I have an opinion, but it's just that, an opinion. Not a rule. 😊 Personally I think two languages is enough to juggle until at least one (and ideally both) are at a solid pre-AP level. In other words, if the student decided to take the corresponding AP world language classes next year, you know they'd rock them. The college equivalent would be placing easily into a 5th semester course. At that point, adding a third language is definitely doable, but that's not to say it'll be easy. My senior started with Spanish, added French, and then added Russian. (She also studies a bit of Kazakh and has briefly studied Norwegian and Portuguese.) Russian is her main focus right now, but she is attempting to maintain Spanish & French. She has 2 tutoring sessions per week for Spanish (two different tutors) and one French tutoring session plus an Outschool advanced teen French conversation session. She is easily maintaining the fluidity of her speech, but she is keenly aware that she is losing vocab. To stop the vocab attrition, she'd need to put in a lot more time with podcasts, audiobooks, TV shows, news, etc. But the reality is that there aren't enough hours in the day. In college she'll try to limit herself to a max of 2-3 languages, and that will likely mean putting one of her current languages on pause. On the topic of summer programs, my daughter recommends Université Sainte-Anne's summer French immersion program in Nova Scotia. Note that they do teach French, not Québécois or Acadian French. It is surprisingly affordable; the website lists prices in Canadian dollars. I've posted about it here before, but I'm also happy to answer questions via private message.

The UW STARTALK program is indeed only for heritage speakers. My kid applied to that one last year without realizing. They were polite but firm about limiting the prgram to heritage speakers only. But there are lots of other STARTALK programs for non-heritage speakers. I'd suggest only applying to ones for intermediate and advanced students. The ones for beginners are likely far too basic for an enthusiastic student of Russian with a couple of years of experience. Even intermediate might be too easy. (My daughter just dropped out of an advanced Virtual STARTALK program because it was too easy for her.) We ended up in the a similar situation with respect to classes. My kid took Russian 1 & 2 at CLRC. After that she started working with Julia Denne, and she also meets regularly with two iTalki tutors. 👍 Edit to add: just messaged you with additional off topic info! 😊

The ACT my daughter took had a leaf stem plot. 🙄 Edit to correct myself: stem leaf plot. Whatever. LOL. Out of curiosity, I scrolled the ACT subreddit to see if others were also caught off guard by that one. Seems to be a lot of collective knowledge there about the "once in a blue moon" type math problems that may show up on the ACT.

I found this Georgia website when searching for AP Art History resources: https://gavirtuallearning.org/Resources/Shared-Landing-Page Here's the direct link to AP English Language: https://gavirtual.instructure.com/courses/34337

The company wouldn't make the ID for you, or the school admin rejected it? With access to a color printer and laminator (or carefully applied packing tape in a pinch) you absolutely can make something that looks official. https://www.homeschoolbuyersclub.com/homeschool-id/ My state homeschool association also posts an ID card template that parents can use. Having the name of the state association on it may seem more legit to a skeptic -- even though we know it's no more official than a homemade homeschool ID.

Who would you go to if your son needed a work permit ("working papers" in my state)? That same school or school district employee would want to see a birth cert to verify age and identity before signing off on employment, so maybe they'd see this as similar.

The three things I'd try, in no particular order 1. A different notary - bring birth cert, SS card, family photos, parent ID, etc. 2. Either the high school or district office - bring all the same docs, a friendly employee might be happy to use their seal for this purpose. After all, that same person would verify your child's identity and proof of residency before issuing a school ID if your son planned to enroll in the school. 3. Make up a fancy-looking school ID (I believe there is a template at Homeschool Buyer's Club) print it out, laminate it, call it good! Chances are very high that on the day of the test, no one will check his ID. Since this is a "school day" test, they are not required to check their own students' IDs. Although technically they *should* check outside students' IDs, that info may not filter down to the person who happens to be proctoring in his room. My daughter took PSAT, SAT, ACT, and AP exams last year. She had her ID for all of them, but she was only asked to show it for the Saturday SAT and ACT tests that are open to all comers.

In your shoes I'd leave it off the homeschool transcript. If the credits are unnecessary and it is not fulfilling a graduation requirement, it's just clutter. My older child was homeschooled K-10th and enrolled in a middle college for 11th grade (public high school on community college campus). Because of COVID she came home for 12th grade. I transferred her community college coursework to her homeschool transcript, but I ignored the high school credits for advisory, career explorarion, and test prep. That transcript was sent with all of the others, so it wasn't hidden. It just didn't meet my standards for inclusion on her homeschool transcript. Looking at it from another direction, if your child was tranferring to a high school, the high school would decide what to transfer and what to ignore from the homeschool transcript you provided. You should feel empowered to do the same in this case!

