New to me too. I found this http://www.stampsfoundation.org/about/ and this was in there somewhere on the other link shared http://publicuniversityhonors.com/2017/06/10/stamps-scholarships-are-only-for-certain-colleges-and-they-are-not-need-based/ in terms of honor colleges/programs overall, my dd ended up not going that route at her college. She was eligible for the "llc" (learning living community) dorm in other ways (engineering). But due to space, she ended up on the honors floors instead of engineering floor one year. She still went to the field trips/events for both. She ended up being in honor societies and all of that. She doesn't feel she's getting less of education by not having "honors section", but she's at a smaller private school. She hasn't been shut out of registration (small school. her classes in engineering seem available), etc. And she ended up in professional organizations and honor societies within that structure. maybe she'll regret it if she wants phd in her field or something. I know that's not the experience common on here. Just sharing our lives. Not making general advice.

Looks like the Biology dvd is still available for purchase. http://www.apologia.com/biology/416-biology-video-instruction-dvd.html and I don't know anything about it or the "recorded" classes for rental.The rentals seem to be different part of website with the online academy. I don't remember them being around when my oldest did apologia biology, so I've never had them. We read the text. If needed more help found other things like blogs and youtube stuff. so I have no help on the dvd. Just wanted to find the link to the product.

I just checked my dd's loan info. Interest rate is based on when loan is disbursed and will remain fixed over the lifetime of the loan. My dd's first year loans are one rate. then second year is another.. last year has it's rate.. and coming year is the new rate. She hasn't dropped below full time credits or anything like that.

I bought kits from Home Science Tools that were made in mind for the publisher of the textbook . I used apologia textbook with physics so I got this kit if you want to browse commonly used equipment https://www.homesciencetools.com/physics-science-kit got my microscope from them as well (for biology). the 4100model I think? it was fine. probably could have found other companies with similar. And dissection tools and specimens from there as well, ( 3 did worm, perch, crawfish) chemistry: back in the day we used 2nd edition apologia and got the kit from same supplier. you can browse that selection or check other publisher kits on that site to see various supplies. I'm not going to copy and paste. I'm lazy. We typically did not need an area bigger or more open than the kitchen, or bathroom. I think maybe some physics labs needed space to twirl stuff so we did that outside. But chemical stuff was household grade materials and our open kitchen was fine. It wasn't small apartment or anything.

For domestic students, dd's college does not offer such a thing. For students on F1 visa, if proof of coverage is not provided by the beginning of the school year, the uni provides and bills it. mileage will vary I guess :)

Since this is on college forum, I'll keep it to college level You might like this article with some basic guidelines http://college.usatoday.com/2017/03/07/how-to-tell-sketchy-honor-societies-from-legitimate-ones/ And then read up on ACHS (Association of College Honor Societies) (this has an easy to follow list) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_College_Honor_Societies or the official site https://www.achsnatl.org/ Remember also, that not all legit groups apply to join that network though. So you may still have to do case by case look up. If you meant high school level.. uhh..

I learned about this tutorial the other day and shared it somewhere else. Homeschool High School for College Credit has a free 30 minute tutorial for you. https://hs4cc-academy.thinkific.com/courses/Build You get to watch step by step how to use word processing to use headers, and build tables and make the transcript look nice. Designed in mind if you aren't familiar with using those tools in Word or Open Office. You'll also be directed to use http://www.back2college.com/gpa.htm for an online tool to calculate GPA It is a basic transcript with the essentials.

