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  1. That's very interesting! Your experience was so different from my experience. I will be interested to hear from others. I wonder if geography matters... my high school was in Virginia.
  2. I graduated from good public high school in 1987 that offered one AP class - AP Chemistry. I took the class as a junior. We did not take any practice tests in class or do a lot of review. I did no review outside of class nor did my peers that I know of. I walked into the test cold, took it, and scored well enough the place out of Chemistry at the state university where I majored in engineering. It was pretty much the same for the SAT. We took it once without the prep classes, etc. and that was it. I was not a gifted student, just your typical hard worker. I took two other AP tests my senior year without the official courses and with the same lack of prep and did fine again. Fast forward to today... my son is taking AP Chem, and the test prep is significant. Many, many practice tests and all of the tests through the year have been geared to be like an AP test. I am gearing up to teach AP Calculus next year and the emphasis on test practice is not insignificant. I am trying to wrap my brain around this. Is it harder to score well these days because the curve is driven higher because kids are prepping more which drives the curve up which.... you get the idea. :) Or are the tests just harder now? Thoughts?
  3. Gwen, The only Solution guide I can find is from 1994, but the texts that are most readily available are from later dates. Did you have trouble with the copyright being off? Thanks!
  4. Thank you so much! The Juegensen Geometry was already on the list, too! We are good to go.
  5. If you used or are planning to use Dolciani for Alg I and II, what did you use for Prealgebra and Precalculus? Thanks!
  6. Thank you Snowbeltmom. I have dipped my big toe in there a couple of times, but then it quickly gets overwhelming. I guess I need to force myself back in! :)
  7. We are entering the process... help! In particular, swimming is the sport. We are squared away with the NCAA. I am mainly interested in what the interactions with the coaches and admissions might look like. Thank you!
  8. Is it safe to assume that the Nutrition at Cornell would be a difficult spot to get if some majors are harder than others?
  9. How would you say that the instructor's gift of teaching is conveyed without the live component? My son even takes a class with PAHomeschoolers, and it is still kind of lost on me exactly how the teacher is teacher, rather than facilitating. I have asked my son and in typical teenage boy speak, I didn't get much of an answer...
  10. I was just coming to post about a concern that I have about math textbooks when I saw this thread. Like many of you, I have my shelf full of the oldies but goodies of math textbooks. DS2 is working his way through a 1960's version of Dolciani this year. My concerns is that as these books become more and more scarce or go out of print like Jacobs, what do I tell the young moms coming up behind me who ask about which texts to use. I am especially wondering in light of Jann's issues raised about the Common Core. Let's assume that the next generation may not have the oldies but goodies. What would you recommend now?
  11. Has anybody created an AP Calculus AB Syllabus that they would be willing to share? I would like to get an idea of what the College Board is looking for. Thanks!
  12. That is what I suspected based on the timing... thanks!
  13. All of a sudden since Monday, DS has been bombarded by email from colleges. He took the November SAT but these are not the schools to which he requested scores be sent. Has this happened to anyone else? Could anything else have triggered this? How did they get his email? thanks!
  14. I have an Electrical Engineering degree. I never played with Legos or built anything growing up. I never took apart a toaster. My verbal SAT was higher than my math SAT. I am a big picture person, but I can do details if needed. My husband also has an EE degree and did build computers in his spare time. He is the introvert with the dry wit, and I am the raging extrovert. Even though we have the same degree, we don't understand at all what each other specialized in. All that to say, I am not sure there is typical engineer anymore. The field is so broad that I think there is room for many different types of students, provided you can do the work and are strong in math and science.
  15. If student athletes can be contacted after July 1 of their Junior year and start official visits in early fall of their Senior year, how does that timing line up with most schools' applications being due on December 1? Do the coaches wait for admissions to do their thing after Dec. 1? Or do athletes do something different as far as submitting actual applications? Thanks!
  16. After using the College Board search feature to identify schools that carry the programs in which DS is interested (Nutrition, kinesiology, or neuroscience), where do you go to see which schools are strong in which programs? Any thoughts on how to continue to narrow down the list from an academic standpoint?
  17. Many, many years ago, I answered this one for University of Pennsylvania: "You have just finished your three hundred page autobiography. Please submit page 217." Cracked me up that it might still be around.
  18. My daughter would like to be a pharmacist! Anyone want to talk pharmacy schools???
  19. Thank you so much for your input! Assuming he will be evaluated in the same large pool, would anyone think that homeschooling would be an advantage or irrelevant as long as other admission criteria were met? He has pretty much met the criteria for the diploma, and we will be using it for NCAA purposes no matter what. The transcript from the online school will not include additional coursework (work done at home and from other online providers) so I will need to supplement somehow anyway. Just trying to figure out whether to highlight the diploma through the online school's transcript and supplement with my own or just do it all myself....
  20. We are trying to figure out what would be the most advantageous route to college admission. We can pursue a diploma from an online school which makes things seem "official," but at the same time it would pretty much lump DS in with all other typical high school grads. The online school is good but it isn't going to have the reputation with admissions that established B&M schools would have. If we pursued admissions as a homeschooler, he would be (perhaps?) evaluated against a smaller pool. I am not sure though. A homeschool admissions might actually allow him to stand out more? Any thoughts?
  21. Thanks Jen We have been taking SAT II as we go and have managed two 700+ scores so that is good. He hasn't done the Math II yet, and he is not anxious to! SAT scores are above 700 in critical reading but math and writing are lagging. We still have two more years so hopefully he can get those up. His passion is swimming which takes about 30 hours per week so it is hard to find time for a lot more, but he does teach swim lessons at the Y. He is interested in medicine and volunteers once a week at an inner-city medical clinic. He loves that too! So that is where we are with two years to go....
  22. How many is "enough?" DS is interested in some selective schools so I know some would be helpful. I just don't know how many. He took AP Latin and Bio this year (10th) He is planning to take AP Lang and Physics next year (11th) And then probably AP Lit, AP Chem and Calc BC in 12th. The elective-type exams don't match his interests so much. Also, we have used Omnibus for history so I am not sure how to match that to an AP exam. Do you think we might need more like AP Gov or US History? Thanks!
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