Be aware, Princeton basically gives the best need-based aid of any college/university in the country. Expect to pay more everywhere else. I am going to throw out Boston College as a suggestion. Bias note -- I have a kiddo there now. Jesuit/Catholic if that works for you. Philosophy there is strong. every student has t take 2 courses in it as part of the core and it is one of the most popular minors they have..Also has a classical studies major. Lots of outreach in Boston. Has the big time sports, but no Greek life. Note, with regards to financial aid, they meet full need bu they do take home equity in to consideration and for some people that will make it too expensive.

Note: Wesleyan is test optional, so kids with lower test scores don't submit them, meaning what you are seeing is artificially high. I'm not sure, but I think they require all enrolled students to submit scores later on which should be reflected in the common data set.

Brown and Hamilton

Maybe ask them what they're looking for, meaning what is the difference between the transcript and report card? Around here I know the report card and the transcript are the same thing at the public high school. For home school I've never done anything but a transcript.

The revised SAT contains trig and radians so definitely need to have seen them. They are typically pre-calc subjects. From the college board: Questions on the SAT Math Test may ask you to apply the definitions of right triangle trigonometry. You should also know the definition of radian measure; you may also need to convert between angle measure in degrees and radians. You may need to evaluate trigonometric functions at benchmark angle measures...

I would take a look at Dickinson, particularly their International Business and Management major. They are a CSS profile school, however, so not sure how that may look for you financially.

Re: Villanova 1. It's expensive and they don't meet full need, so even though you can pay your EFC, that may not help since you could get gapped, and need to pay more. 2. It's gotten much harder to get into the past 2 years. For the HS class of 2018 the acceptance rate was 29%. Probably will be that or lower this year.

Not straight up Arabic, but if you're willing to consider Catholic schools, DePaul in Chicago has an Arabic studies major. Might be too far for you, though.

Thanks all. Definitely did not have that question anywhere on everything we filled out.

Anyone know of a way I can guarantee my lefty has an appropriate seat for testing? I know nothing about the location where he's testing as none of the schools in our district are test centers. We specifically chose not to use the local U because they test 200 kids at at time in 400 person lecture halls where there are the pull-up "desks" that fit in the sides between the seats. Thanks

This. We have a discussion about this before ever applying to schools and it is as serious as the financial discussion. We are paying for you to go to school and that means going to class. Exceptions for illness are different. Class comes first, then your job (although we aren't fans of jobs freshman year), then EC's. I'll add that my kid has the same credit experience as 8"s. Over 18 credits requires approval by the dean and more than 21 isn't allowed -- it can't even be discussed. My kiddo is taking 18 this semester with no labs and is fine because it's 5 classes -- the way his 4 -year plan looks his other option would have been to take 14 credits which he wasn't keen on.

I would make sure none of the classes have minimum clicker requirements. They generally aren't a big percentage of the grade, but if too many are missed it can affect something that's borderline negatively. Also, just out of curiosity, how many credits are we talking about here? And why are all these kids taking such heavy loads? I know engineering can be 17 at times and labs are a beast.

Thanks!

So, my 16 year old DS loves to tinker. Things like the playstation remote acting weird? Cool, I'm going to take it apart and see what's going on. Or hmmm, the printer cartridges have chips, what happens when the printer says it's empty and rather than replace the whole thing, I trade out the chips to see if there's really still ink in it. And more. Obviously there needs to be way more to grant even a half credit of some kind of elective. He already built his own computer back in 7th grade so, going that direction isn't really an option, although he's constantly researching and upgrading what he has, but that's on him money-wise and right now I know he doesn't have much. Any thoughts/ideas? Thanks

Can't help on the music end, but....since you're talking selective schools, you need to be careful here. Some schools -- my older DS goes to one -- will not allow you to "double dip", meaning if the college course was used for high school credits, then it can't be used for college credits. You need to check at each school. Also, check on the CLEP credit if you're planning on using it to lighten his college load as well. Our state flagship, which is certainly not selective, only accepts a handful. Good luck!

Ursinus -- about an hour outside of Philadelphia

And just to add to more confusion -- my son's college doesn't accept any DE classes that are used to fulfill high school requirements even if taken at the CC campus. You really have to check on a school by school basis.

Has there been any info about the Oct. 13 testing date? That was the Saturday option which was used by all of the high schools here. Thanks.

Oh my gosh, thank you so much! This is more than I ever could have hoped for!! I'll have my DH read your response as well since he's the math teacher -- he's a physicist, so we leave it to him. Neither of us had a class called precalculus back in the day -- my progression was Alg. 1, Alg. 2, Geo, Trig/Analyt., Calculus (AB equivalent). He doesn't remember what he did at all -- went to three different high schools -- other than he ended with Calc BC. Again, thank you so much!

I've been researching precalc texts for DS and one thing I did was search what our local CC uses as well as the state flagship which happens to be our closest U. Anyway, the CC uses Lial which I've read a lot about here; however the U uses Swokowski and Cole: Precalulus in the engineering school and Axeler: Precalculus: A Prelude to Calculus in the college of A&S. Anyone know anything about either? I don't. DS is thinking engineering, but isn't sure yet. Thanks.

Not sure what schools you are specifically talking about but since you mentioned Pittsburgh, know that CMU will have nothing for interested/accepted students during spring carnival which is April 11-13, 2019. Also, most Catholic/religious school will not have anything over Easter -- my DS"s school is closed April 18-22. And, finally, many Massachusetts schools will be closed on April 15 for Patriot's Day. Oh, one more thing, just in case, Pitt's last day of classes in April 19 -- you'll get a very different vibe after that as students prepare for finals. Good luck planning!

My 11th grade DS is at about 6-7 hours a day plus time on the weekend. He carries a lighter load in the fall due to his sport -- competition days can take 11 hours from the time he wakes up until he gets home and he's tired so no work on those days. The spring will be more.

Jumping in to say how excited my son is about this class. He's a tech kid and totally gets that things like yesterday happen. I will say he's the kid who once he's done the required lab parts wants to go farther and see what he can "break". Should be an interesting year.

Thanks. I'll check it out.

Sounds like a good idea, but I'm not sure. This is a kid who has said he needs more structure and accountability, i.e., not mom, when it comes to things he doesn't particularly enjoy. Foreign language fits that category. But I'll run it by him. Any other ideas?