Bumping up again. :-) Also wondering if anyone knows of a method to learn the parts of a cell for Miss Non-Science. :D

Thank you Jane, I appreciate the welcome! :-) I can see most people wouldn't mind helping my DD. Maybe I'm being too pessimistic! :D Thanks again, you're a great help!

I haven't looked through but there's a list of institutional merit scholarships here: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/211927-institutional-merit-based-scholarships-full-tuition.html And that board is altogether helpful for finding scholarships. I think you said your DD is interested in the sciences too? There's science (research-based, etc) competitions for them that she would enjoy and could also win a scholarship. Rushing out but I hope that's of some use to you. :-) Your DD sounds like an amazing kid!

In the TWTM it says DC should try to submit them to be evaluated by experts and if you can't afford to pay for it, they can practice their persuasive writing. My DD would love to do this in the future but how do you convince people? It's a lot of time to take out and they don't get much out of it so how do you go about persuading people to take a look at it? Has anyone tried this - what were your experiences? Thank you! Rionne :001_smile:

The ones we've been looking at for DD have required it but I agree that it is a pretty pointless section. Sorry if the "most" was misleading though, I was just under that impression. Checking the school's website or checking with them directly is always the best way to go though, I agree. :-)

Most colleges require the one with writing, I think. If you dc has a particular college in mind check their website. :-)

Kareni, We are looking for secular materials. Sorry, I should have made that a little more obvious. :D And that's a shame about the logic books! Me & DD really liked the look of them. Thank you for pointing that out Kareni! :)

I'm new - can I be forgiven? :D

Ah! Thanks a lot. :-)

Could someone tell me what MCT is please? :D I tried googling and was just getting MCAT vocabulary.

Thank you so much for your suggestions! :001_smile: I was having trouble with picking out which were secular books & which weren't with the living books for biology. I don't know the names of the curriculum so I had to google them all seperately. :-D Do you have any suggestions for grammar curriculum too? I'd like something modern, iykwim? The logic books both look brilliant & DD likes them too so we'll more than likely be getting them so thank you so much for recommending them! :-) Once again thank you to both of you!

Hello! This is my first post. I'm homeschooling my daughter, who's in 9th grade. We're starting the year late (Don't ask! :-D) but planning to work year-round so it shouldn't be much of a problem. I would really appreciate your help on picking curriculum to suit my daughter. Language Arts: I'm not really sure what to do here. My daughter loves writing so I'm not sure a writing curriculum is really necessary. She will be doing the research paper as mentioned in the WTM though or maybe multiple papers because she's actually looking at them as fun. :-D She has a good grasp on grammar too and we're going to keep looking over it every now & again to keep it fresh in her head but I don't think a grammar curriculum is really necessary either. Vocabulary she could definately do with and we'll be doing a lot of reading too. Is it okay to skip over a formal writing & grammar curric. though? Mathematics: Got it covered! :-) History: We have SWB's Ancient World and we're going to be getting through some of the books in the list. I'd like to get in some Ambleside Online type of books too but secular? Does anyone have any recommendations? Biology: We have a Biology textbook but I'm not too fussed on it & DD doesn't like Bio or Chem so I'd like to get one that would increase her interest. Having a 'living books' style would be good here. Again, any recommendations? Languages: We have Wheelocks for Latin and we'll be throwing in some french vocab at some point during the year when we're more settled as she already has basic french down. Rhetoric/Logic: I'm confident in her ability with Rhetoric but Logic... not so much. She doesn't have a logic brain and we bought a logical puzzles book and she hasn't managed to complete any one of the puzzles yet so I'd really like to spend time on Logic instead. She's also not been taught Classically before and in the FAQ section of the site it says to do Logic for two years first for an older child? Does anyone have any suggestions for a child her age? Other: Just to throw it in, she's reading a lot about Philosophy, Religion, Businesses, etc too. She loves these kinds of things so reading is something she does a lot. She's also attempting a few classics this year (Austen, Bronte Sisters, Shakespeare). All of these are for fun though. Can anyone help? :) :) :)