There are a lot of community colleges and "directional" (to use CC-speak lol) state universities on the list, which is so cool. The students are definitely self-selected. I think schools with repeated recipients show an institutional knowledge of the program, which is kind of what I was looking for.

Evil frowning eyebrows of doom----must remember this!

Choose 'alumni' on the home page, and then click on the link for the 'CLS Alumni Database' about 1/3 of the way down the page. You can search by name, home institution, language, year, and field of study, but I couldn't get that to work on my ipad yesterday. I just scanned and made copious notes :D Never mind, it's working for me now.

Oh duh, that's right--he had one semester at the school and one at home, right? Then list them separately as 0.5 credits each.

Thank you. I will let dd20 know this. She's still having really bad cramps after trying different bc pills.

My older kids' transcripts only gave final year grades. Semester grades were averaged. I'll put classes in like this (for example) Intro to Number Theory <grade column> 0.5 cr Pre-Calculus. <grade column> 1.0 cr (Hush, I know I'm supposed to be working on the transcript every night this week ;))

Creative Writing as a class and ONE HECK of an extracurricular activity!

^^^^ this I told dd that she will be asked how she took advantage of all the opportunities that homeschooling provides.

Thanks again for all the comments and suggestions :) I really appreciate how helpful this community is. And now for an update on my searching! I've had many free hours this week as dd has been fighting a fever virus. When I haven't been fighting with Excel over the transcript form (;)), I did some digging online. I decided to look at which schools undergrads attend who receive the very competitive Critical Language Scholarships http://www.clscholarship.org. I looked at the Arabic, Azerbaijani, Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, Turkish, and Urdu recipients for the past three years. I figured that schools with a high number of recipients have a strong language program (right?) and/or faculty members who know how to navigate the process. A very large number of the schools are on the east coast, and many are within a few hours of us. Of course, they are also schools that are very difficult to gain acceptance and/or ones that do not give much merit aid. But it's a start. I have a nice spreadsheet listing the schools and their language offerings. I'm into the next layer down, the schools with maybe one or two students accepted every year and that are in our area (ish). I've been checking their websites, seeing if they offer unusual language choices. When dd is feeling better, I'll point her to the CLS website so she can see the wide variety of majors represented. I hope that will help her explore more options. She's so familiar with math, pure sciences, engineering, economics, English, and so on as majors (because of her siblings and friends and all our foreign-born grad student friends) that she may not be thinking about public policy or international relations or whatever. For anyone playing at home, here is a very partial list of schools who have sent multiple undergrads to the non-Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Russian programs in the past three years (very much an East coast bias on my part--other schools include UT Austin, Wisconsin, Michigan, Berkeley, Stanford, etc.): Georgetown (16) University of Virginia (16) United States Naval Academy (14) Columbia (13) George Washington (12) Brown (12) American (12) Princeton (10) George Mason (9) UNC, Chapel Hill (9) University of Maryland, College Park (8) Alabama (6) Harvard (6) William and Mary (6, all Arabic) Pitt (7) City University of New York (5) NYU (5) Mount Holyoke (4) James Madison (4) Franklin and Marshall (3) Temple (3) Vassar (3) Barnard (3) And then other schools for us to check: Smith (2) Bucknell (2) Johns Hopkins (2) University of Delaware (2) Washington and Lee (2) Rowan (2) Boston University (2) Yale (2) Tufts (2) Howard University (2) Wellesley (2) Wesleyan (2) Dartmouth (2) Williams (2) Northeastern (2) University of Richmond (2) Virginia Commonwealth University (2) Rutgers (2) Rhodes College (1) Amherst (1) St. Mary's College of Maryland (1) Dickinson (1) Drew (1) Holy Cross (1) Boston College (1) Gettysburg (1) Haverford (1) Gettysburg (1) Elon (1) Middlebury (1) Swarthmore (1) Bryn Mawr (1) Lehigh (1) College of Charlestown (1) Fordham (1) Vanderbilt (1)

Had a great workout :) Dd got up at 10, had Arabic class, then lunch, and is now in a study chat for her next English test. I hope to do some chem and math with her after she takes post-chat break. Dinner tonight will be split pea soup with homemade oatmeal rolls. Dd suffers through pea soup, so I'm making individual hot chocolate pudding cakes for dessert :D

I just did my first ever 1.5 hour workout! (Well, except for hiking...) 30 min w the trainer, 30 min elliptical, and 30 min bike. Yay me :)

:grouphug: Dd was feverish most of yesterday yet managed to take her Arabic class and get English done. But that's it. So ahead: --exercise w trainer plus cardio after --whatever school she can do with me --usual house things; Thursday-specific tasks --continue working on transcript document (I'm adapting one from the hs2coll archives, having to learn lots of Excel!) --start FAFSA (have to estimate and then file the corrected one once taxes are done) --some emails And whatever else comes up :)

Yesterday was a rest day. Today I have the trainer plus 30 min cardio (elliptical? bike?) while I'm there (dd takes an online class at that time)

I don't buy into the idea of a science rotation. Before high school, expose the kids to all branches of science (if possible) by letting them study what interests them. This is what we did (gosh, I hope I remember everything!): 5th: CPO Earth Science; fabulous year 6th: CPO Life Science; bits and pieces of Tabuck's Earth Science, some botany, basic chemistry, building structures with balsa wood (these went w Science Olympiad events---she won a few state medals) 7th: started with the free American Chemical Society middle school curriculum but discovered she already knew 75% of it, more Tarbuck's, botany from my grad school books, astronomy books and DVDs, basic environmental science, more building (again to go with Science Olympiad---v good medal year at state competition) 8th: stepped up the difficulty with an algebra-based physics course using Giancolli; more geology and astronomy and envi sci and building (I just let her find whatever was interesting to study starting from Science Olympiad suggestions--last year competing at the middle school division w great medals won)