I really doubt this is related to anything your kid did or didn't do. Walking a CD back and forth between two exam rooms would count as a testing irregularity, so I'd assume an investigation was conducted to make sure no students got extra time or any other unfair advantage. Crossing fingers that you get the score early next week!

After that much Latin, Spanish will likely be a piece of cake for this kid. I'd be aiming to do Spanish 1 this year, working ahead in the text, possibly with extra conversation practice via iTalki, and be ready to take Spanish 3 senior year. For providers I'd look at CLRC, WTMA, and Sr Gamache's high school classes (funclase.com). Ray Leven might be a really good choice too. His small class sizes mean LOTS of participation and practice speaking, which is challenging even for strong students. I'd consider his class more of an honors option than other providers. Alternatively, is community college a possibility? College foreign language courses move at approximately twice the speed of high school courses, and that may be a more appropriate placement for this student. (However, note that most students taking community college Spanish 101 also took Spanish in high school, so the student would need to be prepared to work hard!) Leven: https://sites.google.com/site/spanishlearningonline Gamache: https://www.funclase.com/High-School-Spanish-p/hs.htm CLRC: https://www.clrconline.com/spanish-home/ WTMA: https://www.wtmacademy.com/course/spanish-i/

I went to a Jesuit (Catholic) college. Other Catholic orders might be different, but Jesuits are pretty mellow. Half the student body was non-Catholic, and from what I observed, most of the Catholic students did not attend weekly Mass. Zero time was spent on religious activities during classes. That includes the religion classes. Religion classes were academic; they taught about religion but never proselytized.

Some of them were filmed so long ago that streaming rights weren't yet a thing. Here's the official answer (sub Wondrium for TGCP): "This course will be added to TGCPlus if and when we can acquire the rights for the intellectual property owned by third parties in the course. For new courses, we acquire the rights upfront. For older courses like this one we have to go back and attempt to do so and sometimes it is not possible."

The Spanish lectures are great, but they are much more appropriate as a review than for a novice learner. The pace is quite fast, and I'm not a fan of the workbook.

Why would anyone argue about the label middle class without factoring in local cost of living? Middle class is defined differently depending on location. Averages aren't particularly helpful when talking about middle class in a country as large as this one. Middle 50% maybe, but even that might not capture the full picture. Our EFC is over $30K. We have a very modest home in a high but not sky-high cost of living area. We are not in CA, but we are indeed middle class according to various measures, including a recent WaPo calculator based on zip code of residence. https://wapo.st/3oJXu6z It isn't as if we could transplant ourselves to another town in another state and suddenly be considered upper class. Jobs aren't that movable; the cost of selling a home, moving our stuff, and buying a new one is exorbitant (believe me, we've considered it); and salaries in a lower cost of living area would be comensurately lower.

University of New Mexico has lots of cool seminars for students in the honors college. So far my accounting/business major kid has taken seminars in musical theater, drama, and photography. The photography one really threw her in the deep end, as she'd never before touched a DSLR, but she came out of it with a ton of new skills. https://honors.unm.edu/hc-course-previews/index.html Next semester, in addition to the World Building class (https://honors.unm.edu/hc-course-previews/courses/world-building-designing-the-multiverse-of-speculative-fiction.html), she will be taking Old to Middle Irish to satisfy the upper division humanities requirement. With no prior Irish required, it will include study of grammar, translation of short works, and study of short stories in translation.

Schools still submit batch payment for AP exams. Some schools create an online payment system for AP exam fees, but that portal is set up and operated by the school, not by College Board.

The pinned posts at the top of this forum include lots of links to online providers. We've used and liked many: Well Trained Mind Academy for writing, literature, and upper level French CLRC for Russian and upper level Spanish Sr. Gamache (funclase.com) and Sr. Leven (https://sites.google.com/site/spanishlearningonline) for high school Spanish 1-4 Art of Problem Solving for math Fundafunda for Scratch & Python programming Clover Valley for chemistry Clover Creek for physics Aim Academy for history and writing Out of state public online academies in Nebraska and Virginia for courses we couldn't find elsewhere. Not the most amazing experiences, but they were reasonably priced and got the job done.

