Specific colleges have the info you are looking for on the individual college websites.

LOL, no self-respecting Buffalo bar/restaurant would use flour. The wings at the Anchor Bar (where they were invented) are GF.

Um, they should *always* be GF, under any normal circumstances. Where is the gluten? (ETA, if the restaurant fryer isn't dedicated to wings, then other gluten-containing foods would contaminate.... But real Buffalo wings do not involve flour.) I've been making wings at home since I was a kid (grew up in Western New York). Here is what I do: Preheat oven to 400. Line pan with foil. Spray foil with a little cooking spray. Cut wings. Place wings on pan. Bake for about 1 hour. Place cooked wings in large bowl, preferably shallow if you have one. Pour on sauce. These days, I buy Frank's Hot Wings sauce. It does not have any ingredient that involves gluten, as far as I can see. In the old days, when I was a kid, my dad would melt butter and add Frank's Hot Sauce, to make the sauce. But that was before there was Frank's Hot Wing sauce (which I buy at my local King Soopers/Kroger here in CO).

Without looking at the links, just off the top of my head, I don't think this matters. The source of legal rights isn't executive guidance. Executive orders do not change the rights. The title of this thread is not accurate. Whether schools still need guidance is a separate question. ADHD is far from the only DSM diagnosis leading to IEPs/504s. I'm not sure why there was guidance specifically for ADHD to begin with, as opposed to handling special needs generally.

Yes. With sandals too. It's in the 80s here.

"Common Data Set 2016-2017" has data for freshmen entering fall of 16. Apparently the CDS is named for the school year during which it was published rather than the admissions season the prior year.

Thanks, 8. I meant the 16/17 data that is in the 17/18 CDS, if that makes any sense (as I understand it, the 16/17 CDS reports data from 15/16). I am guessing some time this fall but I don't understand whether that is usually early fall, late fall, winter.

I have a dumb question for you all. Are SAT scores viewed as two separate data points? I've been noticing that many schools provide middle 50 data for math and for EBRW but not necessarily data for total SAT score (though some do, and for some, total is all that is provided). I'm imagining a situation where it's not necessarily straightforward to see where a student's scores fall. ETA, does anyone know when can we expect the 2017-2018 Common Data Sets to be reported? I suspect they might not be helpful for score data due to issues with Old SAT and New SAT, but I'm curious to see how CDS will handle that.

I'm only thinking out loud. I suggest a little trial, keep up the ibuprofen around the clock for a couple of days with the goal of calming things down. Meanwhile, continue to observe. (Maybe nothing will change and then we won't have to open the can of worms of neuro-inflammation. But I have a hammer and everything I see is a nail :o)

If the ibuprofen ends up helping, where I would be going here is not so much thinking about the pain aspect, but the inflammation (i.e. immune system activity).

I can describe what I did recently (which is not a lot) but I imagine that my ds14 is in a different place now with his medical background than other kids, so whatever I say is likely to be inapplicable to your situation or someone else's - perhaps for others, all manner of supports (tools, medical, whatever) would need to be in place first. I don't think my kiddo has EF issues, or at least not anymore. He is a big procrastinator, always has been. He reached a point last week, on his first day back after his sinus surgery, of utter exhaustion. He had a very long day with a club meeting after school, etc. I think what happened is that he hadn't slept the night before (from a stuffy nose) and not much in the preceding days and then finally around 10 pm, he got to looking at his homework and realized that he just couldn't do it. He curled up on his bed in tears. I felt bad but he had been home for 4-5 hours and hadn't done any of it (instead: videos, computer games). I have been talking about the six P's, proper prior planning prevents poor performance, and left a post-it note on his computer with those words. We have gone over and over that he needs to get to bed at a decent time (say 10 or 11) in order to have a better morning. And then we consider how much time before that it will take to get the homework done and so what time he should start at, assuming a little break after school. And I have been repeating the term "personal responsibility." He hit rock bottom with exhaustion and learned the hard way. I hope. We shall see. But, he has had the importance of high school grades drilled into him and I have not yet gotten his Canvas login info, so I have not been checking on his grades except for one time where I had him show me. In other words, I've been trying to let him be responsible for himself. That is really hard. I'm not yet at the point where I'm ready to have him get detention for being late (which is what would happen if he were to fail to get into the car in time for the bus with his siblings), so I haven't figured that part out. But I think he's slowly learning that getting his homework done a little earlier than the wee hours has its benefits in the form of sleep.

If it helps, remember it this way: tylenol is anti-pain but is not anti-inflammatory. And please update how the ibuprofen goes. (BTW, I did give ds tylenol after his sinus surgery, but he ended up not having any beyond that first day. And I think he only took the ibuprofen once... it was kind of amazing. We go for a post-op appt today, hoping the cultures yielded something interesting.)

My two cents: if it's 9th, then credit, if it's 8th, then no credit. It sounds like you have the flexibility to decide a bit later that her 8th grade year was really 9th.

OhE, in addition to whatever else, I would try ibuprofen, a hefty dose 3x per day for a couple of days, to see if it helps. Or, maybe there's some other anti-inflammatory you prefer, though ibuprofen would be my go-to for calming down flaring behavior due to an immune system provocation. We have never found anything else quite as powerful, even though I have a cabinet full of alternatives. On the urinary issue, magnesium and/or d-mannose (even though there is no infection; I can't say why it helped us in the past). I vaguely recall last time you were looking at antihistamines - did you ever end up finding one that helped, or no? ETA, also, too late now, but I would put a paste of baking soda mixed with a little water on the site of the sting ASAP after it occurs

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Also, for any lurkers, not only might middle school talent search testing be ignored, but some schools are no longer accepting the Old SAT.

