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  1. he'll be in for another appointment later next week - so before the auditions, but not long before the Michigan audition. He can walk, a few steps at most. But says it hurts quite a bit to do so. Dr didn't give us a grade - I'll send them email and ask. We'll def take a note - that's a good idea. re: "Do you have video of him dancing you can offer up to these schools? " that much is required to get the audition when you apply to the school, so they have some reference material. The on-site audition varies by school - some of them you go in with a routine, some of them it seems they teach you a routine there and that's what you're supposed to do. <sigh> it will be, what it will be. He's supposed to ice and use an exercise bike for now. We'll just do that and see where he is.
  2. DS has applied for MusicTheatre programs at various colleges & universities. He's got 3 onsite and one video auditions in January and February. The format varies quite a bit from place to place, but all include both singing AND dancing. The other day he fell while ice skating and hurt his knee pretty badly. MRI results just in - sprain or partial tear of ACL and MCL. Nothing is a complete tear, Dr asserts it'll heal on its own and be just fine. But I don't see how there's going to be any amount of dancing 4-8 weeks from now. Not sure what to do. Do we contact the schools right away and let them know? What if he's able to dance by the time the latter ones come around? still worth having notified them? I guess there's no chane he'll be 100% by then, so they should know? Michigan is his favorite - that's in mid Jan. I don't see any way he'll be dancing by then. I'll be happy if he's no longer walking with a cane and a knee brace. Singing & acting are his strengths - not the dancing so much - but surely this can't help with admissions. arggh. really not sure what to do.
  3. late to the thread..but... Java and Python are both programming languages, as are C and C++. All are fairly similar (of the 4, Python is the most distinct). All are in widespread common use today (except C. Almost no one writes anything in C except very low-level software) Of the set, Java probably sees the most widespread usage and is a decent starting place. It's what's used for AP CompSci, FWIW. That said...MIS is mostly about everything EXCEPT programming. You need to be able to do it, and it's a handy skill for nearly every job these days. But mostly, MIS is about managing systems - of data, of people, of processes. It's an operations job/degree. I might suggest (since you don't need credits) some fun information mgt projects. Get an EchoDot and program some new Alexa skills. Or, assuming the student has enough math, check out some of the introduction to machine learning coursera classes.
  4. DD is now in the second year of ASL w/ OpenTent. She absolutely loves it. Just based on amount of work, it's not as difficult/rigorous as other foreign language classes. however, she does seem to be learning. She started signing for many of the songs at church. I'm skeptical there are any deaf people in the congregation, but the music director is super excited about having this and she seems to like doing it <shrug>. I have no basis for judging if she's any good, tbh.
  5. That’s a good, and very practical, set of goals. I think this sort of thing is often best learned in a practical way. I’d suggest a few it-computer projects be defined and you ask for a write up in google docs and a cost breakdown in an excel doc. youtube is an excellent resource for information if you have a specific question you’re trying to solve as are topic specific help forums. Example projects might be: setup an automatic backup system for the computer(s) you currently have. Macs and windows both have such systems, but you have to enable them, pick the storage location, etc. show that you know how to restore a deleted file. Assuming you have a wifi in your home, evaluate how secure it is. Bonus - setup a vpn. check your internet providers webpage - is this the best deal in your area? How much more do they charge for a better connection, how much better is it and why would that mater? get or borrow a web cam (super cheap one will do) and set it up.
  6. (parent of 1 Eagle scout, with another headed that way). My first thought was that his scoutmaster/council shouldn't have let it get this out of hand. The benefiting non-profit can sometimes run away with things. e.g. "they said they felt it was important that the person doing the project had the responsibility of funding the project." There isn't a defined amount of time for an Eagle project (a widely used rule of thumb is 100 hours collectively, but the scouting rules do not state a specific amount of time). Frankly, this seems excessive. Is there really NO intermediate milestone that could be a reasonable 'Eagle portion of the project is done' milestone? Beyond that, I'd at least breakout some portion and list it separately as a significant amount of volunteer time to the organization. "He spent months and months raising money and getting donations of both money and materials worth about $1800." wonder if you couldn't grow that into some kind of 'economics of non-profits' item?
  7. what kind of computer literacy are you thinking about? practical word processing and spreadsheet use, or how the internet works, or basics of managing backups and hole-level IT, or the 10k-foot view of how this stuff works? what's the goal?