Here's link to policies on it for Memphis (Shelby County Tn) schools. (4 page FAQ on it) http://www.scsk12.org/memo/files/files/GradPoint_FAQs.pdf

My middle dd used Spanish 2 from Monarch. our goal was to have a regular high school level class. Not trying to place out or get credit (edit for clarity: college levels), or anything like that. In ideal world, I would have outsourced to real class. But ideal wasn't there. I needed something that could do the grading, etc. We liked it. I found it easy to use for grading, etc. She stayed engaged with the reading and videos. I could have made it harder by assigning optional projects. I didn't do that. For year 1 of Spanish she had used a program on discover education streaming (educacion espanol) which was a video program made in the 90s. That was good. I wasn't sure if it was 2 high school years, or just one. I decided it was one year. We also enjoyed watching Destinos and finished Destinos while doing Monarch Spanish 2. dislikes: I think I remember lacking some confidence in some of the sentence writing essays. I know there were teacher helps for it. I know on some other thread out there, I probably mentioned issues with server not being reached or dropping out. But that turns out it was my end of things (with our wifi server box) and not at all Monarch's issue. likes: already said, it was easy to set up and follow along. my kid was fine with it. There were options to have it all read out loud. We liked that it was not immersion style. a few fun games. It helped us reach our goal which were exposed to the language and not being afraid to try. We had no need to test out for college. Needed something for second year course and this was good enough.

With the first link you shared (dual credit at home), the idea is that the student gets high school credit for completing a high school course. Then, does some supplemental study to prepare for the CLEP (and a few DSST) exam. After several CLEP exams are passed, the student then is told how to enroll at Charter Oak State College (in state of Connecticut) toward getting a bachelors in general studies. They are also told how to take a few online classes there to complete the degree. But the high school credits come from completion of high school course. Not from completion of exams. And it's somewhat dependent on the various homeschool laws in states in the US on who can and can't award completion of high school diploma requirements. If I understand the online handbook of NARHS (North Atlantic Regional High School) correctly, they will do a college credit conversion to award high school credit in several ways (not just taking class at the local college while in high school). They call it "Proficiency Credits" in their handbook. That organization is accredited high school in the US. They will use a passed CLEP exam as one way to have evidence to award high school course. Also in their handbook they discuss a law in their state (Maine) that says a college freshman student who has completed one year of college credits may be awarded a high school diploma. (There are some restrictions and other requirements with that. And there are some colleges that don't require high school completion to start courses, so it works in those places.) So I can see how someone could use lesson plans from the first link the OP shared to do that. You get enough CLEP passed, get admitted at a place like Charter Oak because of enough CLEP credit. The college accepts the CLEP for credit toward their degrees. Then the NARHS high school accepts that to award diploma. But agreeing with the experiences of 8fill, in that my children didn't pass CLEP exam until after they finished a high school course. So in that sense it didn't matter. We complete the high school course and it's on the transcript. Where I live, if the CLEP is passed, we can then list the high school course as "honors" on homeschool transcript. Then it's up to college if the exam awards credit. I have no idea how it works in other places.

Could be difference in the UK vs USA. ???This article (from a UK site) might explain it better than I could try. http://www.autism.org.uk/about/diagnosis/criteria-changes.aspx

regarding Home Life Academy: it is Christian, but you are not required to have any religion courses, nor be any specific religion to use them. They will have Bible verses on emails and such. They are not accredited by their choice to not seek it. so if accreditation is needed, that's important to know. Here's a link to their International info http://www.homelifeacademy.com/enroll-now/international/ txnative is right. Each family gets to pick what to use. They do ask that you record it in the online record keeping. attendance is 180 days a year and submitted online twice a year. Grades are submitted twice a year as well. Options are made easy for school year round, traditional calendars, block scheduling and other combos. I just graduated my second child with them. (I'm in usa.) here's link to the fees page. New enrollment and international fees will be added. I don't know your budget. http://www.homelifeacademy.com/enroll-nowregistration-fees-20172018/

Florida: "cpalms" which says it is the State of Florida’s official source for standards information and course descriptions designates 1A as one credit and 1B as one credit each. here are those links http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewCourse/Preview/13014 http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewCourse/Preview/13015 since the OP is in Florida and the person who evaluates her program looks to how public school set it up, there's an official source to consider. It would not be weird on a Florida transcript to award 2 credits for that.

