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  1. Well, I tried to call them this morning and they are closed today but will be open tomorrow (?) So, I do not know anything yet. I know I will have to submit a transcript, which I already have. The problem was I could not find a way to access the "academic record" portion of the app. There is a note somewhere that says the Academic Record cannot be filled out until the "School Profile" has been completed. After completion, I still could not find a way to do it. Hopefully I will know something tomorrow ~ I was just hoping someone may have worked through it to tell me what I did wrong (if anything).
  2. I'm having trouble with finding the "Academic Record" section? Any clue? It's after hours so I cannot call them ~ Also, if your student went to a regular high school and takes DE classes, do you forward transcripts? Nothing on there tells you to do so. It's puzzling. I completed the "School Profile" and read it yesterday, and today, to make sure everything was correct, and hit "submit" ~ and I'm in a panic wondering if I left something off (I guess I thought you could type in the Academic Record portion but there was not a link to that (?). Or is that what I mail in. I'm truly bewildered and thinking I should have waited to "submit" until I call them tomorrow! Many thanks ~ Debbie
  3. Again, this is the General Science Website I just got up this summer. Physical Science link posted at bottom and this is the 2nd year for that site. I have taught this class at a tutorial for a few years, took off a year, and have a new class this year. Since this site is new, I will still be loading things throughout the year. I try to stay a few modules ahead. Unfortunately, I cannot link you to the on-line quizzes for the flashcards and module, because of the way Engrade is set up for teachers/students. I also have reformatted most of the Study Guides to match the sectional reading in each module. I am trying to find a way to get those linked as well (I just print them for my class). These sites were started on our tutorial gradebook site (Engrade) to help support students of varying abilities while home during the week. We only meet for one hour a week. I would be thrilled if others found it helpful since a lot of time goes into creating, improving and maintaining it. Please feel free to pass the link along ~ :001_smile: http://wikis.engrade.com/nctgs Warmest Regards, Debbie PS: Physical Science Website - http://wikis.engrade.com/nctps
  4. Again, this is the General Science Website I just got up this summer. I have taught this class at a tutorial for a few years, took off a year, and have a new class this year. Since this site is new, I will still be loading things throughout the year. I try to stay a few modules ahead. Unfortunately, I cannot link you to the on-line quizzes for the flashcards and module, because of the way Engrade is set up for teachers/students. I also have reformatted most of the Study Guides to match the sectional reading in each module. I am trying to find a way to get those linked as well (I just print them for my class). These sites were started on our tutorial gradebook site (Engrade) to help support students of varying abilities while home during the week. We only meet for one hour a week. I would be thrilled if others found it helpful since a lot of time goes into creating, improving and maintaining it. Please feel free to pass the link along ~ :001_smile: http://wikis.engrade.com/nctgs Warmest Regards, Debbie
  5. Again, this is the General Science Website I just got up this summer. I have taught this class at a tutorial for a few years, took off a year, and have a new class this year. Since this site is new, I will still be loading things throughout the year. I try to stay a few modules ahead. Unfortunately, I cannot link you to the on-line quizzes for the flashcards and module, because of the way Engrade is set up for teachers/students. I also have reformatted most of the Study Guides to match the sectional reading in each module. I am trying to find a way to get those linked as well (I just print them for my class). These sites were started on our tutorial gradebook site (Engrade) to help support students of varying abilities while home during the week. We only meet for one hour a week. I would be thrilled if others found it helpful since a lot of time goes into creating, improving and maintaining it. Please feel free to pass the link along ~ :001_smile: http://wikis.engrade.com/nctgs Warmest Regards, Debbie
  6. Bump ~ My Apologia General and Physical Science support site for you. Just bumping this to remind folks that this is available. Again, it may not be for everybody, but if it's helpful for you and your family ~ please use it. Warmest Regards, Debbie
  7. http://www.covenant.edu/pdf/admissions/trad/homeschool/homeschool_transcript-sample.pdf
  8. Just FYI for those of you in the north GA and southern TN areas. Berry College is hosting for free: For Homeschoolers Only: An Insider’s Guide to the Private College Admission Process Berry College Mt. Berry, Georgia Wednesday, July 27, 2011 10:00am - 4:00pm .
  9. Thanks for your thorough answers! They were really helpful. DS prefers to attend a private school, but two of the three schools we are looking at (and we are visiting those two in two weeks) do not have anything on their website about NMF aid. One of them does. For the two that do not, I wonder if they just do not advertise it on their website, though they have a list of many of their scholarships. That will be one thing we will need to inquire about at the visit. I was just wondering (aloud) if we needed to broaden our search a bit more for some good back-ups that will offer generous aid. We have heard several local stories of students getting full rides (yes - full) to colleges that were not at the top of their lists, but they ended up attending that school based on $$. We have two instructors (college) that have offered to write him recommendations, so we will likely use one of them. Many thanks again.
