<p>Not really. Since d has decided to drop band/jazz band, she’s looking at year without 6:30 am starts. That alone should make a huge difference in how she feels about her workload.</p>
<p>My D’14 is excited for her junior year. I’m the one wondering how she’s going to balance the increased load and the thousand EC’s she invariably wants to participate in.</p>
<p>Rescuing from page 4.</p>
<p>Apollo6 - congrats to your S14 for the Yes program. :)</p>
<p>^ thank you. : )</p>
<p>Scheduling snafu here. D came home yesterday and told me they will not be offering her honors latin iv next year or ap latin. Basically, stick a fork in it, her foreign language is now over.</p>
<p>Now there is a hole in her schedule and we have to choose a different class. Any recommendations for a non science/math girl? What do kids do when they add in other classes that are probably unlike the sequential classes she’s taking up til now. There are classes like psychology, economics, and various things like that. Do I just let her pick what looks interesting? The only problem is wondering if we have her do an AP or a regular, since her language was “honors” and those kinds of classes are only cp or ap.</p>
<p>D2 took a culinary arts class when she she couldn’t get into her first choice. It was fun. She got to eat during school. ANd they made things I’d never make at home (and wouldn’t teach her). I have a fear of yeast breads. Not d2. </p>
<p>Honestly, I wish I’d made d1 take that one, too. </p>
<p>So, let her pick what looks interesting, but urge her to look at something that might also be useful.</p>
<p>Popping in to say congrats to Apollo’s son! </p>
<p>Also, my daughter’s forecasting is in and based on her junior year, her senior year will have 6 AP classes. Is this doable?</p>
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<p>It depends which ones, how well prepared your daughter is for them (what prior classes has she taken on the subject), and what the workload is for the class in her high school.</p>
<p>My S1 took 5 AP classes and didn’t find it too bad, but one of them was AP Computer Science, for which he was very well prepared, so it was easy for him. He worked harder Junior year with only 2AP classes. Just the way they all worked out, I think, and the fact that some of his non-AP classes were also a lot of work.</p>
<p>S doesn’t seem too worried about next year, but he’s only looking at 1 AP for sure (Latin). He’s likely to take more (Chemistry, US History, one or both of the English tests), but they don’t teach specifically to the tests at his school, so he’ll need to consult with his teachers in the spring and decide then.</p>
<p>On a happy note, he was just accepted to the Johns Hopkins summer engineering program for high school students in Baltimore, so he’ll be spending a month down there. It will give him a chance to explore whether he is as interested in engineering as he thinks he is. I hope it will also get him a little more excited about thinking about college, and jump-start him into junior year.</p>
<p>My son has yet another choice for next year: a year in Beijing or Shangjai with NSLI-Y! Wow! He’s two for two and notifications for United World Colleges come out next week. When he found out he texted, “this is the part when I start to freak out!”</p>
<p>I don’t know if he feels the stress about junior year. He was very confident about his course load when he scheduled in Feb. The student is suppose to get permission if he/she takes more than 2 AP classes. I also asked him about it and his comment was "We thought that I would be so overworked this year- with APUSH- and I feel like I can push myself more. He is signed up for AP Stat, AP Euro and AP Lang. But the class that I am worried about is Chemistry and it will be unweighted. Yikes…</p>
<p>I also think this spring with all the away tennis matches are a clue that spring is tough. Luckily he has an awesome APUSH teacher who is running study sessions and his other grades are safe even if he drops a little.</p>
<p>Sounds like a lot of exciting things are happening for these kids. Way to go to everyone posting great news.</p>
<p>wow Apollo, congrats again to your S!</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement. We are pretty nervous about whether he’ll get into UWC and whether UWC will let him defer or not. He really wants to learn Chinese and has already declined Malaysia. A year of intensive Mandarin in China would be great but I think two years in an international IB boarding school would be even better. He cannot imagine going back to his mediocre school after a year in China and he’s starting to feel uneasy about his other option which is to go our state boarding school for juniors and seniors when he returns. It is much better than the public school that he currently attends but they aren’t very flexible about required courses and some of the requirements would be a little tedious after his prior studies. The best case scenario would be for him to go to China and then do two more years of study at a UWC and graduate with an IB diploma in 2015. We should know by Wednesday…</p>
<p>Well, he got denied for UWC so he will go to China for a “gap year” between sophomore and junior year and join the Class of 2015. It is the only way he can graduate from a better high school. The state boarding school requires attendance for both the junior and senior year. He only needs U.S. history and 4 English credits to graduate but there is no sense in him going back to his mediocre school for one year in order to graduate with the class of 2014. I am slightly disappointed because I was hoping to have the next three years settled, but he’ll reapply to UWC while he is in China and have the state school as a back up.</p>
<p>Rescuing from the bottom of page 6! :eek:</p>
<p>In part to “rescue” this thread again, and in part because I’m wondering- when are your kids planning to start taking ACTs and SATs? Had my (current junior, 2013) daughter take the subject test in world history last year in part as a learning experience, and in part in hopes that maybe she’d rock it after finishing AP world and be done with one. I’m thinking of having my 2014 son take it too for the same reason- the experience while he has just finished a ton of studying.</p>
<p>D14 is planning another “practice run” at the ACT in September. She took it as a 6th grader, and is hoping to do a little better this time! She will also take the ACT as part of the Michigan testing with her class in March.</p>
<p>Right now, no plans to take the SAT or any subject tests. If the PSAT shows any hope of National Merit, then she will take the SAT.</p>
<p>D14 will probably take the SAT either right before or right after SAT. From what i’ve read on other CC threads, it makes sense since the student will be preparing anyway. We’re thinking ACT late fall, early winter. The goal would be to retake tests if she needs major score improvement in the spring so that by fall of senior year, she can at least apply to some school early action or early decision.</p>
<p>S’14 is taking world history subject test in June; PSAT in Fall; SAT probably in January, and ACT in June next year.</p>
<p>One thing I learned with his sister – if your child needs to take SATs a few times, don’t cut it too close. She took them in January; we signed her up again to take them in March; she woke that morning with 102 fever (and was fine the night before).</p>
<p>I wish I knew. D2 flat out refuses to take the SAT. She’s signed up for the ACT prep course next year. She’ll need to take it once in conjunction with that course. I’m thinking she’ll take a crack at it in October or December, then take it again in April. Would love to be one and done.m if she could score at the top end of her PLAN range, we could be.</p>