<p>@kandcsmom yes, thank you for that. I also figured if the classes were cheap enough you would be saving money because it is one less year you would be paying for a university</p>
<p>Well I start back today, my long summer break is over already. </p>
<p>@AsleepAtTheWheel DE is dual enrollment</p>
<p>@AsleepAtTheWheel: sorry! Dual Enrollment.</p>
<p>@kandcsmom - my DS16 just emailed today to WUSTL to ask if it’s a problem to take college courses while in HS and they said no, as long as it’s before his HS graduation. So that’s one school’s perspective confirming, at least!</p>
<p>Oh I should have mentioned that. No classes summer before freshman year. </p>
<p>S '16 picked up his class schedule and had his junior year pictures taken yesterday morning. Junior year starts on August 18! He seems satisfied with his schedule.</p>
<p>DS’s does not get his class schedule until 8/14. I think they give them out late to discourage changes. </p>
<p>Same here - d16 gets her schedule online on 8/15 and s18 gets his at orientation on 8/13 school starts on 8/25. I don’t think there will be any issues but you never know…</p>
<p>I’m chomping at the bit for d16 to return home (8/13) and get started on back to school shopping and PSAT/SAT prep!</p>
<p>Hello all, been busy pulling the upcoming year in order on top of finishing summer. Looks like all of you have been in a whirl of activity too.</p>
<p>I registered d16 for the October SAT. With all the PSAT prep, I figured it’s a decent time to take it (though it comes the weekend after she returns from a major figure skate competition…guess there’s no perfect time.) She has a minimum score in mind that she would like to achieve, and if she doesn’t hit that, she will retake. She won’t go crazy trying to max out the score though.</p>
<p>She’s homeschooling a few APs via online courses, and I’ve been tracking down books and lab supplies. So many details to get in place. She will do one class, orchestra, at the local school, and is running cross country there. Those practices started this week, and it was fun for her.</p>
<p>We start Thursday the 14th. The school did a phone blast to let us know they were sending the schedule at the end of this past week. It’s making D16 crazy. Hopefully it comes today and it’s not too big of a mess. She’s already had two weeks of marching band camp and has a featured solo in the show. We will be taking the ACT in December, better known as the gap between marching band and show choir combo. I really should get her registered for that. 
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<p>@AKFirefly – We are planning on the November SAT. We figured that it might help to have the PSAT experience under his belt prior to the SAT, and the extra few weeks will give S16 some time to prepare for the essay portion of the Writing section (which is not part of the PSAT). If you’re concerned about the timing of the October test vis-a-vis her figure skating, ?maybe consider the November date. As an aside, I think that he’ll take the Math2 Subject Test in January. . . . At some point you’ll have to post a link to a video of her figure skating. It would be a kick to see!</p>
<p>On a related note, S16 finished all of the SAT prep books that I had hoped he’d cover over the summer. S14 would never have done so in a hundred lifetimes. Now the challenge is to maintain that level of readiness over the next couple of months. I’m hoping he’ll do practice tests on a regular basis, although that may be a challenge in the face of a typically difficult junior year schedule and eight swim practices a week. </p>
<p>School starts here (VA) the day after Labor Day. S’16 is still working at Scout camp until Aug 20th. He has been gone the entire summer with only 24 hours off per week. He will have 12 days at home before school starts. The last week before school starts he will be taking behind the wheel so that hopefully he can drive himself to school next year. He is out of district so I have been driving him all of 10th grade. The weekend after school starts we have to drive D’13/'17 back to college in NJ. </p>
<p>No sign of schedules here but I anticipate his will be a mess and we will have to go in on “fix day” and spend hours waiting for our turn like we did last year. </p>
<p>S’16 is registered for the Oct SAT2 Math2 and will be taking the ACT again in Dec. He is taking an ACT Prep course through the fall. </p>
<p>D’16 finalized her schedule with the counselor on Friday. She has orientation on the 12th and school starts on the 18th. This summer has gone too fast, and I am not ready for her to be a junior, not to mention a senior next year!!</p>
<p>Schedule has arrived and D16 is happy. And I am relieved that they didn’t screw it up this year. </p>
<p>I just recently found this message board and have already found it to be a great source for info! DS16 did his first college tours this summer. I’m hoping it will motivate him to start doing better in school. Signed him up for the October SAT…doing test prep now.</p>
<p>I’m looking forward to spending more time on here!</p>
<p>Just registered d16 for November SAT. Have to find a place in her schedule for SAT2s. She will be one semester in for AP Physics C for January SAT ,but she took regular physics last year. I wonder if this will be enough for the SAT?</p>
<p>@carriemc95 – Welcome. Lots of good info and great parents on this thread. Feel free to post ‘trip reports’ here regarding the college visits.</p>
<p>@seal16 – My strong guess is that, given how well your daughter tests, as long as she checks out a review book or two (to make sure there are no topics on the test that she’s not seen/covered) that she would do just fine taking the Physics Subject Test in January. Given how overloaded the kids are in May/June, between semester’s end, AP tests, and Subject Tests I think she might actually be more prepared in January if it’s the only thing on her plate at the time.</p>
<p>@carriemc95 Welcome! There is so much great information here!!</p>
<p>@carriemc95: Welcome! This is an awesome group with some extremely helpful information.</p>
<p>@kandcsmom: congratulations on the solo! That’s a huge deal around here. Sadly, not for S16, but for whomever gets it. (Maybe next time…) Band camp finished yesterday here, as did ROTC physical conditioning. S16 is holding it over D16’s head that the band kids are out on the field longer than the ROTC kids are. She is not impressed. (She may be tiny and not terribly buff, but she has a rifle.)</p>
<p>No schedules out yet. I’m not looking forward to the yearly rigmarole of trying to make schedules work.</p>
<p>We did get the bus schedule: one child has bus privileges, one does not. We go through this every year. I have to call Monday and beg and plead and finally call the head of transportation and then, finally, by the second week of school or so, S16 has a bus seat. Which he almost never uses because…well…band.</p>