  10. In the Southeast, ACT is king, but most take both tests here anyway. He took the SAT in May and his scores, I think, were in line with his PSAT score if I just look at percentiles.
  11. Yes, I know. This is MONTHS away! From what I can determine, DS will qualify for semi-finalist just based on his numbers for our state. I know an application packet comes in September with a deadline of mid October sometime. Here are my questions: 1. Semi-finalists are deteremined on a state by state level. Do the 15K finalists they choose from the 16K semi-finalists also based on state, or does everyone nationally compete against each other at that point with no state consideration. Or do we even know? 2. From reading the 2011 application general information (application is not on-line), your school counselor has to fill out forms. Did you act as the school counselor and write the recommendation required? 3. GPA ~ did you calculate that? DS has been in public school, college classes, AP, tutorial and home. Did you weight everything equallly. I think it may have stated to, but I really don't know not having seen the form. 4. I had a question about this post from last spring about it seeming more likely to get additional aid from a university if the school is listed on the NMS application. They did send a dated letter to add submit two schools when the initial spring letter came. Can the schools on the Finalist application be different than the ones we previously listed. 5. The bottom line is, DS really needs $$. From the smaller colleges he is looking at, few of them even have any provision for offering merit based on the NMSQT or ACT alone (though one does and they allow you to stack scholarhips). His ACT was very high (almost perfect score, which I know is not even that unusual anymore so I'm not sure that will even be helpful for $$. I know it's helpful for admissions, but he is not striving for a top tier college, because he frankly, just doesn't want to work THAT hard :001_smile: So question #5 is ~ is it more likely that a public university would offer him more $$ based on NMSQT (semi-finalist or finalist) or ACT? Should I be looking a little more at public universities since money is a huge consideration? I'm just mentally trying to prepare myself because I'm not fond of surprises and we will be in the thick of his final football season which will be challenging for us time-wise with additional college visits, football, applcations, college classes, etc. (I thought I reduced the load his senior year to not be as crazy as last year :001_huh:) I have read a lot on- line about the whole NMS process but only have questions about the application. The GPA is going to be the tough one for him to make Finalist. Frankly, I'm not anticipating him making finalist and know that we will be doing a lot of work and he will likely be in that bottom thousand of the semi-finalists that doesn't make it. Fine with me except for the all the paperwork. Thanks in advance ~
  12. I'm thinking Pizza Pasta Salad (loaded with bell peppers, pepperoni, mushrooms, etc) and the hotdog rolls. Thanks for solving my problem! Off to the store.
  13. I have high school senior boys coming tonight to overnight and then taking them to the airport in the morning at 4:00am to catch an international flight. I'm braindead today and just cannot think of what to have for them tonight/morning for food. Ideas besides pizza? Something easy. I thought I'll make a breakfast casserole for early morning, juice and milk. They will be here about 8:30pm tonight and I think they will have snacked at the send off party for them just prior to that, but I don't think they are eating a meal. And lets face it ~ it's teen boys that are always eating :) Ideas? Nothing hot. It's blazing here today. Patio eating kind of stuff (I plan on moving them out there until they want to catch some sleep).
  14. Thanks for the reminder. I could not stand it (being his first AP course) and bit the bullet and paid. I'm glad I did :)
  15. Our scores were on-line Monday including the writing score. Have not received it in the mail yet though. I guess it depends on what region you are in when the writing scores are ready.
  16. Several homeschool supplements for college admissions require a description of your homeschool philosophy. I never did this (and we are moving into the senior year and I still have not written one). It never occured to me to do this early on. I agree with Nan, do it early on for yourself if no other reason. If you do it early on, you have it to keep yourself on track and then you have it for admissions later if anyone requires it. Four year plan ~ I actually met with a fellow homeschooler for lunch recently to talk "school" and graduation since her DS is a year behind mine. I was rather astonished that she had not made a 4 year plan on paper so she could get a picture of what she was doing to meet her educational objectives for her son. Every spring/summer she is at a loss what she should be doing for the following year (and she is rather well educated herself. Maybe just overwhelmed?). So we sat at the restaurant, whipped out a sheet of paper and wrote a four year plan so she could stay focused on her high school objectives. So, for anyone coming into the high school years, I would highly recommend that if you have not already thought about it,to do this, so you can stay focused on your goals. It was interesting because she had in her head all the goals, but she crammed them into his first two years of high school, and the kid already had enough credits to graduate at the end of his sophomore year, though still needed his last two years of English and one more credit of math and science. Her DS was very overworked and unhappy. After she saw on paper what she had done, she could see why he was tired and unhappy and realized had she written it all down, she could have spread the classes out better and it would have been better for everyone involved. However, I think she may be the exception, and not the rule. I was just rather surprised.
