Heather in VA
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Oh, and without a financial package and still no complete scholarship picture, we have two schools demanding we register for orientation!!!
I will never understand this. How can they expect anyone to commit to something without knowing the financial picture? One of our most prominent state schools has binding early decision. If you are accepted you have 10 days to put in your deposit which is required because you applied early decision and they don't provide you financial information for months after that. People still do it.
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Are you looking for pre-algebra or is she ready for Algebra? I can't quite tell from the various conversations.
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How about Christian Light until you are ready for Algebra and then Fresh Approach. They are both 'to the point'
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Thanks for all the information about this program. Sounds like something I might like to try. I may actually try to do it with both my boys kind of as extra units in summer or throughout the year. They don't do much school together anymore, but this sounds like it might be good as an intro for my younger son and a review for my older son. I sounds like the program is divided into manageable chunks suitable for sporadic periods of study.
PM me if you decide to try it. I bought it and it's not going to work for my daughter. I didn't use it and I'm going to list it.
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I got the ScienceSaurus and the Daybook. I figure I can order the teacher's guide later if I decide I really need it. The only thing that's necessary is the daybook. The ScienceSaurus just contains more information about the topics in the daybook. It's basically just a science encyclopedia, and we have about 30,000 of those around here, but I know my son, and he will more readily use an encyclopedia that is made to go with the daybooks than he will some random encyclopedia. I think I paid about $8 for the ScienceSaurus used on Amazon. :thumbup:
Btw, if you go to the Houghton Mifflin site, you can sign up for a free sample that will let you read the entire ScienceSaurus online.
Wonderful! Thanks. I do the same thing with teacher's guides - I usually wait. We have about 30,000 science encyclopedias too but my daughter is the same. I'll check amazon!!
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I like that they have the kids reading nonfiction articles and making notes on them. My ds needs practice pulling information from nonfiction sources and organizing it coherently.
It does not look like it is a complete curriculum, but I think I could make it the centerpiece of a curriculum and round it out with videos and hands-on activities.
Did you order the ScienceSaurus book and the Teacher's guide too or just the Daybook? I can't figure out what is necessary.
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Is it possible this just might be an acceptance??? The mail just had to be delivered after my son went to work until 8 PM, and I'm going crazy. The waiting is torture!
Nancy in NH
If it's not then that's just cruel.
Congrats!!
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Not quite what I was thinking of....I was thinking of the whole dorm think.
As an aside is your college student supporting herself?
Actually this is what most of the kids we know experience. They live in the dorm the first year and then move off campus which requires a lease, their own food etc.
No - she isn't fully financially independent. She does pay for some things with her wages. We provide money for other things. She's responsible for making sure the bills get paid regardless of where the money comes from.
We pay the tuition directly. Between tracking her scholarships and money from college savings accounts it's easier to do that ourselves.
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I think the whole college experience is just so weird anyway. I know most don't agree with me.....but I dont see how living on top of your age peers where often times a lot of partying is going on, prepares you for real life. A job. Paying bills.
Shrug. That is just as weird to me as it is to send my 5 year old off to be schooled by a stranger 30 hours a week.
Well my college student lives in a house with other girls her age. She pays her own rent, buys her own groceries, cooks her own food, deals with car maintenance, gets herself to class, gets herself to clinicals, gets herself to work, cleans her house, pays her utilities...... that sounds like real life to me.
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I don't know. I'm an extreme introvert, and I found that living on campus made a big difference to my ability to become socially integrated. It takes me a long time to get to know people. Having a guarantee of interacting with the same people every day is probably the surest way to have it happen - the people I lived in residence, or in off-campus housing with, are still some of my closest friends.
Living at home pretty much sucked. If I had been bold enough to ask people I didn't know well for late night rides or to crash it might have been better, but it was just often much harder to stay around for events and such - finding a ride, finding two meals instead of one, only having public spaces to crash while I waited for whatever to go on.
This is how I think my daughter is as well. It takes her a long time to know people too. She would never ask someone for a place to crash, a ride, to eat lunch with her, to hang out and do something etc. If it happens organically because of time spent, then she's good. She's been a competitive gymnast since she was 6 so the large amount of time she spent with girls gave her the time to develop relationships and have a natural progression into time together outside of the gym. I think college would be similar. Living on campus would provide a similar environment to develop relationships without having to be bold about it.
Lori D - I do appreciate your comments. It is something to consider and make sure she has the environment she needs. It's yet to be determined if this will even be an issue. She has several schools that would require her to live on campus as they are hours away so it might not even become a question but I will definitely keep your feedback in mind.