I've done mfw high school with 2 of mine. one advanced learner and one slow to average learner. both did them in order. In my opinion it would depend on factors other than "history cycle". mfw's us1 (11th grade american history/literature) is not going to have the same kind of writing instruction that is part of the 9th and 10th grade years. You'd be given assignments in the American Lit Supplement but not necessarily instruction on how to write an essay and all of that. If you have an advanced writing skill student it may not be a big problem. Also, depending on how much world history from reformation to modern is important to you, you may want to have a summer reading time with something like history of world encyclopedias in the whl program. or similar thing. Also, mfw does American history credit over 2 years. one semester is earned in US 1 and the other semester is earned in US 2. Gov't semester is placed in US1. and econ in US2. That kind of stuff may come into your plans and needs to be considered. I don't want to say it couldn't be done because with right work lots of things work out fine. seems like a non answer. sorry about that. It's more food for thought feedback rather than a direct yes/no

hmm.. I think the planners at schoolhouse teachers.com have much of that. (and the store at TOS) http://www.theoldschoolhouse.com/product-category/tos-products/planners-modules/ I have those planners included with my subscription to schoolhouseteachers.com Even though there are sections with specific dates for current academic year, I have found plenty of forms without dates. So I can use those without buying new one each year. But yeah, there are all kinds of schedules in those planners and they are pdf files that you edit as you go, or as is the case with me, at end of day I record what we did get done . For auto Transcripts: you might consider something like applecore. My cover school uses it (and I think they designed it), so I don't buy it separately or use the included one on schoolhouseteacher subscription. here https://www.applecoresystem.com/ Oh, looks like the individual version of applecore (version the cover school edition) has places for daily schedule/records as well. I don't know if it fits everything you are looking for. But seems to have much of it. The transcript is functional, not "pretty". But I've graduated two children and the applecore transcript was just fine for colleges. I'm sure there's samples somewhere. oh here http://schoolhouseteachers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Transcript-Apple-Core-Sample.pdf and one more link. some freebies to sample for weekly schedule. But you asked for daily. oops. https://schoolhouseteachers.com/member-resources/custom-schedule-builder/ and on the planners: oops again. Those aren't "software" but just pdf files. maybe those don't fit what you're looking for either.

