p>
<p>My S2014 didn’t take the AMC10 Tuesday because he didn’t have $2 on him and he didn’t want to borrow it. Ugggghhh!! His school won’t be offering it Feb. 22. I’m willing to take him to another school or site to sit for it if I can find someone offering it. I’ve reached out to the math chairs at the three closest public high schools and am waiting for replies. If you happen to know of anywhere in Northern Virginia offering the AMC10 on Feb. 22, please let me kno</p>
<p>@ dpr2college - It looks like GMU is giving the test. Scroll down to Virginia test sites. (10B simply refers to the 2/22 test date)</p>
<p>[Additional</a> Locations for the AMC 10B/12B at Higher Education Sites](<a href=“American Mathematics Competitions | Mathematical Association of America”>American Mathematics Competitions | Mathematical Association of America)</p>
<p>Thank you, blueiguana!!! I didn’t come across that page on the AMC website – probably too focused on being annoyed with my son for not taking it Tuesday. I will contact GMU. Gotta love this cc community!!</p>
<p>No problem! Glad I could help. I’d never heard of the test in all honesty. I found the page via google and a few clicks. Sometimes when you don’t know what you’re looking for you get lucky. 
If I’d wanted it I’d have never found it. I hope you are able to arrange the test for him.</p>
<p>I contacted GMU about S taking AMC10 at GMU. Also, I shared the link to the higher ed. locations on the 2013 thread. Parents there didn’t seem to know much about AMC. It’s not for everyone, but it’s a shame math kids miss the opportunity to shine because no one has told them about AMC. One of our largest and very highly regarded public high schools didn’t even offer it this year. They spend lots on nonacademic pursuits, which is important, but why won’t they shell out a few bucks to offer their math students a chance to shine? Reminder to self: Don’t rely on school to advise on the wealth of opportunities to be academically excellent. Thanks again, blueiguana.</p>