FWIW, there are no longer any SAT dates in Jan/Feb. I think this will depend on the student, just like a curriculum choice. My kiddo was going to take an in-person class but it was cancelled. Ultimately, I think the tutor was probably the most efficient way to go for her, though she could have used a bit more practice on the strategies the tutor taught her. They only met for a couple of hours for a few weeks in a row right before the official test. She had a little bit of homework after each session and one full practice test, really not anywhere close to the tons of practice I see other kids doing, but for her, the most important need is speed and a few strategies specific to this test. She also did one full test prior to starting with the tutor to look for weak areas. We will wait to see scores and then decide whether to do a few more tutoring sessions before the next test. She is unlikely to aim for Ivy-level, though regardless, higher scores are always helpful, and I'll be happy as long as her score reflects her ability as I believe it to be. To start with, some months prior to the actual test, I would choose one of the practice tests on Kahn (I believe tests #5-8 were real prior administrations, whereas tests #1-4 were not) though if you can get your hands on a paper copy of those actual administrations in a book from CB, I think that's more realistic than taking the test on the computer (maybe it can be printed out someplace). Then see how she does. Maybe she won't need much prep other than a little bit of practice. The tutor (we used princeton review) was of the opinion that any practice/class/tutoring should back up right to the test date because kids forget/get out of practice if there's too much time lag. I think that's because the strategies taught by the tutor need to be remembered, and perhaps that's not relevant for the student who naturally scores very high and won't need time-saving strategies.

A student can take the test as many times as she wants. It is not unusual for a student to take it 2-3 times. More than three times seems to be frowned upon, but I'm not sure whether it's an actual detriment in admissions. There are a few selective schools that request all SAT (or ACT) scores to be sent. Many of those same schools will superscore, i.e. take the highest score from math and the highest EBRW from the group of SAT scores the student has submitted. Other schools may allow Score Choice, where a student can choose which set of SAT scores to send. Some both superscore and allow score choice. IMO it is best to take it well-prepped, hoping to be done with just one. Then take it again if the student thinks she can do better a second time. A decent amount of prep should address any issues with being far ahead in math. The SAT tests up through Algebra 2, IIRC, with some trig. Our test plan: my junior took SAT in August, for the first time, following a few test strategy sessions with a tutor. We don't have the scores yet, but she will take it again in October, just a few days before the PSAT. (Two birds/one stone - SAT prep and PSAT prep are the same although the PSAT sections are shorter length.) Then if she's still not satisfied, she has nearly a year to take it again, though she'd really prefer to be done as she has a few APs and SAT2 subject tests planned for May/June. National Merit Scholarships are based on the PSAT in 11th grade only. Also note that the SAT changed in March 2016. I would suggest not using old prep materials. ETA, also while the essay is optional, a few highly-selective schools and other random schools still require it, though fewer than in the past. I would suggest doing the essay portion just in case any of those schools end up on the final application list.

What I do: for the shoes, powder for athlete's foot. Don't breathe it, just sprinkle in in shoes at bedtime. For the feet, take a shallow plastic container about the size of the foot. Place foot in container. Poor white vinegar on foot and let sit for a few minutes, wiggling toes in it (unless there are open wounds/cracks, this should not hurt/burn). Rinse off. Do other foot.

And alternatively, or perhaps simultaneously, he may "find his people" for the first time.

Fascinating stuff! The ped could order the bone age x-ray themselves if they feel like it. A ped endocrinologist would be the usual prescriber for growth hormone.

Well, someone might be happy with using Teaching Textbooks for various reasons. But, it is definitely not known for depth.

You must be thinking of AoPS. The reputation of Teaching Textbooks is not deep and not great for the development of the mathematical mind. These programs are opposites.

The next SAT is Oct 7, with results returned two weeks after. That should be in time for any Nov 1 deadlines. The cheaper signup is through Sept 8. The results from the August test should be available by Sept 18. We were told to check the College Board account because the results may be available before the email from College Board is sent. If it were me, I'd go ahead and sign up for the Oct date, hoping to improve on the August scores. Alternatively, if ACT is really her best shot, I would consider traveling for it. Compare possible scholarship to travel costs for a weekend.

What is the reason you would want to sign her up for the class? Bear in mind that the online class includes additional work, a weekly problem set with a long-response problem all submitted online, as well as Alcumus. The weekly long-response question must be done prior to the due date or the chance to have it graded is lost. The assigned work in the book is best completed prior to the class at which that topic will be discussed; the book portion is not graded. IIRC, Prealgebra is broken up into two online courses. Perhaps have her start the book and see whether the time it takes her to complete sections would correspond to the pace of the online class. Then, if she is interested and her pace is sufficient, sign her up for the online class for the second half of the book. Or, wait until she is a few chapters in before starting an online portion. Whether she needs help from you when working through the lesson problems may depend on the section and need not be super time consuming for you. I'm not sure that doing the online course will really make a big difference in how much of your time is required, at this age anyway. (It might even be the opposite, where she wants you near when she is completing an online problem set and thus require more of your time, though the real key for the online component going smoothly IMO is that the book work is completed prior to the online problem set.)