Dd acted like that during the fall. One day I starting timing everything she did---I made notes on my phone when she started and finished an activity or reading or writing or whatever. Everything academic. I did that for an entire week (oh I was pissed at her!) I wrote down all her bathroom trips, her meals and snacks, "making a cup of tea", you name it. Did I mention I was pissed? This worked because I made her do everything at the kitchen table while I was in various rooms, in and out all day, if we weren't working together. I could see her screen if she was supposed to be doing English (she'd either have a Word document up or the class website with distinctive green borders---super obvious). Anyway, I presented the data to her on the Friday. We discussed what a credit actually entails. Yadda yadda yadda. I was so angry at all the time she wasted. I told her it was up to her to control her daily schedule and to limit the wasted time if she wanted any free time on the weekends. Strong language may have left my mouth. She's been much better ;)

Argh my format disappeared when I pasted! Will fix in the am!

Human Odyssey Volume 3 Reading List Notes: She did not read any of the historical fiction. The books marked ** are the ones that were particularly enjoyed. The first two marked books from the World War II section were difficult, at times, to read, but provoked very good discussions. (7th grade). There are many, many more possibilities, but these books were available at our library. You may find others :) Pre-World War 1 Historical fiction The Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky ( Tsarist Russia) Broken Song by Kathryn Lasky (sequel to above) Parade of Shadows by Gloria Whelan (British girl in Turkey) World War I Historical fiction Lord of the Nutcracker Men by Iaian Lawrence (Britain) Remember the Lusitania by Diana Preston (1915) Non-fiction The War to End All Wars by Russell Freedman In Flanders Field: The Story of the Poem by John McCrae by Linda Granfield (combination of nonfiction and picture book/illustrated poem) Great Depression Historical Fiction Young Fu of the Upper Yangtzee by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (Newberry; 1920s China) The Miner's Daughter by Gretchen Moran Laskos (West Virginia) Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (California) Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse (Newberry) Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (Newberry; Mississippi) Non-fiction Six Days in October by Karen Blumenthal (1929) **Years of Dust:The Story of the Dust Bowl by Albert Marrin World War II Historical Fiction Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr (autobiographical) Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (Denmark 1943) When My Name Was Keoko New ; ocKorea) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (YA; Germany) Non-fiction **Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport (Incredibly powerful when paired with following book;read corresponding chapters alternately if possible to see the stories of teens and children on both sides of the conflict; told partly in first-person accounts) **Hitler Youth: Growing Up In Hitler's Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti Remember Pearl Harbor: Japanese and American Survivors Tell their Stories by Thomas Allen (National Geographic) Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne W. Houston (CA internment camp; memoir) Dear Miss Breed by Joanne Oppenheim (CA internment camps; artifacts and letters between a librarian and her former child/teen patrons plus historical details; author interviewed the now-grown children; much more engaging that the previous book) **Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin (excellent narrative nonfiction; she read it all in one sitting because she was so fascinated by the details) Remember D-Day: The Plan, the Invasion, Survivor Stories by Ronald Drez (National Geographic) Post War, 1946-1980 Non-fiction 10,000 Days of Thunder by Phillip Caputo (Vietnam) **Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh (this book caused a month-long detour into the history of the space race!) Red Scarf Girl by Ji Li Jiang (autobiographical; Chinese Cultural Revolution) 1980s and Later Historical Fiction Forbidden City by William Bell (Tianamen) Broken Memory: A Novel of Rwanda by Elizabeth Combres (written for grades 6-9; 1994) Graphic Novel Persepolis (and sequel) by Marjane Stampi (Iran; 1979-1983) Non-fiction **When the Wall Came Down: The Berlin Wall and the Fall of Communism by Serge Schmemann (Berlin 1989; written by a NY Times correspondent who covered East Germany and was there when the wall began to fall; covers the area from the division of Germany after World War II until 1989ish; contains archival information from the NY Times during that time period) The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights edited by Minky Warden (adult; includes Arab Spring)

Posting in a smidge on a separate thread. I will also post on the general board :)

I do have a list (and I'm finally going to type it up now) but it is geared to an older middle school student. Dd was in seventh grade for HO 3, and her reading list reflected that. I hope to get it posted, in a separate thread so it's searchable, by tomorrow morning :) (Off to type...)

Happy to see your update :grouphug:

The Math 2 exam should be taken immediately after finishing pre-calculus. It does not cover any calculus at all. Common wisdom is to take the Math subject test after finishing the relevant class (algebra 2 for Math 1, precalculus for Math 2), even if you don't think the student will need it. It's much better to take it and not need it than it is to scramble fall of senior year to remember the math from year(s) ago!

I saw that first thing this morning! He is soooo strong. And the height of his jumps :eek:

Dd20's lower abdominal pain (the type that caused her to writhe on the floor some nights :() was due to a soy allergy. We had no freaking clue.

Awesome news all round :party: Well, except for the dispatching stress. That sucks. :grouphug:

It never hurts to ask :) I'm paying a bit less than $30 per session, but I signed a contract for twice a week for six months. I wanted to be fit and strong before our Alaska trip (hiking in Denali!) in August, so that six month time period worked for me. I will probably resume with once a week in October or so, after the dust settles from the start of the academic year.