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  • Birthday 01/29/1974

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  1. We must have checked that school lunch box too. I wondered why I wasn't asked about any assets. We also had to enter all of our information. They didn't even ask about importing tax info.
  2. I utilized work study when I was in college, but have advised my own children to decline the option. In Florida it generally does not pay as well as outside jobs. Most work study here pays $12 an hour. I have two still in college, one makes $18-$19 an hour working one shift per week on Saturdays (usually a 12 hour, though she occasionally turns that into an 18 or 24 hour shift if it fits in her schedule) and the other makes $15 an hour as a lifeguard. Lifeguard positions here are very flexible in their scheduling allowing college students to update their availability each term and utilizing an online platform to allow continuous trading and pick-up/drop of shifts. He is usually scheduled for about 20 hours per week. Some weeks he gives up all of his shifts and some weeks works up to 40 hours. He appreciates the flexibility. Both of their jobs do allow students to study, as am EMT when not on a call and as a lifeguard during their off-time which is usually about 20 minutes each hour, though neither of my kids find the atmosphere condusive to study and generally read or chat with others during down times.
  3. Two of my family members earned the AS as radiology techs and then went on to a one year radiation therapy degree. They are both happy in their field and make about 80k per year. I've heard nuclear medicine and sonography are also good AS degrees in a similar field. I'm not sure what added benefit a BS degree would have?
  4. Are you under an umbrella rather than registered with the school district? If so, your umbrella should have advice. If you are registered with the school district Florida law states that you can test with your zoned high school. You should have a homeschool liaison that can contact the school on your behalf, if they are not allowing your son to register. Although it is possible you have missed the final registration date.
  5. He would get an A on his high school transcript, but the AS degrees are only using pre-req college classes to rank the students for admittance to their programs. So he would only get a 3.0 for that college class. For example, the AS degree in Respiratory Care has competitive admittance. In order to apply to the program students must first take A&P I, A&P II, College Algebra, College Comp, Amer Gov, and Humanities. They take the GPA of those six classes and rank the applicants. Then they take the GPA from all college classes taken and rank them again. Those two rankings are 80% of the decision process for admittance to the program. My son was going to CLEP three of those six classes and take the other three through DE, but a 3.0 on each CLEPed class would almost certainly knock him out of contention for the program.
  6. We have run across a possible downside, that might pertain to some students. My son was going to take three CLEP exams this past spring/summer. We have decided to wait and think about it more. The issue has come up regarding competitive AS degree programs at our local college. When applying for these programs they take the GPA of a few select pre-requisite classes and rank the incoming applicants based on that GPA. We called and asked what they do if some of those classes were completed using the CLEP exam. Passed CLEP exams are given a 3.0 GPA for each class. When they are only using six or seven classes, that ranks the student quite a bit lower than a student with all As.
  7. I think the title of her major is Health Sciences: Pre-Clinical, so UCF's version of Pre-Med. Her plan is to continue on to medical school. She has a three year graduation plan. Her advisors were good and her orientation overall sounds like it was much better than either of her sisters'. She declined the invitation to apply to the honors college.
  8. Interesting. My dd is attending UCF (leaves in three weeks) and her orientation advisor was excellent. They set up a degree plan and everyone was very knowledgeable. She called me while in the meeting to go over the plan because I sent her to orientation with a full plan in place (after really, really terrible experiences with her two older sisters at UF and UNF freshman orientations). Maybe it just depends on the major?
  9. It wasn't that recent, but my dd took Japanese I and Chinese I with Todd Godwin about 7 years ago. She liked Mr. Godwin. It was a very good experience for her, but the classes were just added at that time so the there were only a few students. Much of the class was devoted to individual speaking and coaching. She went on to take Chinese in college (Japanese wasn't offered) and felt well prepared after her CLRC class.
  10. It's difficult for anyone to get in these days. My dd got in as a homeschooler and I've known several other homeschoolers as well. It has not been my experience that it is any more difficult for homeschoolers than schooled kids at any of the Florida universities. For homeschoolers, test scores and dual enrollment credits are key as they will not give any weight to a GPA generated by a parent. They say they do not give more consideration to students that dual enroll with UF, but I'm not sure. My dd did some of her dual enrollment through them. If you are in Florida but not near the university they have online dual enrollment classes. If your daughter is prepared for dual enrollment, a couple of online classes through UF couldn't hurt. Good luck!
  11. I guess it isn't everywhere then. These are things I tell my kids to think about when they relocate. I worked 911 many years ago and we could pinpoint anyone on a cell phone anywhere in the county. It is very specific and gives exact latitude and longitude numbers as well as an exact point on the map. I had to use latitude and longitude when a worker called from a field on a farm. He wasn't from the area and couldn't give any information at all about his location. Since he didn't know any access points we had to send a fire truck straight through the fences and across the fields. 🙂 The only thing we weren't able to do then was locate what floor a person was on in a hotel or apartment building.
  12. I know here you can call 911 on a cell phone and it will pinpoint your location without you needing to talk at all. If you dial 911 and don't speak, officers are immediately sent to your location. You can also add your address and other important info to your cell phone so that it immediately pops up to the 911 operators when you dial - medical conditions of people in the house, pets in the home, emergency contact info, etc. I don't know, maybe that isn't available everywhere?
  13. 24.5 - all dual enrollment credits - no early high school credits 29.5 - two thirds dual enrollment - 5 early high school credits 29.5 - two thirds dual enrollment - no early high school credits 25 - will likely be about one third dual enrollment - no early high school credits
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