  8. DS got into Carthage for both Econ & MusicTheatre and an invite to the 'honors program'. He's in the running for a president's scholarship, but automatic merit scholarship and other things makes most of tuition already covered. This is his backup school, so he'll get to go someplace! 🙂 CMU MusicTheatre declined him an audition. he was sad. He didn't think he'd make it in, but thought he'd at least get to the onsite audition. 😞 still waiting to hear from several others.
  9. based on my DS's experience, even the compressed, 1/2-year micro was less work than the 1/2 year macro. He felt it was less fun and interesting as well. Loved Dr Richman.
  10. after a bit of improved google-fu.... https://www.kutasoftware.com/freeica.html http://www.math-aids.com/Calculus/Differentiation_Rules/Chain_Rule_Trig.html are not bad. if you have one you think is better I'm interested.
  11. having understood the theory, this seems like a place were a bit of drill-and-kill would help. It's just easier to do the rest of calc if you don't have to think 'now...what was the derivative of sin?' Anyone got a source for pages and pages of polynomials, expressions, trig equations, etc...so we can practice chain-rule and product rule and derivatives of trig and exponentials till it's just automatic? When the kids were little I generated pages of arithmetic practice in excel. Not sure how to do that in this case...but that's what I'm looking for.
  12. yeah - we looked and it seems like you have no choice but to enter it as text. We cleaned up all of the text, just typed it directly into the box and italicized something, then hit review. And are seeing the same problem. DS decided that he'd rather risk having the reviewers see it with an extra new-line (and expects that they'd understand where it came from) than risk having it show up un-italicized and having them think he didn't know how to correctly identify the title of a play....so he's going with italics.
  13. Thanks for all the replies and suggestion! - Mitty (and all of the Catholic private HS's around here I've contacted) categorically refuse to allow outside students to take AP exams. - All the public schools here will let you sit for them, no problem! As long as you'd be going to that school if you weren't homeschooling....and none of the schools in our district offer, or are willing to admin, MT. - we've also had good luck w/ the upscale private HS's and the various independent learning centers. Except for this particular exam, as it requires quite a bit of 'extra' to administer. - CollegeBoard has a (I think it's new) website that let's you search for locations that have given a specific AP exam in the past, by geography! 252 places in the state of California for MT. I've called probably 60% at this point. - "Call CSMA and look for Kirsten Shallenberg" thanks. will do. - Berkekely HS is the current best bet. They'll let any one sit for any exam they give, if they have space. they're checking on space..and if so, that's where he'll do it. "On AP MT, one reason why it isn't common is that music schools often don't accept it." this. He's a senior so score will have no impact on any college admissions and he knows no one will give him credit for it. He's SUPER glad to be taking the class - he has a singing performance background but little music theory. He's said he'd prefer to take it, but won't be upset if he can't . Which makes me wonder why I'm spending QUITE so much time chasing it down....but that's another issue. 🙂
  14. +1 (+2 even!) I asked the same question of CB and got the same answer - no way to know who's offered what. This like gives me at least the list of the 252 schools in the state of CA that have offered MT recently. Warming up my phone dialing finger.....
  15. trying to find a place to DS to take AP MusicTheory. It's not super common, and it takes a bit of extra to proctor it (listening + I gather recording stuff?). This is proving problematic. The places we've done this in the past aren't offering MT. So I called CB and got the usual 'give me a city and I'll provide you with 4 places you can check with'. Fine. Place 1 - they do not, nor have they ever, proctored or offered AP MT Place 2 - they do not, nor have they ever, proctored or offered AP MT Place 3 - it has the name of the city I gave her in the name of the school, but is actually in Florida, not California. Place 4 - is in the village by same name as the city I gave her, but is actually on an island in Guam. We are not in Guam. I gave her the state and zip when she asked, so it's not like this is impossible to have gotten this right. On calling back...they have no ability to identify schools that offer MT, specifically. This is going to make for a very large amount of phone calling. 😕 Anyone have a BayArea location that's offering it? Or are you looking for one - maybe if there's more of us we can convince one of the testing sites?
