I am guessing that's what happened. The two of them, especially Johnnie, were far more subdued, and far nicer, than they were that first night. ETA, that first night, I think his favorite word was "disaster."

According to a local news station, Twitter erupted in support of Chen after the commentators were so mean. At some point, Weir was going on about it being the worst he's ever seen of Chen. It was unpleasant and uncalled for, IMO. It made me want to turn the channel.

Are we the only ones who aren't enjoying the figure skating announcing? The kids said they're just mean.

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Interesting. FWIW, if anyone has more info, I'd be interested to know if any selective colleges are evaluating just the reading subscore rather than the EBRW section score. All the websites I've looked at self-report section scores, no subscores, but this makes me wonder if something more could be going on behind the scenes. I haven't seen this discussed on CC, either.

Maybe look at planning an overnight to a larger metro area. My junior is in private school and the public schools here do in-school testing at some point, but there are still plenty of testing dates available at the large public high schools - any Saturday test date, the SAT is offered at numerous locations within 10-30 minutes - not every large high school on every date, but enough that finding a spot is no trouble whatsoever.

I think it's impossible to know what she'll score like on the ACT or SAT without some practice tests and even then, if a trial test doesn't go well, I would not rule out significant score increases with practice, both for timing and strategy considerations, depending on the student. And yes, I suggest getting over any ideas of avoiding prep - there is very little teenagers can do that can have this level of financial return on effort for those who are within striking distance of scholarship-level scores. Coleman (president of College Board) explicitly advertises a study that shows some huge score increase for Khan practice - it's possible. Good luck :) ETA, I don't think that sufficient prep needs to take gobs and gobs of time. A few hours per week for a couple of months may do the trick. But just like with regular schoolwork, I suggest getting involved, figuring out what any issues are. Make absolutely sure she goes over every question she gets wrong and understands why the right answer is the correct one, why the one she chose was wrong, so she can learn the patterns in the questions and answers. If the timing is too tight (and it often is, for both tests), the SAT offers slightly more time per question, and there may be strategies to help with that. E.g., there seems to be some disagreement among high scorers whether it's faster to read the questions first in the reading section or to read the passage first, or take different strategies depending on the type of passage, etc. If she is advanced in math, I'd be aiming for a very high score there, as the SAT math isn't that hard... but practice can make a huge difference as well as going over the hardest handful of problems to make sure she remembers how to do them because they often come back on future tests. And of course, all of this first assumes getting the easy ones correct, as they all count the same, i.e. don't give up any easy points for failing to be careful.

I don't know the answer to this, but I'd try the NPCs and see what they say, even if you are still a few years out. The SCU NPC includes merit. Our school counselor said the range he usually sees is 10-25k, with the high end being for the very top students (Naviance has >30 kids apply each yr from this high school, with >20 accepted, so a decent sample size) - it sounds like this high school's results may be a little different than the results of local public high schools. Also, FWIW, SCU posted the profile for class of 2021 only in the past week or two. https://www.scu.edu/admission/undergraduate/choosing-scu/class-profile/ (scroll down to the stats by school and see Engineering) Demonstrated interest is very important to SCU (first words out of the admissions officer's mouth at our visit) and my guess, from reading the early threads this year, is that they've got a bit of Tufts Syndrome going on. Maybe they're eyeing the rankings, maybe trying to make the jump from regional to national like Villanova did last year.

The Tamiflu fiasco and lessons learnt https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4375804/ On the fear, sometimes it's hard to know the extent to which the cdc is sort-of crying wolf. e.g. http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Activity%20Files/PublicHealth/MicrobialThreats/Nowak.pdf

IIRC, it is not allowed for pediatric use in Japan due to risk of psychiatric side effects. (For my kids with all their immune system weirdness, personally, I wouldn't do it, but that's me.)

SCU includes a merit estimate in the NPC (even when there is low need). I have no idea how accurate that is, but the amount it spit out jives with what the school counselor told us (merit very common for students from this Jesuit high school)

A while back, I was compiling a loose list of schools that might consider NHRP for merit scholarships - not necessarily for anything automatic. You'd need to check the websites for details as I didn't record why I included them, but in case you're interested: Colo State U Ft Collins U Kentucky U Chicago U Arizona Northeastern RIT Calif State U Long Beach Arizona State U Tulsa U Nebraska-Lincoln U Alabama Huntsville UVM U Central Florida U New Mexico U Alabama Birmingham Fordham U South Carolina BU U Richmond

FWIW, I think he has this exactly backwards. In the long run, the professor job is likely less lucrative than the middle-aged person who has put those quantitative skills to good use in the business world. It is the short run that might be challenging for the 18 y.o. kid with the BA/BS in math, because businesses in general may be skeptical of the young age. Quantitative skills are in demand and that's where his myopia is disappointing for someone holding himself out as knowledgable about education/career paths.

