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My head *hurts* as I try to ferret out options for 9th grade dd. This is so incredibly overwhelming! How on *earth* does one figure out the best way to go??? Certain options better benefit overall GPA (important in our state when even homeschooled students can be "ranked" depending upon what option you're under), certain options look more attractive to colleges/universities (important if you have hopes of scholarships coupled with the fact that admission to college is more difficult these days), and certain options may simply leave said student better equipped. Oh. my. word. Please someone tell me we will survive this incredible maze!!!!:willy_nilly::svengo:

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You will survive! I promise!

 

High school looks so overwhelming, but just take it one year at a time!

 

Keep on researching...

Keep on talking to people who have been there and done that...

Keep on talking with your child about his plans and goals...

Keep on asking questions...

Keep on praying....

 

As an encouragement, I had NO idea what I was doing when my oldest entered 9th grade....and with God's help and a lot of research and a lot of input from my daughter on where she wanted to end up, we did figure things out. It was a definite "flying by the seat of our pants" operation with lots of mid-course corrections, but it worked!

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I'm not going to stress out over this...I'm not going to stress out over this...repeat after me :-)...Actually, I was thinking that when I was in 9th grade, I was in junior high school, not high school. My son will be in 9th grade next year; I'm sure that we'll do just fine with "regular" courses (no AP, no "honors"). I heard a woman speak at our convention--her son got a $100 scholarship (ok, so it would buy a book) to college for being first in his class (and she had him listed as "1 of 1"...we'll survive.

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My son tests badly because he is a slow worker and does things like flip 5's and 2's and can forget his own name between one day and the next, so this meant that ACTs, SAT2s, and APs weren't a good idea. That left us with CC classes.

 

What is your CC like? Is it a nice one with a good selection of courses that transfer to your state Us? Is it too expensive? Is it too far to commute to? Are you worried about who your child will be exposed to? Any of those things might eliminate dual enrollment as an option.

 

How does your child test? Badly? Then APs aren't a good option.

 

Can your child manage to get herself through an AP class by herself? It requires a lot of self-discipline. CAn you help her? Can you afford the tuition for an online class?

 

Anyway, you get the idea. Most people are working within some sort of constraints that eliminate a bunch of the choices and make the whole thing easier.

 

HTH

-Nan

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