  16. He cut-and-paste from the screen of a GoogleDocs file. If original source matters, then I wonder if this is about the editor leaving hidden markup tags in the document that it doesn't render correctly (<shudder> memories of wordStar come rushing back to me). We'll try rm'ing the whole text and see if it works if you have nothing else. also...directly uploading a PDF? I didn't see an option for that in the essays...but Ill look again. That'd be the way to go! If everyone else isn't also having this problem then we're clearly doing something wrong, so we'll try again. thanks.
  17. Anyone else having this issue? DS has the titles of a few plays in his college essays, entered through common app's website. They look correct when entered, but there's a 'preview' that generates a PDF that is apparently what the reviewers actually see. In that, each sequence of italicized words comes out on it's own line. Like the above. Same if you use underlining. We tried generating the 'preview' on both a chromebook and a mac. Same result. Anyone else getting this? Google is failing to find this issue for me.
  18. 1) decide what you want to do. The majority of career paths for Physics include a PhD. Is that what he wants? If so, then choice of undergrad should be based on what will get him into the best Physics PhD program because that's the one that will actually matter. 2) if it's engineering, what kind? If it's electrical or computer/software I would seriously consider StonyBrook. It has, imo, the best reputation of the SUNY's to employeers outside the area. It is, for example, the only SUNY that Amazon directly recruits from. (if you want a job straight out of college at most of the 'big tech' co's you will need to be graduating from one of the universities they directly recruit from. you can get a job there w/ a degree from anywhere if you've worked someplace else but they generally only recruit 'fresh-outs' from a limited set of places..it's a technique for winnowing down the massive # of applications'. I get why everyone is super debt averse re: collect. That said, if you're in a high-demand tech field the delta in first-year compensation from a top-tier univ vs a middle one can easily be 50k/year. It may, or may not, eventually even out depending on job performance. Eventually, no one looks at this and only as what you've done before or are able to do in an interview loop. OTOH, what you did before depends in part on where you were able to land for your first job. So it does matter. To be clear - I am __not__ saying that there's no path for a successful engineering career unless you go to a top-tier univ. Definately not. I am saying that it's easier and usually more lucrative, however, from a top univ. In fields like comp sci & EE, if you can get to the top-tier univ it's almost certainly worth the debt.
  19. TBH, I'm surprised admin committees would accept this. it just encourages personal biases.
  20. Both my DC have (one currently is) done ScoutsBSA (the org formerly known as BoyScouts. Girl Scouts is structured differently). We've found it to be especially good for teaching this skill. Done correctly, scout troops are run by scouts. Youth pick the outings, badges to work on, run meetings, plan and execute campouts, track everything, do most of the instructing, etc. Adults are there to ensure safety and to assist - when asked. That last bit has been the key. 100% of the adult leaders we've encountered would bend over backwards to help - but the individual scout must initiate and ask (sometimes adults, sometimes older scouts) for whatever it is they need.
  21. I'm curious - PAH indicates that stats must be taken before or concurrently with AP Psych. did you? If not, how much back-filling of math skills was necessary?
  22. doing a transcript for the first time for DS17s college apps. I looked @ a few of his target Uni's, and none of them listed a requirement for having taken PE or heath or similar in HS. He's got plenty of credits (6 classes / year) w/o adding them, and it'll actually bring his weighted GPA down because there's no such thing as 'honors PE'. He's a year-round swimmer, so it wouldn't be a big stretch to get a credit for that, or we could do a unit of heath or whatever this year. But will anyone object if we just skip it?
  23. BS-Eng w/ some focus vs BSME will depend on the school, much more than the degree. Some truly excellent programs (Harvey Mudd comes to mind) only offer an 'Engineering' degree, and students specialize within that. HM, in particular, focuses on producing 'shovel ready' engineers and recognizes that all real projects are cross-disciple so everyone gets at least some exposure to everything, even though each student has a focus. I'd suggest selecting based on the quality/reputation of the program, rather than the specific degree.
  24. Consider AWS/google/azure (pick one) cloud certifications. Large portions of currently on-prem computers,data,etc are moving to the cloud and it’s a distinct skill that’s highly marketable. All the big cloud providers have good certification programs.
  25. yup. I didn't struggle with Calculas, but I did with Stats and I didn't really enjoy either. Discrete math, however, was fantastic. Especially the graph theory and Galois arithmetic.
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