<p>I was thinking either an English or History major, or maybe Theater. </p>
<p>Erin’s Dad: that would be Michigan State and Iowa State.</p>
<p>I second the poster’s question re asking yourself why math science is so hard. Do you, for example, need to be tested/medicated for attention deficit disorder? My DD has a similar academic split as you. A tutor/teacher who backed up and taught her some techniques to improve her basic skills (e.g. for a while she used graph paper so that she was forced to space out the numbers on calculations - this simple step really improved her accuracy). Another tip that the last tutor told her is to actually READ the math book. Most people do NOT - except the ones that get an A. Every math teacher is different, and the class time does not always explain concepts as thoroughly as you would like. When she started reading the vocabulary in the book, and actually using that to study from, it really helped. A short funny story about this: I never read a math book in my life until I was in college, and was sick for three days in a row during the unit of math that was known to be hardest at my school. Out of desperation, I read the book. I got…an A. The rest of the class got Ds and Fs. The professor turned to me after handing out the test grades and said “what did you do differently?” He was mightily embarassed when the kid that was sick all week, and didn’t hear his lectures, did better than the ones hanging on his words, and I said that it was that I read the book. Guess HE needed to read the book!</p>
<p>Well, I’m currently taking normal-level (college prep) math and science courses. I think it has something to do with the fact that I’ve always attended public school up to ninth grade, and back then math wasn’t too hard for me. Starting at grade 10 last year, I go to a private school and generally courses have been more challenging. I know people are always encouraging you to taking “the most challenging and rigorous” courses that you can in HS, but the thing is alot of the normal CP classes here are probably more difficult than Honors or AP classes in my old public school. I do have a textbook in math(though’s it’s about 50 pounds, and I prefer to keep it at home), though my Chem class doesn’t use one. I’m pretty sure that I don’t have a learning disability at all, since I went through elementary, middle, and the first year of high school without any problems. </p>
<p>shoot4moon: That’s a very inspiring story you have there. I’ll keep that tip in mind!</p>