  17. We have been using it this summer and I think it is a fabumous supplement! And it automatically maintains a gradebook of each comprehension quiz thoughout.
  18. deleted by poster. Decided what I had to say about this was not important :)
  19. I think the confusing thing for new high school parents about the 8th grade credit issue is that we are actually talking about two different things - credits for (high school) graduation and credits for (college) admissions. Those two things are not always the same thing. I'm only mentioning this for any new upcoming high school parents that may be reading this. It took me a while to figure all this out but in our state (if one cares about state requirements), 8th grade credits count toward high school graduation (likely the same in most states). However, some of our state's private universities (our more higher tier) do not accept 8th grade credits in meeting the university's admission high school course requirements. Our state universities accept them. So, I think a lot of it depends on where one may attend. And since one seldom knows where that is (and we were college bound), we made sure we met the higher tier requirements, but I have an academic kid. Mostly this concerned Math and foreign language. He had foreign language in 8th-9th. We added the 3rd year in 10th to cover that base, just in case he attended a college that was more particular. But we had planned that 3rd year of of foreign language anyway. But, we do count 8th grade credits toward high school graduation. Same with math. Although, counting the 8th grade credits will not really matter anyway, because he will have met all this graduation requirements without them. They will bascially just count as extra credits above what he needs to graduate. However, I will NOT include them on his transcript for college admissions. Yes, I have heard many speakers about the credit issue and I understand their view (and I don't disagree in theory).I'm not talking graduation credits but admission credits. But for those colleges that are more particular about it, I'm going to play by the book since DS, as it turns out, is applying for one of those schools that specifically states they count credits for the "last four years of high school only". But, I am kind of one of those "by the letter" kind of people and I knew those higher tier schools could possibly be in his future and didn't want any bumps down the road about it.
  20. My son has Down Syndrome and we had OT in the pre-school years, mostly through OT's that worked with the state's early intervention program (making you a state employee with great benefits). Some came to our house and some came to the two day a week program he attended. In my humble opinion, they had the best job ever! :D
  21. I contacted (some by email and some by phone) last year a few colleges that I thought DS might be interested in attending (one large private university, one large state university and one small private university) about what kind of records do admission officers need/prefer from homeschoolers (and transcript). Here is the short of it: 1. Transcript ~ usually they want a transcipt from your umbrella if your state requires one and from any school your child attended from 9th-12th (this was already stated by someone else - but they do not want to see 8th grade credits). This would include separate transcripts for our 9th grade school (public school), our local community college (Dual Enrollment classes), our umbrella (our state has that as one legal option if you do not register with the local school district) and from our AP classes organization (PA Homeschoolers). I was told by all three universities, that in our case (since we were all across the board and not straight homeschooled) that they would calculate GPA and all. I had already spents hours making a very nice homeschool transcript with everything on it and designated by where classes were taken. I plan on sending it anyway (in addition to all the stuff above) since it looks so nice and to be able to see everything at a glance :) 2. CD - two of the three admissions officers said that it's been a recent trend for homeschoolers to send a CD with the transcript on the CD, papers, scanned tests etc for most every class they took in homeschool (basically a digital portfolio). They basically said that it was total overkill and to please NOT send that to them (because they are not likely to look at it anyway unless you are applying for a special program that requires a portfolio - fine arts?). What they would like to see instead is a course list with books used and a short course description. Again, one officer said they have seen homeschoolers send in a small bound booklet with a course syllabus that was 2-3 pages long (or also on the CD they sometimes send) for each course and to PLEASE not send that. However, a solid one paragraph description of the course with materials/texts would be fabulous. I have been writing these at the beginning of each school year, which has about 2-3 course descriptions per page. I found it was a stretch for me to go back and do the prior year's classes after the fact. But that is probably just me. Again, every college will be different and I know some folks like to plan for every possible scenario and therefore will save most everything, just in case. I have only kept (in my own personal file as a reference) syllabi from outside courses, test, papers, projects (or pictures of projects) and any grade report from an outside class. Usually this is about 3-4 items per class I keep, if even that. It's unlikely DS will ever need those and we do not plan to submit any of that unless it is requested. But, I have it. There are some nice transcript forms on-line. I know some folks have purchased software because it probably saves them time, but a transcript is much easier than you think. If you search the forums, there are links to various free on-line formats. Some colleges even have added blank ones on thier websites for homeschoolers to have a format they prefer (and that varies). I just found one that made sense to me, saved it to my computer, modified it a tad, added all DS's info and saved. I update it at the end of each semester when I submit grades to our umbrella (record keeping organization). I stress over everything and that is one thing (the transcript) not to stress about. 2.
  22. I know of one homeschooler in town (I know the family who is part of our tutorial) who is going to Auburn for engineering as well. Not sure what dorm though.
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