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    For those of us with rising seniors - IT IS AUGUST 1ST

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    39 minutes ago, ByGrace3 said:

    My first senior. A little overwhelmed. dd only wants to apply to two schools...that's it. One of them is not on the common app, so I am thinking she will just do the individual apps for both? Any reason to do the common app if its only for one school?

    I didn’t even know there were colleges that you could apply to directly, besides MIT and Georgetown and I think BYU.  If I had the choice I would just apply directly rather than messing about with the Common App. But probably you’re looking for advice from someone who has actually BTDT. 😝 

    Grading and transcript

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    1 minute ago, kokotg said:

    I've been told you should always list grades, even for outside classes where the teacher didn't give a grade. And that it's fine to base your grade on successfully completing the class/finishing all assignments/class participation, etc. This particular school may not mind some classes without grades, but that doesn't mean none of them will. 

    I wonder if the thought is that the homeschool class grades really don’t count much anyway since people probably do just assign A’s.
     

    I was very surprised that this school was so easygoing because they are reputed to be not particularly homeschool friendly. They were actually quite positive.

    Grading and transcript

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    2 minutes ago, EKS said:

    Despite what the admissions officer said, I would give grades for all classes.  I explained in the school profile that my students worked to mastery.  The high grades were corroborated by grades from outside classes and test scores.  If they hadn't been, I might not have used this approach. 

    That was what I had planned to do, because we do work to mastery at home. The homeschool group classes, though, were taught by people ideologically opposed to grading, so it feels wrong to assign a grade. I suppose I could ask them, but they might get mad at me for caving to The Man. 
     

    Maybe I should interview a few more admissions officers too…

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    Grading and transcript

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    I spoke to an admissions officer the other day who was surprisingly loosey-goosey regarding grading on a homeschool transcript. As in, no big deal if the homeschool classes don’t have grades, even some schools don’t grade, we have a lot of experience with this and can figure it out, don’t sweat it. 
     

    I’ve read so many things here saying that it is best to just assign grades for classes that didn’t have them and to do otherwise would hurt the student’s chances. I was trying to figure out a way to do this, because I certainly don’t want to hurt my student’s chances, but now I’m not sure what to do. 
     

    We do have a number of grades from outside classes and we have the SAT. Recommendations will come from outside teachers. For the homegrown classes and group classes that don’t have grades do I just list them without grades and then somehow weave that “learning for the sake of learning and not for grades” philosophy into the counselor letter? The AO said some official grades, some non graded homeschool classes are fine and it’s all good. But do I need to provide a GPA (I haven’t opened a Common App account yet, so I don’t know how it works) and if so, how do I do that with a mix of graded and non graded classes?

    Hornblower

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    26 minutes ago, Spy Car said:

    Terribly sorry to read this.

    Hornblower is a a person of substance and I've very much missed her presence on the forum.

    Bill

     

    I can’t say it better. One of my very, very favorite people here. Sending love and light, @hornblower 💗 💗 💗 

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    Posted · Edited by bibiche

    On 7/12/2022 at 2:11 PM, Farrar said:

    To me, you can have either homegrown credits or external validation of some sort. As I read this, it seems like you keep resisting the idea of giving home grown credits even as you reference reading literature in other languages and using the languages. I don't get the resistance. Give the credits. It seems obvious to me.

    I’ll absolutely give homegrown credits! 

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    Posted · Edited by bibiche

    On 7/11/2022 at 3:14 PM, chiguirre said:

     

    @8filltheheart I checked out College Confidential and it was seriously disheartening! And equal opportunity disheartening, not just for people testing out with Chinese AP. I’ll stick to here, thanks, where people are helpful and kind. 🙂

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    Posted · Edited by bibiche

    On 7/11/2022 at 12:17 AM, Matryoshka said:

    Also, there's what I did with my third kid... she wanted to quit languages, and she hates taking tests, so to document what she knew I ended up having her take CC classes in that langauge, which were self-paced.  She blew through units 3 & 4 in one semester when she was 14.  I totally wrote that up on her transcript as Language 1-4 (I did her transcript by subject, not year).  No eyes were batted. 

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    Posted · Edited by bibiche

    On 7/10/2022 at 4:14 PM, Alice Lamb said:

     Apparently, documentation is more important than knowledge in certain situations.

    😬 

    Airfryer combo oven thing? Recommendations?

    in The Chat Board

    Posted · Edited by bibiche

    I gifted the Cuisinart to someone recently and she raves about it. She says it takes a bit longer to make toast than a regular pop-up toaster, but that is the only complaint - as a toaster oven she says it’s great. She has roasted chicken in it, air fried, and baked in it and loves it for all of those. It’s the Cuisinart model recommended by Wirecutter, the one with the pizza stone (she hasn’t used that yet, so no review).

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    Supplemental essays

    in The College Board

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    Are the supplemental essays generally the same year to year at most schools? I thought we could start small with the supplemental stuff, but don’t want kid to waste time if they vary wildly year to year. When are they officially released anyway? On August 1?

    Quick refresh for me...keeping high school work

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    46 minutes ago, Farrar said:

    Brandeis, I think, was one? University of SC maybe, though I think they dropped that? Reed maybe? They're all a little different in what they had down and when students had to do this.

    Brandeis gives a graded paper as one of the options if you’re not submitting SAT scores, but I don’t think they otherwise require it. I think Princeton requires a graded paper though. Brown recommends submitting one. Williams wants a writing sample but it doesn’t have to be a graded paper.

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