Love it!

Very sorry to hear this. I hope you and your family (and your kitties) are spared.

For young people it is difficult to have context for their errors. It's easy for us to appreciate how common it is to be in the wrong room at the wrong time in the wrong building, because who hasn't been there? This reminds me of when my dd was very young and sending out a group email to a bunch of people, and she forgot an important bit of information or maybe it was the attachment after she hit send. She was mortified and in tears over her "mistake." Gosh, how many times have I sent or received an email with an invisible attachment?

You know I had a similar issue where I was trying to find an old thread that I had started and WTM was telling me I didn't have access to it because it was part of a private group. So weird!

Bravo! I'm also the "I hate the trash can on the counter" person. But I have many other "trash cans" in my life. I only wish I could go back in time and tell myself to relax and be less controlling. It was a hard lesson I gradually learned. I only wish I had learned it sooner. Congratulations on your journey: homeschooling is the Appalachian Trail of parenting.

My dd is taking AP physics C and AP calc BC concurrently this year. But we did a bit of self-study using AoPS calculus last spring, so she's had some exposure to derivatives and integrals, but mostly spent time on proofs, lol. She hasn't had any high school level physics. I would think a few Crash Course physics videos might bring your dd up to speed.

Looks like he can look forward to a nice senior year. Congratulations to him!

I'm working through Art Benjamin's Discrete Math course. It correlates nicely with AoPS Intermediate C&P.

Isn't that was grad students are for? DH was a TA, and the most time-consuming part of his job was making copies of handouts. The prof took to calling him (in his most high-pitch snooty voice) "Oh Copy Boy!" OT: I remember having to retrieve my graded problem sets; sometimes they were dumped in a pile in the hall, all of them the same green engineering paper. Soon we took to using highlighters and markers and outline the edges of the paper so they could be more easily identified.

So, why doesn't her mother buy more physics books? Not a curriculum, but for physics fun, I enjoyed Thinking Physics by Lewis Carroll Epstein. For modern physics, I also enjoyed Relativity Visualized by the same author.

I'm organizing my transcript by subject, so I can include some math classes and AP classes that are typically taken in high school.

This brings to mind a flight attendant's safety lecture. "Remember, the nearest exit may be behind you." (Point with 2 fingers on both hands.) In my dd's statistics class at PAH, deep within the middle of the syllabus it said something like: "Because you have read this far into the syllabus, I am awarding you [some number] of extra credit points. Email me to tell me that you have seen this, and I will add EC points to your grade." I thought that was clever and a great way to figure out who has and hasn't read it.

If there is a school that you are interested in, I would name it here or on College Confidential and ask. You may need to be specific as the competitiveness can vary by major.

Can someone explain what these "access codes" are for?

I also attended a school that started at the end of September. I really hated that...all my friends started as much as a month before me. I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way.

Regarding SAT subject tests, if it makes you feel better about those hoops, it is only one hour and all multiple choice, and you can take 1-3 of them at at time. So compared to an AP maybe not so bad.

At high school they get to decide. I have girls and I just didn't want them in a regular middle school. I don't want them in a high school either, but you know, they are getting old enough to want some autonomy.

We used SM and I don't recall any imaginary creatures. However, it did use images of durian which can be quite offensive. :lol:

AoPS publishes a book called Intermediate Counting and Probability. My dd and I learned a lot of new material from that book. The material is often presented in a class called Discrete Math.

Stanford Online High School offers AP Bio, and it's really well taught.

Congratulations on being "hot!" What is you estimation of the quality of the reviews on ratemyprofessor?

I'm not sure if you are aware of this, but another option for satisfying some a-g requirements, including biology is to get a reasonable score on the SAT subject test. I just want to point that out if you are dissatisfied with the course option you noted and would rather take another bio class. D) Laboratory science UC-approved high school courses Two years (three years recommended) of laboratory science providing fundamental knowledge in two of these three foundational subjects: biology, chemistry and physics. The final two years of an approved three-year integrated science program that provides rigorous coverage of at least two of the three foundational subjects may be used to fulfill this requirement. A yearlong interdisciplinary science course can meet one year of this requirement. SAT Subject Test Each test clears one year: Biology: Score of 540 Chemistry: Score of 530 Physics: Score of 530

Here is a link to a list published in the NY Times.

Yes, this particular student is from California, but I don't know much else about him. There are many routes to med school and as long as the student can articulate their path in a way that makes sense to the admission committee. I haven't seen research discussed much on this thread, but I think it's very important to admissions to be involved. It doesn't necessarily need to involve "bench" lab work either. There are lots of fields that are potentially applicable to medicine, and the most important thing is to choose a field that interests and excites the student. For example, research in prosthetics might appeal to "makers" in a way that washing test tubes might not. Med schools are graduate schools after all, and the faculty themselves are researchers, so they will instantly relate to your scientific curiosity, no matter what the field. Great thread!

Same same. I was chatting with a surgeon who was on the admissions committee of a highly selective med school. He was raving about a kid who did 2+2 at cc then state U because he was so smart to get the individual attention at cc and avoid the big crowds at state U, while also saving money. He got in. I think like anything else, you need to take fullest advantage of the opportunities you are given. There are a lot of fields that prepare you for medicine that aren't bio. I would guess CS majors and EE majors would be in demand, particularly if the student is doing medical research, say in prosthetics. That sort of background would be a tremendous asset. Also want to add that at my college, it was chemistry that was the weeder class. Bio was relatively benign.