WWYD.......Where would u go ..school related updated 12/12 page 10

[joviroxx]

High school in 1 year.. that's certainly remarkable...

 

[tar heel]

Community college? I'm guessing you didn't home school her through advanced calculus and science in one year. Good luck to your daughter.

 

[KennesawNemo]

As a college professor who has taught three "child prodigies" (we had a student graduate from our institution at 14, one at 15, and another just left at age 13), I would urge you to reconsider. All three of the students I've taught have essentially crashed and burned in college. The last one (just last semester) is now doing nothing because he failed out of my institution and is too young (at 13) to work but has his high school diploma so he can't go back to high school

I know that colleges accept these students for the media attention they receive, but as a mother myself I think it's horrendous that we put children in these situations. There are many, many better ways to engage their minds than by sending them to college as young adolescents.

I came from China. Couple top universities there used to have programs for child prodigies in the 80s and 90s. They recruited nation wide each year for kids as young as 12 or 13 and put all these kids in one class.

All programs are suspended now, due to similar reason you mentioned above. You could still apply at a young age, but there won't be a program there.

That being said, I personally know more than one person who went to those programs and are successful today and living a happy life. Maybe OP's daughter will be one of those people. I think only OP and her daughter knows best.

 

[sookie]

Oh dear. Too many plot holes in this story.

How did she get through 4 years of high school in 1 year again? What is her major going to be? "Pre-med" isn't a major.

 

[zoemurr]

How did she get through 4 years of high school in 1 year again? What is her major going to be? "Pre-med" isn't a major.

I hope the OP will explain some more. I would genuinely like to know the answers as well. I don't think she told us where DD was going.

Did she ace the SAT?

We all really want to know how she got through Geometry-Calc and Chem and Physics, not to mention all the other classes that would be required in one year. Or if we are missing something can you set us straight?

 

[Anastasi]

High school in 1 year.. that's certainly remarkable...

Not even a year. More like 1 semester.

After reading the whole thread, it seems that as of 1/26/13, the OP's daughter was still in 8th grade. They had not moved yet. The daughter was going to sit in classes in her new school over the winter break. (Late winter break if it is already in February.) OP still needed to meet with admin to work out the plan for 4 years.

So, that would only leave a few months left in the previous school year for the daughter to adjust and take classes before summer break.

Fast forward to now. It is only December and the first semester of high schools across the country are coming to an end.

So, the daughter went from 8th grade to graduating high school in one semester and a few extra weeks from the end of the previous year.

 

[zoemurr]

Not even a year. More like 1 semester.

After reading the whole thread, it seems that as of 1/26/13, the OP's daughter was still in 8th grade. They had not moved yet. The daughter was going to sit in classes in her new school over the winter break. (Late winter break if it is already in February.) OP still needed to meet with admin to work out the plan for 4 years.

So, that would only leave a few months left in the previous school year for the daughter to adjust and take classes before summer break.

Fast forward to now. It is only December and the first semester of high schools across the country are coming to an end.

So, the daughter went from 8th grade to graduating high school in one semester and a few extra weeks from the end of the previous year.

In 09/2013 she said they were homeschooling. One year of math a month maybe?

 

[NHdisneylover]

I admit there are many oddities in this story, especially early on (even a small school without many resources ought to be able to offer more than algebra and french I to a truly gifted 8th grader, for example), there is at least one college program aimed at teen girls that allows the girls to SKIP (not complete, nor ever graduate) highschool, works with them to fill in the blanks for missed material (such as math) and has a specific dorm life structure set up to help with social issues.

http://www.mbc.edu/early_college/peg/

It is certainly possible that the OPs daughter really is that bright and attending a similar program now. There is no IQ test for admission and you have to have had consistently good grades and be able to score as high as a typical incoming freshman at the university on the SAT or ACT. That is really something that a large number of kids who are staying in highschool could easily do. I think the only class requirement is to have had geometry before starting. You can be accepted and then take an online course if needed (and, yes, it is actually pretty easy to work through a full highschool year of math online in a month or so if the math makes sense to you, so that is somewhat realistic).

There used to be a poster on the DIS who graduated from the program. She loved it and felt it helped her socially because she was with peers and no longer taunted daily and withdrawn as she had been in public school. I can see the benefit being there for someone in a really bad situation otherwise. On the other hand, that poster (who was super sweet) was as naive in the real world as you might expect and OP I think your DD will need a lot more than just good grades and impressive degrees to be able to succeed and be emotionally well adjusted as an adult.