I don't love Niche's letter grade rankings -- they often seem disconnected from reality -- but I do think the recent student reviews are useful: ENMU https://www.niche.com/colleges/eastern-new-mexico-university/reviews/ Southeastern Louisiana https://www.niche.com/colleges/southeastern-louisiana-university/#reviews

I'd suggest a look at possible college major course plans. If the desired major requires one or two semesters of language, I'd get your student going on a language now, preferably one that could be taken in college. Why? Because many students who enroll in college-level 101 classes took the same language for 2-3 years in high school. In my experience this gives many college profs unrealistic expectations of what true novices can do. The pace of college language classes is much faster as well. The amount of vocab and grammar that needs to be learned in a short period of time can be a stretch even for students who found high school pace language learning easy. As mentioned above, maybe this doesn't need to go on his transcript. But I think it probably could, if you want the credits, as long as you choose something a little gentler. My first pick would probably be ULAT Spanish, maybe paired with William Linney's book Getting Started with Spanish (which has free online audio). And I'd strongly recommend a co-learner, either a younger sib or a parent. It'll be a lot more fun that way.

Edit Nov 2023: My daughter decided the Outschool AP Comp Gov wasn't a good fit, and she really disliked the Ethel Wood textbook. She switched to an asynchronous/independent online class through University of Nebraska High School: https://highschoolstore.nebraska.edu/p-1706-ssth073-advanced-placement-comparative-government-and-politics.aspx. She likes the text (O'Neil) much better. The class is not super inspiring, but it's getting the job done. I was not able to find a testing site -- very few schools in our state offer it -- but she's confident she'd do well if she did take the exam. We're thoroughly enjoying supplementing with NY high school teacher Sean Jacobsen's speaker series: https://www.compgovtipss.com. We were even able to attend Zoom meetings that he organized for his students with UK members of parliament from different parties earlier this month. That was fascinating. (I wish MP Jess Philips was my elected representative!) Original post: I'm thinking about Jennifer Hughes' course on Outschool, Wednesdays 2pm Eastern. (Also offered Tuesdays 7:30 pm Eastern.) My daughter took US Government with her this year and enjoyed it a lot. https://outschool.com/classes/advanced-placement-comparative-government-part-one-full-curriculum-sQUUXImL?sectionUid=0f54eb76-7d46-40a6-8d08-3829ba61edc6 It's been mentioned here before:

Four cats here, I hear ya. I am done with boxes that have seams. We have these top entry boxes. Arm & Hammer Slide litter works well for us (and lasts a long time!). The top entries are only 15 inches high, but if any of our cats couldn't manage it we'd give them steps up. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KVL30NC/ HOWEVER, three of the four usually prefer unmodified open Rubbermaid 30 gallon bins. We put a top entry box right next to the Rubbermaid bin. The cats jump to the lid of the top entry and then hop down into the bin.

Heh. My kid would murder me if I put her in a class before 10am. And 10am is pushing it. But she's happy to do afternoon classes, and she'll even consider evening classes. BTW, for those of us on the east coast, AOPS classes are night classes.

Rolling admission schools are good for this. The first two that come to my mind are Arizona State and Pitt. Also, my college sophomore is at University of New Mexico. They accepted her in January, within a couple days of her decision to apply. IIRC, UNM's application was super easy and may have had no essay. (In case it matters, my daughter has found UNM to be LQBTQ+ friendly. Her on-campus apartment of 6 students includes two trans students and two NB students.) https://blog.prepscholar.com/colleges-with-rolling-admissions

My junior is a serious language learner. She refuses to take classes from teachers that use too much English. In your shoes I'd have him choose a new language with a good teacher for school, but keep Chinese (and perhaps French too) moving forward with an iTalki tutor once or twice a week. As an experienced language learner, he may find that any new language class will move a lot slower than he'd like. Another Romance language would probably bore him to tears -- although Spanish subjunctive *is* a whole 'nother story, not like French. But if available, maybe he could choose something that'll give him a serious challenge: Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, possibly German, etc. Or perhaps a less demanding language will be appreciated if the rest of his plate is full. He may need to try a lot of iTalki tutors before finding one that suits him. That is normal. On iTalki consider *not* using trial lessons if the price difference is small. For example, if a trial is $7 but a regular lesson is $9, just book a regular lesson and save the trial for a time when it actually saves you money. (Once trials are used up, you never get more, even if you switch languages.)

In our experience AP CS A earned credit at some schools my daughter applied to. However, IIRC AP CS Principles would not have earned credit at any of them.