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  1. Probably not. Mine might have even been okay and had those boxes checked with zeros input. Since I couldn't see what had actually transferred, I just thought it would be safer to manually input. Did your EFC come out about how you expected?
  2. It took me a good chunk of the morning to do yesterday, but that was because I spent the time setting things up to transfer my tax data from the IRS and when I looked at what was being checked off on the fafsa, it did not seem right. (The SE retirment box was checked and the lifetime learning box was checked and neither of those apply to us). So, I re-input the info manually. It also took me a bit of time to figure out how to handle the personal investments section and what actually needed to be included. But then, I am experiencing murphy's law for everything I go to do lately. I went to print my school profile and we had no paper. I reloaded the paper tray and then it said toner low. I went to order toner from amazon and it said it couldn't because I didn't have a valid payment option. (There had been fraudulent activity on my cc.)
  3. I dropped my dd off at 8:45 for the 9:00 test and they weren't done until until 1:15. She said they didn't even start reading the instructions until 9:40. As soon as she got in the car, she thanked me for home schooling her. :)
  4. The sheet I was given by the school said they should be done by 12:45. Testing began at 9:00. I am planning to get there at 12:15. It is amazing how long they can take to go through the directions and such with a room full of students. The SAT subject tests are only an hour and yet, my dd was at the school for at least 2.5 hours for it.
  5. But, if she defers, would she still be able to take classes at the CC? At one point, I had considered having my son apply to colleges and then defer, but then I thought he wouldn't be able to take any classes during that year.
  6. I was wondering the same thing a couple of weeks ago. What I've found is that we've pretty much had to write a description for each activity that would go on the resume anyway so the only thing left is formatting it to look nice. Also, there is only room for about two sentences in the student activities section, so I can see where the resume would be helpful for some activities. I agree that it would be particularly nice to have for interviews. Three of the four colleges my ds is applying to have a space where they allow you to upload your resume.
  7. Thank you! I think I will put speech on there. It was an awful lot of work and he did pretty well with it. I guess I was just questioning it since he did not continue this year. He really doesn't need any more elective credits and I don't want to write another course description or change my transcript, lol! The transcript and the course descriptions are d.o.n.e.
  8. My ds has a number of really substantial activities to list that involved volunteer work, boy scouts and paid work. Those things seem easy to write a description for and seem worth putting on his application. But what about activities he was just a participant in, such as a local strategy games club? Or his one year in speech club? He did participate in tournaments the year he did it, but did not continue with it. Should I list these things as activities or not?
  9. My dd is taking this as a 10th grader this year and the school did give us a homeschool code to use on the instruction sheet they handed out. I'm thinking this sheet must have been copied and reused from a prior year though if the PSAT instructions say no code.
  10. I like the idea of using Spanish121, but I would also make an anki deck with all the vocab she learned and make charts of the verb conjugations she covered in Spanish 1 and have her drill herself on them every once in awhile.
  11. Does anyone have any information they can share about either of these colleges? We are looking for one more smaller liberal arts college for my ds to apply to that isn't too far and I noticed these on the CTCLs list.
  12. Oh yuck, maybe it is a hernia. The idea of that is making me so nauseous I'm actually feeling light-headed.
  13. I post mostly on the high school and college boards, but I've had something weird happen and thought maybe someone here had experienced something similar. I don't want to head to the doctor unless absolutely necessary. Twice in the last few weeks, I have bent from the waist to pick something up off of the ground and it feels like, in the area right under the left side of my my ribcage, one of my internal organs has flipped upside down. It is a very odd feeling and I've never experienced anything like this before. It is very painful and I will have to stay bent over for a minute or so and then I can very slowly straighten back up. I wind up with a little soreness in that area for a few days after, but then everything seems normal again. Has anyone else had this happen or have any idea what it could be?
  14. My dd's favorites were: Ancients -- Odyssey and the Aeneid. (She says when she first read them, The Odyssey was her favorite, but now she's really into the Aeneid.) Medieval/Renaissance -- The Agony & The Ecstasy (fun, engaging read ) Bullfinch's Age of Charlemagne (harder read, but highly interesting) Modern -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Paradise Lost My ds's favorites: Ancients -- The Illiad Medieval/Ren -- Dante's Divine Comedy Modern -- Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm
  15. Well, I'm glad to hear that! Maybe I'll put my counselor letter and school profile aside and work on that instead this weekend.