I'm not the person you were asking. But wanted to share my experiences. Everyone is different. What works for me does not work for everyone. I have the point of view of being 3 and 6 years down the road after using AHL (with oldest and then middle). my youngest has enough disabilities that mfw high school is out of her reach even with supports. Hopefully seeing Storygirl's experience will let you know if too many changes would mean that something else would have worked better. I'm a person who used AHL twice with two entirely different learners and it was fine for us. Sharing my experience only to see exactly what Storygirl is saying that the reasons it's poor fit for one can mean good fit for others. Doesn't mean mfw will be right for you. Doesn't mean I'm arguing with storygirl. (oh, for context, my oldest is in third year of college in STEM majors and got scholarships and is on all kinds of honors things, professional clubs, social fun, internship, dean's list every term, and all of that. middle gal just finished grade 12 and is on path to defer any college decisions for several years while working. both used mfw for a long long long, oh my goodness, long time and did all 4 years of their high school program with minimum additions and what I think were minor tweaks). New Answers Book: we lean young earth. We don't think age of earth is do or die topic. and we also did not like this resource that much. We glanced at the chapters. Really did not like the format or set up of the book. some chapters had a tone that I didn't like. With oldest, she didn't care. With middle she found some stuff "oh, interesting" (which translates into I'm bored out of my mind can I brush the cat now?). But in the end, I would skim the chapter and talk about the material over a meal or snack. So, yeah, like storygirl, we tweaked and didn't really click with this book. oh, timeline: (again, this shows what storygirl is saying that what's not good for one could be good for others). My oldest and middle gleaned information from the timeline pieces themselves. This was when mfw was using the History in the Woods timeline figures. So that helped to add tidbits of fun things. We had done small timelines prior to high school, so a more detailed one was good. My oldest despised the idea of making the thing and slopped it together and didn't color it either. I was just glad she got the things in the right order and in the right part of the world. Middle gal loved every minute of it in both AHL and WHL. She made these beautiful keepsake books (and I actually taught youngest from them.) Middle gal benefited from this activity. Oldest rolled her eyes the whole way. By the way, I don't know if the current mfw timeline AHL pieces have the caption tidbits on them or not. But that was a nice little thing to add for my kids. (even if it was captions). Other people may think that's just weird that we liked those. that's ok. notgrass: yep. light on history. But it's ancients so we didn't care. Did I admit that on wtm? and both of my kids like the encyclopedia stuff. We liked having ancient and even world history "light" overall. We weren't going for clep in western civ or anything. Just enough to get regular high school social studies in grade 9 and 10. My youngest only used Notgrass for her "very regular high school world history" credit. That was about all she could do with her disabilities. (read, answer the review question, quiz. added map work and a little timeline project - not as detailed as the ahl one) But yes, notgrass history credit on its own is Light. and thankfully so in our case. But yeah, if in depth ancient cycle in high school is important, I've heard of people adding spieglevogel (western civ.. sorry for name spelling) and they like that. even pass clep. LIt: middle gal needed audio supports due to her disabilities. the stuff in ahl and whl was relatively easy to find. We gave up on Iliad. oh well. life goes on. (gosh, you know.. once you graduate two children from homeschooling, the whole perspective just changes. ) writing: over time my adhd stem oldest learned to write and can fake it with the best of them at college in spite of having me as teacher and in spite of frustrations with the materials in mfw. So, overall, looking back on two different children of mine, I think the mfw fan girl in me was most appreciative of the structure and planning, and the way my children were able to do more on their own with me taking a side role in it. I am not skilled at planning for long term 36 week things. ugh. So, any of these programs where the planning is done would have been good fit for that need. I liked that with mfw years, I felt like my kids grew just enough in skill each year that it all worked out without burn out. Oldest is a triple stem major in college and carries 18 credit hours a semester. She didn't do that much in high school but still stepped up. She attends a Catholic college where they are required to take 2 "religious studies" courses as part of their Gen Ed requirements. She found the first one easy to do from all of the reading she did in ahl. (hasn't done the second one that's this summer). no such thing as good for everyone. I know I didn't like all selections in all years of mfw (even though we used all 4 years of high school). We used what was assigned. sometimes in ways that weren't exactly what was "suggested". I know I liked that we got school done. checked off and move on. and had time for interests. not sure any of that helps. the reasons it worked ok for me may be the exact reason it will not work for you and hopefully with enough info and stories out there, you'll know if it's good fit or good time to say nope.. something else please.

bluebonnet hope that did what you wanted :)

nm..... can't get link to do what I want.. (hilltop mom, please check pm for link that might be helpful)

I'm in a state where most homeschoolers use "cover schools" that are state approved but not necessarily seeking to be accredited. Based on laws where we are, I'm not all that worried about the accredited issue even for our non college bound children because the school is a private school. The cover school I picked still requires the same categories of courses (science, math, etc) and the same number of those courses to graduates. The part that differs is around titles of courses. So a "life choices" graduate (their term of those not going into college right after high school) can do any science not have to be bio, chem, physics, or can be "light" versions of some of those, or even courses like agri science, earth sciences, meterology, and more. Math becomes any four math courses (accounting, business math, consumer math, for examples that aren't always the alg 1, 2 geometry, although one can do those alg 1 and geometry as well) You might want to take a look at some of the "field of study" they list with the career clusters. It might give you ideas of sequence of courses for career prep, and a few links to places where some of those kinds of courses can happen If it would help, here's the link. http://www.homelifeacademy.com/fields-of-study/

Physics101 dvd has almost no math involved if I remember correctly. (I want to say it was without math and was just concepts, but in case there was one equation for a brief second, I'll just say almost no). So it's not going to help any with trig values and any of that math in the apologia book. However, it is a nice video to watch to put the "phun" in physics or to introduce concepts before going to a textbook like Apologia. We enjoyed watching them. I haven't used the apologia made videos to have any idea what they are like.(we just read the apologia text directly.) ps. You may find something helpful for no cost on virtual homeschool co op with apologia physics that could be helpful. I can't remember what the physics was like in that course to know to be more helpful. http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.org/course/index.php?categoryid=4

If the concern is whether jelly is food or liquid, take a look at the foods list on TSA. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/food (several pages of food there) On things like ice cream that is melting, it specifically says in the bag. But with jelly and then later with peanut butter, no mention of the quart bag. And of course on that part of TSA site you are encouraged to take a pic and contact tsa via social media for clarification. There are limits on it for carry on, but they don't seem to have to go in the quart bag. verify with them of course.

