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  1. I agree, my son did all the middle school programs and liked them and absolutely hated the cyber ed high school program.
  2. If she's ready for Calculus have her do calculus. My dd just started at Washington University in St. Louis and took their placement test. I noticed that you can take it even if you are not a student http://www.math.wustl.edu/placement/ Are you thinking of doing Calc. at home. My dd did it at the cc. The cc had placement tests to make sure you were ready for calc. For engineering at Wash U you need to finish your 3rd semester of calc before you begin your sophomore classes.
  3. My dd was accepted Pre-med at Vanderbilt for next year. We got a reasonable need based offer---for our situation----but no merit aid. Her friend got accepted with a full scholarship---she is one of those absolutely phenomonal kids. One small note about their aid---If you have any outside scholarships that is the first thing that is applied to your need. In terms of money my dd did better at less competitive schools where she recieved merit aid---but this will depend on your economic situation. For instance, she got a really generous merit offer from Case Western Reserve. This is a good school if you are interested in medical/biological research. She's going to Wash U in St. Louis---my dh is employed there and we get free tuition.
  4. For some schools you need to finish third semester calculus before you begin your sophomore classes in engingeering. This is the case at Washington University in St. Louis where my dd is attending this coming year. You can take Calc 1 in a special summer session before entering your freshman semester, or take Calc 3 during the summer between freshman or sophmore year. So placement in Calc 2 is not essential---but it might be useful. This is a school dependent issue.
  5. Your classes have more meeting times than the co-op classes we've done. Comparing hourly rate does not sound as bad as yearly. We are in a middle school co-op where classes meet a total of 24 hours a year and a high school where they meet 32 hours. Looks like you are getting over 71 hours of instrruction. Good luck.
  6. Thanks that looks great and just $10.00. My son's done Scratch, Lego Robotics NXT-G and then some C++ with Homeschool Programming. He's 12 and one of the challenges is getting something he can pretty much do himself. I'd also thought of having him do RobotC because you have something concrete to Program. Also my FLL team will not be competing this year. They are changing the timing of the competition, we'll have a Qualifier in Nov, I have no second coach to even help with the research project and I have to do my college applications for my oldest homeschooled dd. So Robot C might be a fun thing to do with the kids who don't decide to look for another team.
  7. If you have any First Robotics teams in your area they use C. My dd's team is alway desperate for programmers---their programming mentor would have taught anyone who made it to the meetings. BTW my knowledge of Fortran came in handy when my son was doing C++. Can't totally explain---but I did have some knowledge about how programming. I guess it's sort of like knowlege of two languages can help you learn a third unrelated language. So probably any language that you have resources for him to be sucessful would be useful.
  8. It does seem a little pricey, I think part of it would depend on how much of the time was spent on lab and how often it meets. If you're busy and have other kids and they do several labs it might be worth the money. One thing you can't buy back is a lost school year, If they spent all their time going over the answers to the study guide/tests in class I would not pay for it. I guess it might be possible that the instructor wanted something the kids could use independently and then planned on adding information with lectures and such. So maybe you could discuss how the text would be used. You might actually be able to step right into the non-majors typically one semester cc course. I would suggest getting local information on the difficulty of your cc---I think they vary---Just as costs and age restrictions do by locations. You'd spend $415 in tuitition for a one semester science class where I live $830 for the two semester science major course.
  9. It's hard to "do well" on the subject SAT's if by "well" you mean getting the same percentile ranking as you would for the general SAT. The group taking the test is selected---includes those needing SAT subject tests---mostly going to selective colleges---and on top of that the individuals pick the subject they think they will do best in. Although all the tests might be taken after one year of the subject there will be individuals taking the test who have AP'ed in the subject. Also truely dedicated individuals will take the test multiple time. I do think that Aplogia is a particularly straightforward science series. We did not use them. And in case you ask---I would not necessarily suggest you do what we did for Chem. She went straight to General Chem at the CC. She survived and got A's in both semesters, but I know it was a tough stressful situation.
  10. My son has TeenCoder, which is a home school program for C++. When my husband asked a computer type at his work what his son should learn he suggested Python---but I found the C++ resource so I went with that. http://www.homeschoolprogramming.com/ BTW I'm old enough to have used Fortran as an engineering student and to have submitted batch jobs on hole punch cards.
  11. We did not use NEM although I'm strong in math because I wanted to be able to move into classes in the US math sequence. My oldest did Jacob's Algebra and Geometry, Foerester's Algebra and Trig, Larson's Pre calc and will begin Cal at the local CC. My second did Jacob's Algebra and Math a Human Endeavor and then went to high school starting in their honors goemetry class as a freshman. My son just started Art of Problem Solving -- the Introduction to Algebra, so far okay
  12. We did not use NEM although I'm strong in math because I wanted to be able to move into classes in the US math sequence. My oldest did Jacob's Algebra and Geometry, Foerester's Algebra and Trig, Larson's Pre calc and will begin Cal at the local CC. My second did Jacob's Algebra and Math a Human Endeavor and then went to high school starting in their honors goemetry class as a freshman. My son just started Art of Problem Solving -- the Introduction to Algebra, so far okay.
  13. You can call it Advance subject or Honors subject. I've actually used the Advanced designation because it implys the it is a second course. Honors course or usually of a similar level but with some more challenging or approach. So in honors Geometry you'd include a few more subjects or some problems that were of a high challenge level. One thing to keep in mind---is that AP tests are offered once a year all in a two week period. It can be quite a stressful time for kid and parent. It's a long test. They are quite a trail by fire for a kid that has not had many structured tests. We did three APs. Still I feel much calmer now that we can use CC courses---where your whole year will not be reflected by performance on one test your child took with a nasty cold. Just wanted to add this because I did AP's after AP class way back when. The stress was much less because I did have an AP class grade from a school with a solid acedemic record. I have been told by an admission councellor that AP scores are not looked at for admission for regular high school students---you need to make sure that the AP scores are noticed. SAt subject tests are another standardized method of establishing competency in a subject. There are also Cleps---I have not done these but they do have the advantage that there are more than one testing time so there is less of an all the eggs in one basket thing going on.
  14. My son is doing Teencoder http://www.homeschoolprogramming.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=cPath=2_5 They say it is a one semester course. It is real programing. He's in seventh grade and doing the high school course. He's my computer oreinted kid and was looking for a challenge. He had to get a little help from me. I programmed in Fortran way back one and did a short non credit course in C#. I'm not sure the explanations are easy if you have no programming background. OTOH he has come close to doing it on his own and is 2 years younger than the target age. It is sometimes discounted at Homeschool buyers co-op. We will probably get the next class when released. He's waiting for the game programming course.
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