Choosing just one would be very difficult. However, as they were made to be seen and heard, if there were a live version in town, that would strongly bias my choice. Much better than a film, but film is probably better than reading alone. I guess we are all influenced by our own educational upbringing, my own public high school back in the dark ages taught a semester's worth of Shakespeare, where we read one play a week, probably covering a dozen in the semester. So to me, just one play seems rather thin for a high school career.

It should be sufficient to just list French 2 completed in 9th grade.

If you approach the AP test regimen as a strategy to earn college credit, reduce time and lower costs in college, you are likely to be disappointed. I think the more important reason to take the AP tests today is for admissions purposes. To respond to the OP, AP US history (APUSH) is most often taken junior year, and World History sophomore year. AP Human Geography is frequently seen as one of the "entry level" AP, is is often taken freshman year. Obviously, if many typical 9th graders are succeeding at something that is supposed to be equivalent in difficulty to a college class, something is fishy.

There's an email list-serv for latin teachers, called latin-teach. I might subscribe to the list, and post a humble plea there, and see if you can find a nearby teacher willing to help out.

I wonder if there is a subtle attempt to undermine education here. After all, if a perceptive student sees that you can have a successful professional career, yet only score 560 on the Math SAT, why bother studying, or learning math?

It sure is a game. Also consider the "vip app" or "fast app", better called "crap apps", that some colleges send out by the thousands in order to increase their number of applicants, and thus make themselves seem more selective. As selectivity is one of the metrics in the US News college rankings, they are highly motivated to game the system.

I have a hard time believing that only 36 schools in the US admit less than 50% of applicants, especially if you count all the public universities which are out-of-state for any particular student, and thus are much more selective than they are for in-state applicants. In fact, a bit of googling finds this list of 100 schools, whose acceptance rates are less than 33%.

I haven't been able to find any. Another amazing statistic was that in 1991, only 30% of surveyed four year colleges required any foreign language. I think that's changed a lot recently, or maybe it was very skewed based on the competitiveness of a school.

Although 20 years old, this study is interesting. After polling 1,091 four year colleges (in 1991), only 5 were found that required some foreign language for admissions, but did not accept Latin. Other surprises in this report include how much fluctuation there has been in the last 50 years for these requirements.

I think there's just a very small percentages of colleges that don't accept Latin. The only notable ones are the service academies. Look at potential colleges yours might be attending, and see what their policies are. My guess is that if you have student who like Latin, the kinds of schools that don't accept it aren't the kind of school they would be interested in attending.

My public library has pretty good scanners that are free to use -- does yours?

Caesar is kind of dry, the reason the Latin text is so frequently assigned is that the language is very accessible for the beginner. Plutarch is interesting, and a fun assignment around that text would be to select contemporaries for a modern parallel lives. A good translation of Plutarch might be hard to come by. If he's already read I, Claudius, he might be interested in Suetonius, which it was based on. It's neither literature nor really history, but Pliny's letters might be another good complement -- they present more of a "you are there" feeling, and really bring the ancients to life. And, if you are going to read mysteries set in this time, I'd recommend Steven Saylor over Lindsey Davis, as Saylor's works tend to be more historical.

I'm curious if you could be a finer point on this. Is she just not a fast reader, or does she lack reading stamina? How long is she expected to read per night, and how many pages does she read in a sitting? I think part of the goal of literature in the High School years is increasing the student's reading stamina. I would be concerned if expectations are lower than what the student could potentially perform, they could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

A gap year is just a year between high school and college. I don't think the colleges really care what the student does in that year, and I know a lot of kids who would have benefited from a year working a full time, dreary, entry-level minimum wage job before entering college.

I bet they do matter if they are low!

Vocabulary tests on standardized tests were supposed to be a proxy for how well read the student was. As is common for these high-stakes tests, people, especially educators, quickly confused what the test was supposed to be a proxy for, with the exact thing the test is measuring, and started teaching to the test. Now we have the massive words lists for the SAT and GRE that students memorize, as a short cut to doing all the reading. And after a certain base level of English vocabulary is learned, all the extra "hard words" on these tests are so specialized, that it isn't useful to know them. For example, I happen to know what "Terpsichorean" means. It's also a GRE word. But really, where are you going to use a word like that, without sounding like an obnoxious twit?

FYI, one of my pet peeves is when stupid people (and yes, I mean stupid, and no, I'm not referring to anyone here) use the word "ignorant" to mean "stupid" because they think it makes them sound smarter. The two words are NOT synonyms!

The IP and especially CWP books can be tough. I think the text it trying to teach some abstract thinking about numbers here. Bar diagrams aren't going to help. So, you know the product is < 1. What kind of multiplicands yield a result < 1? At least one of them has to be < 1. But they both can't be, because their sum is 6.5. So, the larger number has to be within 1 of 6.5. But if the smaller one is closer to 1 (but still < 1), the multiplication doesn't work out. etc. etc. etc. So, I think you did the right thing with reasoning + trial/error. Sometimes when we're doing Singapore Math, we get the right answer, but follow the "wrong" way. As long as the thinking is mathematically sound, and we're not missing anything, I think that's OK.

Is the 15 credit limit common for scholarships? I thought most colleges charged the same amount for a "full load", where full load is usually 12-18 credits. Some recommend, especially to freshman, that they intentionally register for one too many classes, with the intention to drop of their classes before the drop date. This 15 credit limit could prevent that strategy.

Is #2 a public university? If so, and you move out of state before he accepts, how does that impact residency?

I think it is already on many "top 20 novel" lists, but I think it isn't on many required curricular reading lists just because of length. When there is so much we want our kids to read in high school, it can be difficult to require one novel which consumes as much time as four others.

Many state schools are getting pretty selective these days, and I'd be cautious not to confuse these "minimal requirements for admissions, below which you will not even be considered" with "transcript which is likely to get you accepted". For example, my state's flagship public university has a 2 year FL requirement. However, most of the incoming freshman class this year have 3 years or more of a single foreign language. I bet there were a lot of kids that met these minimum requirements who were not admitted.

Lack of foreign language seems like a red flag. Many colleges want to see three or more years of the same language.

How many are we talking about here? There are "shoe box scanning" services where you can just throw all your old photos in a shoe box, mail them off somewhere, and you get the photos and a dvd back.

I think you are right. Is there something unusual about a field you are filling in (too long, too short, no numbers in street address, funny characters like quote characters in name, etc.)? Maybe something that wouldn't happen if you weren't in italy?