  16. I'm going to have to think about this and see what I can come up with. I can see that if I don't get this part right, I may limit opportunities for him. In Correlano's case and I suspect Julie's, their boys have achieved at a higher level and have either APs or dual enrollment to validate their success. For my son, as I stated in my op, his accomplishments have been pretty typical and he has no dual enrollment or APs. I'm very proud of my son's accomplishments and think they are just right for him and that he will do well, but the only "validation" I have is his ACT score, which I am thrilled with, but it isn't a perfect score either. I've gone from not being worried about this at all because he's not going for highly selective schools to worrying about every single thing I do and say and what the impact of that may be.
  17. I know there have been public schooled students who have taken the Spanish class my dd is in for credit. They were able to get permission to do so from the school ahead of time.
  18. Tammi, is she still being treated? Has she had her thyroid checked? I went through years of treatment for lyme and really struggled with memory and learning during that period and for quite some time afterward. Learning had always been very easy for me and it was eye-opening to see how it felt to struggle in that area. I felt really stupid and incompetent for awhile and it was embarrassing to me. I think the treatment also impacted my thyroid somehow and until I went on meds for that my mind was like a sieve. Since ending treatment, I have gradually returned to my former self. Maybe not totally, but I am also hitting the menopause years, so I'm in a different situation from your dd. I also have a friend who had a very bright dd who went through a number of years of treatment for chronic lyme and really struggled in school. She's now at a select university and doing well. So, I don't think these effects are forever and I do think they are much worse while going through treatment and shortly afterwards. I think if you have already seen big improvements, you will continue to see more. Also, while there are improvements that you can see, your dd may be comparing her former abilities to her current ones and still really feeling the difference. I know I did and I never thought I'd be the same, but I really have gotten so much better. I hope so much that your dd does as well. It just may take some time. What about considering a 5th year of high school to take some of the pressure off? Maybe tell your dd, you only want to her to spend from M-F from 8:00-3:00 on school and then if it's not done, then that's okay, but she needs to have a life outside of school. B vitamins might be worth taking as well.
  19. I'm working on finding examples for this and came across a pretty helpful link on these boards from last year. I'm posting it for anyone else who might find it helpful. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/626737-school-profile-homeschool-description-etc-help/
  20. I'm not sure if he'll need accommodations or not, but I will probably try to at least get him extended time in case he needs it. I guess I was under the impression that it was best not to mention lds or accommodations until after acceptance. But maybe I'm wrong?
  21. A lot of the success of homeschooling for my son was that it has allowed him to achieve at levels he never would have been able to in the public school system due to learning disabilities. In kindergarten, he had to retake the CAT because he scored lower than the 20th percentile. He got a 34 on the reading portion of the ACT this year, 29 composite. I don't think he would have made it through algebra 1 with the way the school does math and he is solidifying his precalculus this year. Overall, his achievements are not amazing if you compare him to top students -- 4 years of English, 4 years of SS, 4 years of science, 3 years of foreign language and no dual enrollment or APs -- but they ARE stellar FOR HIM. This is the whole reason I began homeschooling (well, this plus the fact that he has many, many food allergies and I didn't feel he'd be safe in school), but I don't exactly want to highlight his lds. How can I approach this in a positive way?
  22. My ds has always struggled with writing and he took his first BW writing class this year for his college application essay. He and I both really liked the approach and I wish we'd tried these classes sooner. There was lots of positive encouragement and feedback. There was constructive criticism, but it didn't feel like criticism. If he had time in his schedule, I'd sign him up for another one of their classes.
  23. Thank you. This is what I was wondering. It probably wouldn't be that much extra work to actually create a resume if we already have to compile all that information for the student activities section (not that I'm looking to create another document!), but it seemed like it would be redundant.
  24. Did you do one in addition to completing the student activities section of the common app?
  25. And of course, I am the blind leading the blind. I have no real idea how important it is to do that resume or not, so I hope we get some more opinions from others.
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