<p>“96 hours, until the war begins,” ( finals).
If she does well this could be the first time in her highschool grading of all “A’s” no minus or pluses ( fingers cross) .
She has grown tremendously this year and the time commitment of school has been brutal at times but she has risen to the occasion.
Even if she doesn’t get straight A’s, I’m still very proud of what she has achieved this year.</p>
<p>Now only if I could say this about ACT prep oh well…1 out of 2 isn’t so bad 
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<p>Good luck to all our kiddos who are gearing up for finals.</p>
<p>I have found with my son’s applications last year that they are not really interested in weighted gpa’s but rather look at the unweighted gpa which seems kind of unfair. Any one else experience that? </p>
<p>Sons FINALLY got their ACT scores back from April. No improvement. Ugh. So much for the college test prep course they took this semester. Try one more time in June. </p>
<p>@kmanshouse did you get the get the TIR to see where the major errors were?</p>
<p>Well there are 11 study days until the June ACT. DS will be taking a full length practice exam under test conditions tomorrow afternoon with his tutor as the proctor. With all the study sessions and finals this week, I’m hoping he and I both come out just a little dinged and not damaged. ~X( </p>
<p>@Hoosier96 - not sure what TIR is, but we got the reports showing the component scores. My one son went up 3/4 of a point but the rounding took him to the same score (he was rounding up before, now rounding down). If he goes up one more 1/4 point, he will get one point higher on the test (he’s at 24.25 right now). </p>
<p>My other son actually went down 1/4 point. The son that went down a 1/4 point was angry - he said he tried the test prep class techniques and did worse on Reading/English/Science. He did go up 3 points in math, which is by far his worst subject, so that was encouraging. I told him in June, to just forget the class stuff, go back to the way you did it the first time. Maybe that will get the other three scores back up and keep the math where it is. If that happens, he’ll probably get the ACT score we need to save $$$. He is sitting at 25 and we need a 26. </p>
<p>Good news though, is grades are looking decent this semester and they should be holding serve there. It’s hard to improve the GPA that much at this stage. My one son with the 3.000 exactly looks like he will get a 3.14 this semester and keep in this range. My other son will hold steady around 3.1-3.15 or so. So for college apps at least their GPA will start with a 3, thank God. It also keeps Mississippi State in play for the 3.000 son, in case he is denied at Stevens Point’s Natural Resources school. Mississippi State gives 1/2 OOS discount at 3.0/22 ACT through junior year - which he will make. They give full OOS discount at 3.0/26 - I think that is a stretch at this point, but that’s okay.</p>
<p>TIR is the answer sheet for the test. It shows you what question or type questions that are not right. It is available 3 test a year. April is one of them.
It Also becomes another practice test you can use.</p>
<p>Interesting - I wonder if that is available with the test they took, because they did not take the national ACT, it was the Illinois-issued PSAE test.</p>
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<p>As far as i understand, most colleges prefer to weight GPAs by their own formulas. So if a kid has a lot of advanced courses, the college will look at that, but high schools weight so differently that they can’t compare apples to apples unless they deconstruct and re-weight in a uniform fashion.</p>
<p>They absolutely know the difference between a kid with a 3.0 in easy courses and a kid with a 3.0 in difficult courses.</p>
<p>It makes sense to look at the UW grades and then adjust however they want to for rigor. I know HS’s that don’t ever weight anything (even AP), ours barely weights anything, and some weight all H and APs (and APs are +2.0). Since there is no standardization in the weighting of grades, I don’t think it’s unfair that they look at the UW GPA. After all, most colleges stress that they consider course rigor along with the GPA.</p>
<p>As far as reporting unweighted. My s15 is one of those kids that gets A’s in regular classes but B’s in honors. His. HS does not weight in their GPA but gives a weighted and unweighted class rank. His weighted class rank is about 15 higher because of the 7 honors/AP classes he has taken even though most have been B’s. But I do think it encourages some kids to not take honors classes. I think taking the honors in the long run is the right thing to do to get ready for college and to push the students thinking. My son did pretty well on his ACT the first time with no prep because I think - he has been pushed in some honors courses. </p>
<p>Are there any 2016 parents on here ready to start a thread for “our” year of 3.0-3.3 students? I can’t seem to figure out how to get a discussion started in “class of 20xx” designation - though I do see the new discussion button on the regular parents page.</p>
<p>I participated heavily in the 2013 group and loved the supportive comments. I’ve enjoyed lurking on the 2014 and 2015 threads, and am trying to wrap my head around the fact that it’s time to go through this again with my newly minted junior.</p>
<p>@kmanshouse- I don’t believe that the TIR was available for the IL PSAE/ACT</p>
<p>@mamaduck I’m in the '16 group and will need support because my S is truly different than my ''15 D.<br>
I think if you pm @bunheadmom she maybe direct you how to start one</p>
<p>I didn’t see the TIR for IL PSAE/ACT either. (But, then again, we’re mostly trying to forget that test ever happened.) </p>
<p>@mamaduck,
You can probably start it in the parents forum and then the moderators will move it to here. Yes, I noticed that there is no “new discussion” button on top of the page, which likely is because they recently created this page a few months ago with the new cc.</p>
<p>Nooooo!
DS got a C+ in AP Bio, something like 79.1%. The aggravating thing is that he had done his study guides and labs on time, but would often “forget” to turn them in, or “think that he did not have to turn them in.” Had he actually turned in this work that he had done, he would have scored a B-. It’s so frustrating. Sometimes his dad and I think we should have him go to community college for a year or two. It’s the ADHD inattentive and EF disorder. ACT is 35.</p>
<p>As for college apps, I think that most colleges evaluate UWGPA and then look at the rigor of the schedule (AP/honors). Some colleges may recalculate GPA based on their AP/honors criteria, but other folks on cc have disagreed with me, thinking that the volume of data is too much, But I can’t imagine professional institutions just “ballparking” it. Our HS reports both UWGPA and WGPA.</p>
<p>Our HS reports only W GPA and class ranks are based on W GPA. If colleges and universities request UW GPA, I guess we will recalculate ourselves. Our district is huge (3000+ graduating seniors), I can’t imagine the majority of the institutions that seniors apply to recalculate the GPA based on a 4.0 scale.</p>