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My daughter is considering this for one of the schools she's looking at but I'm against it. Her commute would be difficult because the traffic in this area is horrendous. But more than that, I want her to go and have the college experience. She's a serious introvert and I think being a commuter student would allow her to opt out of having to participate in social situations or make friends. She is considering the school because of a program they offer but I think she is weighing it more heavily because she could live at home. I told her if she goes there I want her in the dorm. She isn't afraid to leave home at all. She just wants to live alone. I think she needs to experience the college living.
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FaithManor - could you update my daughter's acceptance please? The school is 'West Virginia University' not West Virginia State University
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YIPPEE!!! I can so relate to the 'I didn't screw up her life' feeling.
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I am writing the counselor rec. It may be flawed in coming from me, but there is no one else who can address the way my son responded to his academic setting.
He has recs from two outside teachers. He also had two recs from scout leaders from courses he staffed.
Well you have other recommendations so that's good too. And I'm sure there are some schools who are fine with mom recommendations. It's just that the schools I've dealt with who want recommendations both with my oldest who is now in college and now with my 2nd daughter want one from someone other than the mother.
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All of my daughter's school choices have housing shortages so we will be doing multiple housing deposits. They are only $250 and refundable as long as you tell them before May 1 which is the national 'you have to tell the school you are coming' day anyway. I figure we need to make sure she gets housing and we get the money back so why not.
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Oops - apparently I was supposed to post here, not on the other list.
My daughter got her first acceptance - West Virginia University with invitation to the Honors College (scholarships to follow)
Big relief for me. As a forensic science major she only has a few choices and when we made the decision to let her graduate a year early I started having panic attacks that she'd be turned down for being young and I ruined her for life LOL
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Are you finding your colleges want a letter of recommendation from you? So far those I've had talked to want me to fill out the counselor section but not with a recommendation and get someone else to write a letter of recommendation. In my daughter's case it will be her gymnastics coach since she's been a competitive gymnast for 11 years.
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My dd's first acceptance
West Virginia University - with scholarships and invitation to Honors college
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Greta - I should also add that they have been very supportive of us as homeschoolers. They didn't have a problem with it at all and have answered all of my questions. Like I said, we haven't dealt with the fine arts program but everyone we have dealt with has been terrific. We will be doing the application soon so hopefully they are just as nice then :-).
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VCU is one my of my daughter's top choices and we visited there a few months ago. I was wondering how I would feel about Richmond. I was pleasantly surprised. They have an extensive security program right down to a program where a student can call for a ride any time from dusk to the next morning even if they just don't feel like walking. Just like anywhere else kids need to be smart about not going anywhere alone at 2am but I feel completely fine with my daughter going there. I really liked the campus. Also they have a very good honors program that includes their own internship opportunities, their own advisors and the first right for class scheduling, even before seniors. My daughter loved that the major of the dorms, including the honors dorms were singles with your own bathroom :-)
I don't know how the honors program works with Fine Arts. I know they have a different type of program. We know a few kids who are at VCU right now and they love it.
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I would consider a business degree in addition to the culinary training. She may want to have her own business some day and it would be very helpful to have that kind of training.
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Others can give recommendations but I do want to point out that if you like the auto grading etc of Teaching Textbooks you won't be getting that with Pre-calculus. They don't have an automatic grading version of Pre-Calc.
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I thought Night was interesting for lit. But apparently it's one of those that gets used in some schools. ??? I was a little iffy after seeing the list with Stop the Sun and reading a quick summary of it. Then I read the whole short story and that wasn't so bad especially with as much NCIS and Blue Bloods, and Quantum Leap as we watch in our house.... but I was worried from descriptions of the short story that it would be iffy.. but then read the short story this morning and think "I'm not worried now."
Yes - our public schools use Night in the 8th grade.
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Thanks everyone for the feedback.. Special thanks to cbollin for the great recap. I didn't realize the samples were up so I'm going through those now. I have a 7th grader so it seems right on the edge. Night is an excellent book and would work really well for us this year since we are doing Modern. It is dark obviously but I don't remember anything over-the-top graphic considering the subject matter. That said it's an interesting choice for a literature analysis program.
Decisions, Decisions....
UPDATE! WE HAVE A WINNER! UPDATE at end Is there a math for good math students but is not reading intensive?
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Pre-Algebra is always a tough one. What is it about Horizons that bores her? The repetition? I haven't used it so I don't know how it's set up really. I'm trying to think of other pre-algebra books you could look at...
College of the Redwoods Pre-Algebra
Lial's
Did you take a look at Fresh Approach Algebra 1? It's very uncluttered which I see you mentioned as a plus. You could see if she's ready for it. I think it does some pre-algebra stuff at the beginning. I haven't used it yet but I've looked at it and plan to for my daughter who needs straightforward and uncluttered.
VideoText Module A has a lot of good pre-algebra concepts that help solidify everything before Algebra.
I'll let you know if I think of more