I agree about checking out Learning Disabilities - that was my first thought, but I was interrupted in typing and never got back to that thought. Whatever the challenge has been - learning disabilities, motivation, behavioral problems - I do think you have to tread lightly in learning how to work around this so he doesn't just hit a wall and resist learning once again. Good luck.

Hugs! So glad is he deciding to work on things now. I haven't been there, so I don't have any experience advice, but I will tell you my thoughts. I think that so much learning is beyond the textbooks and classroom. I'd encourage him to spend lots of time reading and learning. Simply reading anything that is written well will teach a lot of spelling, grammar, vocabulary and reading speed in a natural way. Learning science and history outside of textbook learning teaches that there is always more to learn rather than simply finishing a textbook. I do think huge leaps in ability can be achieved, but I would keep the big picture in mind rather than trying to check off all the boxes of each subject being done to a school standard. Ultimately you want a student that has learned how to keep learning.

LOVE Beast. My big kids fight over who gets it first when a new one comes in the mail and my little guy is saying to give it to him as it's HIS math. Definitely get both the practice book and workbook if you are going to do it.

How I determined AP vs CC was trying to determine what suited my kids the best. I thought the education of the AP classes that my boys were interested in was better than our CC choices so we went that route. This was also important for my boys as they are looking at more competitive programs. CC might fit my daughter better. She will be looking at getting a very different mix of classes rather than traditional AP classes. I agree with looking into the specifics of what you are getting into. Find out as much as you can about the reputation of the CC and professors. Be careful about certain classes with younger students.

I think it is worthwhile to move away from the study of grammar as a workbook subject. I continue to teach it as needed as it related to mistakes in my student's writing. Also I think it's great to use the time as test prep.

Assuming you can teach it, you might look at the geometry chapters of MEP math levels 8-10 for your daughter. It is free and downloadable. It is easy to pick and choose which chapters you need to cover. As far as a program for your next kids, you might look at Derek Owens. It is online video based.

To me, the Lukeion Myth and Muse class looks like a full English credit. For any single year, I don't worry too much if my English credit doesn't cover everything as long as you are doing both literature and writing as you would be doing. In the big picture, I try to make sure my student gets all the parts of English writing and I might have to fill in here and there depending on the route I take to get there. As far as extra literature or writing classes, I'd put them all under English if you sort your transcript by subject - otherwise just list it by year. As far as too much ancient lit, I don't think you can do too much as long as you are ALSO covering the basics of other lit. List her classes. It sounds like she'll look like she has a passion for English and ancient lit and I think this is a good thing.

KET Distance Learning - offers foreign language, physics, economics, arts and humanities. These classes are used by a number of schools in KY by schools without these teachers and they are offered to homeschoolers as well. $100 per course if you live in KY otherwise $450/course + lab fee for physics http://www.dl.ket.org/ Also I don't see Florida Virtual School, but I can't tell you too much about that as I haven't used it.

I looked at schools and none were requiring it so I did not make my son take the essay portion.

We did first aid and CPR, the boy scout requirements of personal fitness and the food safety of the cooking merit badges, discussed reproductive health and nutrition.

I did mine by subject and listed 12th grade classes as "in progress". It worked fine for both selective and state schools. Some applications required us to break classes down by year and we just did the best we could. If you want to do it by year, you could describe the NZ system and then round to the nearest 1/4 credit per year. That'd make things look a little cleaner. If I were you, I'd play around with both ways and then go with whichever best represents your son (which might be the easiest to read or not).

Absolutely include all courses taken during high school in the GPA. If this was a middle school course, then you can just list it as middle school. I made my transcript by subject for two reasons. It highlighted the strengths of my student (think 8 credits math) and some of our classes were taught over more than one grade. Sometimes we'd start a class in spring and finish it in the fall whereas other classes followed a more traditional school schedule. We had no trouble with colleges with this transcript. By the way, I emailed our Vanderbilt admission counselor and asked about weighting grades and calling courses honors. She said not to bother as these distinctions help them separate students within a single school, but are not so helpful in comparing students from different schools. I'm sure other schools/admission counselors might give different advice, but this is what I was told.

I have no problem with applying to more schools if it is somewhere your student would prefer to be over you safe school. If you get turned down from #1 and 2, but have a 3 and 4 ranked higher than your safe school, you shouldn't have to go to your safe school just because you got turned down to the first two.

What does he do with his time? Maybe turn that into an elective - digital technology, PE, Personal finance are all options that don't take too much time if you want.

Yes there are lots of schools in KY and elsewhere that use Total Registration, but that does not mean they take outside students no matter what the options say. I got the counselors permission first at schools that had previously given us AP tests, registered and paid. Two weeks later I got an email from Total Registration saying my tests were cancelled and my payment was being refunded. What??? Then I got an email from each counselor saying the school district was no longer going to test homeschooolers and they had cancelled my tests. (It is no longer a school decision in my area, but a ruling from the district). Also, from past experience, just because it asks if you want a test not listed doesn't mean the school will give it to you. I called other schools within driving distance that used Total Registration and they said no to me. I called over 40 schools. My four tests are registered between three different schools. One used Total Registration and had a deadline to sign up of Feb. 22. :closedeyes: PSAT is the same way as schools in my area can and will refuse to seat homeschoolers for PSAT.

As I said on the college board, my FAFSA EFC is significantly greater than my CSS EFC that the college is using. No mortgage at my home as we own our house.

My FAFSA EFC is greater than my CSS EFC.

Many schools will want to know his senior year schedule. The more selective schools are likely to have an issue with this as it does not show strength of schedule to back off during the senior year. It probably won't affect less selective school's admissions but might affect scholarship opportunities if they ask that information.

I made a list of potential schools and then sat down and discussed them with my son. We picked a few to visit to start with - local and then some farther that had different draws. After visiting a couple of schools, he had a much better idea of what he wanted and we reworked his list. What is going to be important is going to vary a lot between students. For my son, he wanted decently ranked programs in the two areas he was interested in, in driving distance to home, and preferred smaller over huge school. How much you keep looking will also depend of if the top choice is likely to admit and financially feasible.

You can always visit your/his top choices and then apply to more. If you don't get in at the top choices, but get in elsewhere you might want to visit before committing. I think you said your backup is Auckland. Hopefully you either have an automatic admit or can find out early and then you don't need to worry about applying to any school lower than that one. As others have said, all the paperwork of admissions applications, scholarship applications, etc gets old. Some (a little) can be done early. The rest I would rank and so the most important schools first. Look at deadlines. Some deadlines may be after you start to get early decisions so you might be able to postpone certain applications in hopes that you simply find out early about MIT. He may or may not get burned out of all the applications and essays. Good luck. It's been fun to watch your journey over the years.

I've heard very mixed reviews on FLVS. It seems to be very dependent on the teacher/class. Be sure you try to find reviews specific to your classes.

I called 40 schools before finding one to give this exam. I'm paying for the exam and also for the proctor. :closedeyes:

That's correct. They are two separate exams so should each be charged for unfortunately.

Yes, I have an old library set.

There are lots of good writing classes out there. Do you know what you are looking for? My family has really enjoyed the online Brave Writer classes. They are expensive, short, and very good with excellent feedback.