FWIW, just for reference, note that there is a completely different organization called National Hispanic Scholarship fund, or something similar, that involves need-based scholarships. NHRP is separate. There are some potential scholarships - Kentucky comes to mind - check the discussions at CC. For a few more prestigious colleges, NHRP may put the student in the running for competitive scholarships, though it's often unclear the extent to which there will be a need-based component or URM component. Perhaps colleges looking to recruit URMs is where things get murky for a descendant of Spain - I don't know. My junior also got NHRP, though we were waiting for it :). I doubt it'll end up being relevant for scholarships for the schools on her list, but who knows what the future will bring. As far as I know (which is never very far lol), NHRP can be listed as a national award on apps.

FWIW, I'd also use admitted and accepted interchangeably. The term I'd use for students who had already committed, paid their deposit, would be enrolled.

Excellent - thanks - I'll look for the book. Calc 1 is on the menu for this summer though we haven't decided on CC vs some form of self-study or tutoring. Fortunately, dd is motivated by watching her friends concurrently enrolled in both Phys C and calc flounder for the first few months.

Thanks - maybe I'll get a book and see. Physics C will be both Mech and E&M. We are saving the August date for one more SAT1. Then the last possible SAT2 for EA would be Oct, technically, though I'm guessing she'll have about twenty five thousand other more important things to do around that time. I don't think it's crucial for her to have it; it just would have been a nice addition.

My junior is planning Math 2 (following precalc) and Latin (following Latin III) for June and US History for May, six days before the APUSH exam. I am annoyed about the physics subject test/AP mismatch. When the topic of the subject test schedule comes up, dd keeps asking me about the physics one (which is amazing to me), but she will only have had AP Physics 1 and so would need to self-teach - unlikely to happen. She's taking AP Physics C next year, but I doubt the missing topics would be covered in time for the last SAT date for EA apps, if they're even in the course. (Um what did I just say? Something about college apps being completed a mere nine months from now? Phew, at least I'm not a homeschool parent/counselor. But where did the time go?)

That could be part of it. If that's their rationale, then I'd say their education and career advice is limiting and backward-looking; so last century.

I just want to go back to this quote for a moment. For people who are up to their ears in math, it's odd that they'd be so wrong about career options with a math degree that don't involve academia, and that's been bothering me. But it just occurred to me that perhaps, even with their child's brilliance, completing an undergrad math degree by age 18 might have been a bridge too far, just not possible? And accordingly, disproving their method?

There are multiple ways of doing things. Not early doesn't have to mean late. Not late doesn't have to mean early. The usual time for things is a middle ground and is common for a reason.

Why use flour at all - why not just use cornstarch? Easy peasy. (ETA, the method is different from using flour but typically the directions are right there on the cornstarch container)

While gas heats up faster, electric has a reputation for more even heat, superior for oven cooking. And gas is better for the stovetop. Thus, fancy dual-fuel ranges are gas on top, electric in the oven, and not the other way around. So enjoy your electric oven :)

Two thoughts: first, do you maximize the space you are using in the oven at any one time? I'm not sure how I lived before we had these pans https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KIF5LLK/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Second, and this may be less helpful, but the configuration I find ideal is a gas stovetop and electric oven. We have double wall ovens and yep, I use them all the time, but that doesn't sound like what you're looking for, and if I had to guess, probably outside the price range.

In math and English, such that the ordinary kid completes true high-school-level during middle school? Ordinary kid ends up completing precalc in 8th grade? Brit lit in, say, 7th grade? A gifted kid, sure, maybe. Ordinary? No. ETA, 8FillTheHeart makes a good point about the sciences - I forgot about those. I see what my dd is doing in physics (AP Physics 1, which I understand to basically be honors physics) and there is no. way. her math-gifted younger brother could have been doing that in middle school; even now in 9th I imagine it would really stretch him to his limits (not the math, but the science concepts), and as for his twin brother, well, just no, not yet - two more years will make a world of difference in what they can get out of that course when they see it, probably in 11th, certainly no earlier than 10th. Even toward the upper end of the continuum of ability, in the gifted range, as acceleration increases, capacity to handle depth is going to decrease. I imagine a downward sloping curve, with depth on one axis and acceleration on the other...