Fingers crossed for her! Older ds will have his last test on Thursday (statistics).

Hang in there! :grouphug:

Sending good thoughts! My senior has been struggling all year.

This is finally true about my older ds (currently a senior). The complete opposite is true about younger ds (currently a sophomore). This year has been a nightmare of time management issues. Hopefully maturity and experience will make next year better? I'm really envying those who are finishing already. Older ds has a final in his college class next week, but the public high school finals aren't until mid-June (I think the last day of finals is June 20). In the AP classes, this post-test time just drags on forever. All three of older ds's public school classes are AP!

That's sounds very stressful for your dd. I hope the test goes ok for her! My older ds is also taking the bio now. It's his least favorite of the three he is taking.

Thanks, I'll try to remember to post how he does.

My ds has not studied extra for the US history SAT subject test. I'm not at all confident in this plan, and I wish he would have taken it more seriously. He's only a sophomore though and has time to take more SAT subject tests as needed. I will add that my older ds took APUSH 2 years ago, and also took the SAT subject test without extra prep. He's a serious history kid though and got an 800 without stress. I fear that younger brother saw that and interpreted it to mean that the SAT subject test was easy.

I need to add how happy I am for my older ds who is taking AP biology next week. He has really disliked the class, and particularly disliked the public school teacher. She has given them some wrong information, explained things badly, and just not done a great job overall in my opinion. The good news is that she's going to be gone for three of the weeks post-AP, and the substitute is an absolutely wonderful guy. I'm sure the class will have a great time and may learn some cool stuff. I'm honestly surprised that they hired him, since he hasn't even graduated from college yet.

I hope your dd makes it through, sounds like a rough day. My younger ds is also taking APUSH today. He's taking the US history SAT subject tomorrow so he's not done with the history yet!

DS still hasn't decided! We sent an acceptance to Dickinson College, but he has since received an acceptance off of a wait-list at Macalester College. He has to decide soon if he wants to go to Macalester. He's still on 4 more wait lists too, so who knows what will happen! Planned major is history, but he's hoping to double major with the 2nd major totally unknown. After saying that he hates math for all of his homeschooling years, he now says he's considering a math major! Or possibly economics, philosophy or something else.

:iagree: Glad you've found a work-around.

DS was very blase about the AP Lit. He's confident he did well on the multiple choice, and thinks the essays went OK. He was *very* disappointed with his 4 on the AP Lang last year, so we'll see if he pulls a 5 this year. He's got 2 more next week, then he's going to have serious attitude problems about going to his public school classes. They're all (3) AP classes, and classes continue until mid-June.

Thanks, good to know. My dc only use one school. So sorry to hear this! I hope she feels better soon.

Hmm. I didn't know about the stickers. Now I'm curious. I assume the school has been handling it for dc. This is older ds's 4th year taking APs there.

If only! I think both of my dc's rooms are worse than ever right now. And I don't have the heart to nag. Perhaps I should try to explain how cleaning can act as stress-relief?

Good luck to all the dc taking exams today! An update on my younger ds. He said they put him in the vocational wing of the school, which I think is less busy. I didn't ask him about bells/announcements, but he didn't seem too upset. He was pleased that one of his friends was there with him taking the AP environmental science. His friend didn't take it with the other kids from the school because he gets accomodations (large print, more time, etc.). I guess we'll find out in July how it went. His next AP is Friday for US history. Luckily he's taking that class at the public school so he'll know where to go and what to do. And his teacher is lovely - she provides snacks and tries her best to de-stress the kids.

Thanks! As far as I know he is the only one taking the exam at the school (the school doesn't offer AP chemistry), so I just hope they find a quiet place for him to do the exam. I've been told that the reason why they do most AP tests off-site is so that there aren't bells ringing, announcements, students making noise, etc.

Joker, I hope your ds is ok for the AP chem today. My younger ds panicked this weekend because he realized that he didn't know where to be when for the AP chem exam. The APs for the local public school are generally taken off-site at a church. Older ds told him that he was sure all the APs would be there, and he should just go to the church at 7:30 am. Younger ds is a stressy kind of kid and insisted that he wanted to go to the high school early first to check with guidance. So dh drove him to the school this morning and waited outside in case he needed to drive him somewhere else. DS apparently had a hard time getting an answer, but finally texted dh 20 minutes later saying that he needed to stay at the school. Hopefully all is well. I feel badly that I didn't check that ds knew where to go before the weekend. I just assumed that he knew. I'm concerned that running around stressed this morning wasn't helpful for his test-taking abilities.

