<p>Our school does not have Naviance either. All classes thru sophmore year are pre-ap classes. She will take AP US History, AP Algebra II/Trig, Concurent Psychology, English Lit. I next year. She will be studying this summer for the ACT and PSAT during a summer course.</p>
<p>@Sophomore1 - What is AP Algebra II/Trig?</p>
<p>My DS16 is going to take APUS for sure, working out the rest.</p>
<p>As far as I know, the College Board only offers four AP Math courses:<br>
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
AP Computer Science A
AP Statistics</p>
<p>Perhaps Sophomore1 means her student will be taking advanced level Algebra II/Trig (her school might weight it the same as an AP course) that feeds into the AP Calc track?</p>
<p>S will be taking the APUSH next year as well. no other AP for him. WhichâŠfor himâŠis good. He has to really work at getting some Aâs on his transcriptâŠjust a fewâŠ? </p>
<p>@petrichor11 â Once upon a time colleges were looking for well-rounded kids. Now colleges are looking for kids with a âpassionâ. But theyâre looking for kids whoâve accomplished something with this passion, i.e., something that will reflect back onto their college in a favorable way. Theyâre looking for an oboe player for their orchestra. Theyâre looking for a kid who can swim a 100 yd breaststroke in under a minute. Theyâre looking for a kid whose math league team won a state championship. If youâve got something like that, the other checkboxes donât matter so much.</p>
<p>Our problem is that S!6âs 100 yd breaststroke time is a 1:02.</p>
<p>âŠand my S doesnât swim if he can help itâŠ! 
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<p><@Sophomore1 - What is AP Algebra II/Trig?></p>
<p>Sorry, this is not AP, it is a concurrent class.</p>
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<p>It is a concurrent class. I goofed. It is required at her school to get into AP Calc.</p>
<p>Asleepatthewheel, S has something kinda like that, yeah (itâs niche enough I donât want to go into details on a national forum). As long as he keeps his grades up, itâll be helpful. If not, it wonât matter at the junior college!</p>
<p>So what do your kidâs AP classes do once the AP exam is over? Do they have a final exam? Project? Or does your child just gain a study hall until school lets out?</p>
<p>Sâs Music Theory class has a song-writing project to do, and his Calc class has been assigned to create their own exam (which is then distributed as a study guide for the real one). Iâm not sure what D is doing in AP Lang, to be honest. Sheâs not as forthcoming as her brother, the King of Oversharing.</p>
<p>Finals loom and what concerns my son the mostâŠcould it be his geometry grade or maybe chemistry nawâŠnoâŠthe opening of Godzilla movie.</p>
<p>D asked if he wanted her to help put together a written study calendar ( which does help) naw he told her âIâm good Iâve got it all up here,â (pointing to his head), yeah right.</p>
<p>If he comes out alive, from finals, I may list him on Craiglist to buy: For sale 1 sweet, underachieving, smart male, able to talk all day about trivial matters and interject his thoughts on world concerns.
Free to loving home but will not except returns.</p>
<p>Not really about college per se but - have any of your kids just started driving? DS16 turned 16 on Wednesday and has his permit now. We only have stick-shift cars, so heâs learning that way, and has had exactly one harrowing hour so far. (In MA, the permit comes at 16 but then the practice hours and no license until at least 16.5)</p>
<p>@Hoosier96â - LOL at your comment. I am sure many of us here can identify with your craiglist ad !!</p>
<p>S took the AP world history test yesterday - according to him, it went very well. He had been doing really good on their practice tests - keeping fingers crossed for a good score.</p>
<p>@fretfulmotherâ - S turns sixteen tomorrow. We are in MA as well - I plan on enrolling him for classes as soon as he gets home. Hopefully, he can get enough of the driving lessons over the summer. But I am not driving with him - I am a nervous nellie - will leave the driving to H!!</p>
<p>My Sâ16 has had his permit since November our state 15 1/2 then 16 1/2 for permanent lincense, if you take a certified drivers ED class otherwise itâs 16 and 9 months; 50 hours of documented hours behind the wheel.</p>
<p>@arisamp - to bring this directly into CC territory, we did tell DS16 that if he gets a full merit ride, we will buy him a car. 
I thought I would be leaving the driving to DH like you, but then we were there, in a parking lot, and I thought, why not. It was so funny in the RMV (which is always sort of awful to go to as Iâm sure you know) - all the pairs of parent-child waiting for their permit. Most really kind of looked/acted like one another in an owner-dog kind of way which I thought was hilarious. And then every parent I saw, at the end (we were last of the day, sigh) made the same joke, âok, want to drive me home? Ha ha!â to his/her kid.</p>
<p>Also - DS16 did take the AP World History yesterday (he said his teacher writes it as âWHAPâ 
) and said it went ok, no harder than the practice tests.</p>
<p>@Hoosier96 does that mean three of us [so far] on this thread have May98 babies?</p>
<p>No mineâs Jan98; waited a little longer on the permitâif he does not mature soon There is no way I am allowing a two-ton vehicle under his bottom.
He drives all the time with H but not me, we have mutually understanding that I want to remain alive </p>
<p>I also have a May '98 son. He will be 16 on May 30. Iowans can get their learnerâs permit at 14, then take driverâs ed immediately upon getting the permit. Once they pass driverâs ed, they can get a special school liscense (even at 14) to be able to drive alone to school and school activities. I think the student has to live at least a mile from school in order to get the liscense. </p>
<p>S just got his permit a month or so ago, he didnât really seem interested at 14. I have had him at a big cemetery to drive a couple of times, he had to get home work in and his geometry grade up before I would take him. I chose a cemetery because if he hit someone they were already dead anyway. (hee hee).</p>
<p>I will make him wait awhile to take driverâs ed. His grades are not good enough for good student discounts on car insurance, we live where he can get places on his bike (including his orthodontist and pediatrician) and there just isnât much need.</p>
<p>@bajamm That is so interesting about the age 14 thing! My DH had something similar in TX growing up, though in his case he got the 14yo license due to hardship (FIL was in a wheelchair at the time). When DS16 was about 8 years old, he said, âthey should let people my age drive, then take away the license when youâre an irresponsible teenager, and give it back when you are a grown upâ. I think there might be something to that ideaâŠ</p>