I like asides :) uh, yes. If the campus police reports are true it happens frequently at our state school campus. Granted it is a high crime city. but... theft of property in dorms and classrooms is big thing. I know doors are propped open on the private campus where my dd attends. I've had access to my kid's dorm and shouldn't have. walked right in.. and she and her suitemates had the door to common room prop open 24/7. what? It makes it feel more welcoming for "visits" and study breaks was their excuse. LOL. now, granted each bedroom has key entry. but still. better make sure nothing is in the common room that you don't want to lose. wow. thankfully, nothing happened that I learned about. (edit: and my scattered but smart oldest had to learn to keep her keys and id on her at all times. That was new to her, and meant a shopping trip to find the right tool for that.) It also happened when I was in college in the 80s. Doors were propped open. People would let strangers into locked dorms without id. (and there was even a phone to be able to call the room. these days couldn't a parent just use cell phone and say get your butt down here. If you could dress like a pizza delivery guy anyone would let you in.) I still remember the incident with the "peeping tom" in the showers. shake my head. (well, how did he get if we all need our keys to open doors.... hey dude, oh man, I left my key in my room) no one asked and he wasn't even a student at our school!. As students we had this false sense of security and that we were somehow separated from bad things. nope. I don't know if that was because we were young or what. But I think the lesson quoted above is important to teach to understand about the false sense of security. Friends who live on other wings or in other dorms/off campus can walk in with the person who lives in the dorm. You may know your floor mates, but do you know for certain their friends will not steal? nope. People are being "nice" to get the door for you. Or they guess you're someone's mom and just let you in for the asking (well, ok. maybe I wasn't lying when I said I was bringing some meds to my child on third floor and maybe that person knew my child and realized how much we look alike.) Even when I lived in buzzer door apartments, people would just buzz anyone in. A book resource: The Naked Roommate. Harlan Cohen author.

ps. this link may be helpful for time frames http://www.setontesting.com/pdf/SAT10ScopeSequence.pdf edit to include this one as well with more info. (also these links are from seton's site in my above post) http://www.setontesting.com/pdf/stanford-testing-schedule.pdf

As far as I know, BJU only offers the paper version of Stanford 10. time for that version for most levels is about 5-6 hours over 2 days. If I were looking for online version of the test (vs a reputable website to order paper copy), I might check out Seton Testing http://www.setontesting.com/stanford-10-online/ or maybe Abeka http://www.abekatesting.org/StanfordOnline.aspx I don't know which of those companies is better to work with. Hopefully those links can give you specific details on length of time for the specific level of test you are taking. And how many days it will take and all of that. I've never done the line online version, but have ordered from BJU for paper.

Where I live, I get to follow the guidelines of a cover school. This is the *general advice* they share : Early credit should be limited to the following areas of study: Math (algebra 1 or above), Science, World History, and/or Foreign Language. Max 3 credits. so, pretending you live near me and pick the cover school I did..... It sounds like you described a high school course that could be in the Science category. They'll let you list it. (It wasn't just a summer camp kind of thing, right?) You'd probably be encouraged to have more than the minimum of 3 science credits for graduation if you list an early course and have a STEM major in the making. With math, they'd "let you", but would advise that you may still have to have math in each of grades 9-12, so there is no advantage to the college bound student (in our state) to having early math credit. So you might not want to list that one. However, I did list it for my oldest and nothing bad happened. Her transcript did not look padded. She got scholarships and all of that. She's a junior in EE and CS and math. Even so, having Alg 1 in 8th grade did not need to be listed as credit either. She still needed a math each year where we live to be in the competitive market for college admission in her major. . My oldest did not need a high school engineering course. But if she has taken such a thing in grade 8, I might have listed that one.