Well, somehow, it would appear that this struggling son of calc 1) pulled up the grade to a B- and 2) the teacher somehow magically rounded up to a solid B in the final grade upload. Not sure if that was a senior transcript present or not but I’ll take it. @CoyoteMom I hope you end the semester with a similar result!
So kid ended up with a better than expected gpa all around and his overall gpa inched up a tiny tad. Which is far better than the alternative. Kind of annoyed as he threw away a half point in APES by not doing the January composting (which he always does on his own!). Apparently she didn’t “remind” anyone (shouldn’t have to) and the whole class spaced. Of course all the AP classes are B/B+ and the remainder all A’s but that’s ok. I don’t expect it will mean anyone will toss more money his way but it looks solid from a transcript perspective and not a really a drop from junior year.
I agree with all on the tutor aspect, he has had one before in math and it has helped. He flat out doesn’t want one right now. That may change for 2nd semester as he does see the $ value of passing that AP test.
On that subject though, it occurred to me this week as I was really seeing what his credits now and potential would do and something hit me. UNLESS the kid has enough credits to really cover a at least half a semester it doesn’t help a whole lot. You need to be able to drop to part time for one semester at a minimum, for that to “pay off”.
To that end I did send in one of his DE transcripts, his Pre-Calc “college in the classroom” which is UW credits 3 of the schools, one of which we’ve dropped to see if it would recieve credit or not. One school will not evaluate unless he matriculated but the other 2 both gave credit ( and interestingly enough the same amount of credit 3.34 which seems a very odd number of credits lol) and in both cases it either satisfies a gen ed or an elective. A 4th school I know takes it so I didn’t send it. The other 3 will not. I know the whole paying for college credit at the HS level for classes taken at the HS is debated as being valuable or not so it was interesting to see if that investment paid off or not. In his case, I think it did, especially if he ends up at a school that takes the credits lol. S19 chose not to do it, arguing that he’ll have AP tests for both AB and BC and those would be better and equal in terms of credits (and cost less). I hope he is right.
We need to register (and pay for) all AP tests by 2/17 so he will need to decide what he is testing for. He really should go for them all, it’s safest. AP lit does not count at UVM but other than that, they all count. I think we can cancel the test registration afterwards but need to check into that (I recall kids doing that last year with Physics).
Small music update. Recorded audition successfully transmitted and received by the Head of Bands/Dept Chair who “really enjoyed it”. It goes on to the trombone teacher now and they will let him know. Seems to be a fairly quick turnaround but I expect notification will be snail mail, not email.
He had a complete meltdown though about preparing 4 pieces for the live audition (2 jazz, 2 classical). Which killed me. The kid mucked up the original audition sign up, then had me add the jazz and now wants to cancel the jazz. So I made him do it. I suspect the assistant director of the program thinks we are both idiots at this time. Of course the two auditions are scheduled at different times and we can’t tell which one is which! UGH.
On the positive side, dropping the jazz piece has gotten him moving on 2 other scholarship apps, one of which needed a very specific LOR so he actually (finally) requested that yesterday. So that’s something.
@snoozn bummer about the OSU honors college, I would have thought she had a solid shot to be honest but I also don’t know that much about it.
@mackatarinasmom what a lovely personal phone call! Fingers crossed for honors college and decent FA.
@Hankster1361 that is really good to know about WSU. I don’t expect S19 to make NMSF but you never know at this point with him and he is likely to be on the gpa bubble for sure. Darn foreign languages…the gpa killer.
@tacocat333 ugh, mixed blessing on Dickinson. It’s why it wasn’t on our list much as I think it would have been a really lovely school for S. There are so many schools that fall into that bucket for the B+ kid with no need. It is depressing. They will give you some…but not enough.
@curiositycat333 congrats on OSU. Even if not unexpected it’s still a really fabulous option and fit for your S. I would choose it over U of O as well, largely based on price but the kids we know that have gone there have absolutely loved it.
@MSU88CHEng that is flat out odd but these late emails generally are. Odd and…desperate. Or they want to inflate their admission % (hello Reed, talking to you).
Thanks to all for the support on S Calc struggles! S is definitely like