My dc are each taking three. Older ds is relatively unstressed and is taking statistics, biology, and English literature. He already has a college plan. If he does well, he'll get more credits, but he doesn't really *need* them, so he'll be ok no matter what happens. Younger ds is taking chemistry, English language, and US history. He's way more stressed than his brother. I'm way more stressed about him too. His scores matter for college applications, and he isn't necessarily well prepared. He's also very sensitive on the subject and reminders about studying tend to induce break downs. His online chemistry class in particular wasn't great, and in hindsight we probably could have done a better job without the class.

My ds has decided, and we've sent in the deposit, but there is still uncertainty because he was wait-listed at a bunch of schools. I think he decided to stay on the wait lists for 3 colleges, but even if he gets in to one he can't necessarily go there. He got fantastic need + merit based financial aid at the college that he accepted, and if he gets in off of a wait list, we'll have to evaluate the financial position. I wish there weren't this uncertainty so that he could just set his head on where he is going.

Thanks for all the encouragement for my ds! It's possible that he could transfer, but I'm really hoping that he likes Dickinson. So glad to hear about others good experiences there! He's been looking forward to going to college for a long time, and I hope he not only learns a lot, but has a good time.

Thanks. We're regrouping and working on a positive outlook. I think he has to assume he will not get in off of any waitlists. And I think Dickinson looks like a really good option. It might not have been his first choice, but I think it will be a good match for him.

DS is accepted at Dickinson College with merit scholarship. He hasn't visited yet, so we're considering going down there in April. He's sadly rejected at two of his top three choices and waitlisted at the other one.

Congratulations to you! :hurray: DS is pretty burned out. He had some issues earlier this year, which affected his grades and presumably his college admissions. He does have some acceptances in hand, but he's gotten several rejections and waitlists. Right now his 3 acceptances are from the 3 on the bottom of his list. OTOH, he's got 3 acceptances. And financial aid from one is fantastic. So it could be much worse. It's really hard for me to see his pain on each rejection.

I currently have 10th and 12th graders who both attend the local public high school part time. We're lucky in that the public school has been very helpful. My dc have participated in sports and other extracurriculars. The school has mostly let us choose what classes to put dc in. Like oldest was (and is) a big history person, so we put him in AP European history in 9th grade. The guidance counselor wasn't thrilled about that, but when ds did well and won an award for outstanding student in the class, guidance has since pretty much let us choose where to put dc. We've chosen to have them do classes at school that are difficult for us to replicate at home (like band), and classes which we are less comfortable teaching (Spanish, history, English). On the plus side, this is a small high school. Their AP classes are usually small. Older ds's AP US history had 9 students, currently younger ds's AP US history has (I think) 14 students. This means that the AP classes virtually never fill up. On the minus side, since it is a small school there is generally only 1 section of everything, and not all APs are offered. This year older ds had to choose between AP English literature and band, he couldn't do both since they were scheduled at the same time. The highest math the school offers in AB calculus. Academically it has worked out ok, not necessarily great. With the AP classes you pretty much know what they are going to cover in advance. Some of the non-AP classes have been less than stellar, but I think it's worked out fine. This year, for the first time ever, older ds is doing both math (AP statistics) and science (AP biology) at school. This experience has made him super grateful for the math/science that he has done at home. The hardest part has been scheduling everything since the high school uses a rotating daily schedule. Older ds has been taking history classes at a local liberal arts college for two years, and making that work with the high school schedule has been a challenge. Socially it's also been a bit of a mixed bag. Younger ds especially has enjoyed having more time with his friends. On days when he could come home mid-morning, he generally stays and has lunch at school with friends. Since it is a small school, it's often the same small group of kids in many of the AP classes. I will say that even though younger ds enjoys hanging with his friends, he is adamant that he wants to be homeschooled for math and science next year. It gets harder - like older ds was mostly taking classes with older kids. This year as a senior, he's back with his same-age peers. He's *really* ready to be out of high school. I'm guessing the same thing will happen with younger ds.