 

[Peachkins]

Count me among those who are having a really difficult time believing that the OP's daughter leapt from some fairly standard 8th/9th grade classes and into college within a year. That just doesn't make sense. If she had already been taking upper-level high school classes in middle school, I could understand it more.

 

[okeydokey]

I recently ran into my son's 7th grade gifted teacher. My son is now in 8th. He asked how he was doing and said that my son could be going to college soon.

I told him we had no interest in that. There is too much "good stuff" between now and then that he wants to experience. He is in the middle school band and looking forward to marching and playing with the HS. He enjoys brain bowl and his D & D group. I want him to have all that.

It is totally possible to have an AA degree by the time kids graduate high school these days with dual enrollment and AP classes.

 

[EMAW_KSU]

she will be 21 when she finishes med school if she takes the normal path

If the path is like the 6 months it took for high school it will be much younger than that.

 

[kellyg403]

Ok, I will admit I know nothing about college needs except for what I learned through kids going to school.

But, I seem to recall that those academic scholarships were hard to come by and that was with students achieving the highest levels in AP/honors math.

My dd is in Nursing school, first semester, and that was a hard to get into because of the grades/ requirements needed to be accepted into the program. So, OP, my question is how far in the math and sciences was your daughter able to complete? Or is this in a dual enrollment, high school 1/2 day and then community collage 1/2 to take those courses not offered at high school level. I am confused as I know that our school offered that, but iirc there were set classes they could take.

Just curious how things work in other places!

Kelly

 

[msjprincess]

she will be 21 when she finishes med school if she takes the normal path

So, she finished 4 years of high school in less than a year but you expect her to take the usual amount of time to finish college and medical school?

How odd.

 

[NHTikiBeckie]

 

[worm761]

Ok, I will admit I know nothing about college needs except for what I learned through kids going to school.

But, I seem to recall that those academic scholarships were hard to come by and that was with students achieving the highest levels in AP/honors math.

My dd is in Nursing school, first semester, and that was a hard to get into because of the grades/ requirements needed to be accepted into the program. So, OP, my question is how far in the math and sciences was your daughter able to complete? Or is this in a dual enrollment, high school 1/2 day and then community collage 1/2 to take those courses not offered at high school level. I am confused as I know that our school offered that, but iirc there were set classes they could take.

Just curious how things work in other places!

Kelly

I am not the OP. But my nephew graduated high school with an associates degree from the local state college doing the dual enrollment at his high school. I don't know what classes he took or anything but I do know that they transferred to the 4 year school he moved on to.

 

[Glynis]

AP art?

Yes. It's no laughing matter! My daughter is taking the class now, and it is HARD! It's taking up most of her free time. That with the AP World History class she's taking leaves almost no leisure time, at all.

 

[DawnM]

I am not quite following this.

Your daughter went to private Elem. school and no one suggested she move forward then?

So, she was in her regular age appropriate class until 7th grade???

That doesn't make sense.

 

[kellyg403]

I am not the OP. But my nephew graduated high school with an associates degree from the local state college doing the dual enrollment at his high school. I don't know what classes he took or anything but I do know that they transferred to the 4 year school he moved on to.

Yes, some of my dc friends also have gone this route. As you finish the level in high school you can take the next level in the community college and the classes and books are at a reduced fee.

Its a great way to go!

Kelly

 

[barkley]

Yes, some of my dc friends also have gone this route. As you finish the level in high school you can take the next level in the community college and the classes and books are at a reduced fee.

Its a great way to go!

Kelly

up here the program of this type is awesome. starting in junior year a student can start their freshman year of college tuition free (pay fees of a few hundred a year and books only).

the student is still enrolled at their high school but attending a local college or university (transportation is provided on your own). about the only class they have to deal with at the high school is the one in senior year for the required senior project (and most do this independent study). as far as taking advanced classes, the kids are held to the same standard as any new college student (so depending on where they test out on the English and math entrance exams they may start out in coursework several years higher than their high school counterparts).

you figure with ap test fees running around $90 a class, a kid enrolled in this type of program can earn many more college units at a much lower cost going this route.

 

[monkeybug]

up here the program of this type is awesome. starting in junior year a student can start their freshman year of college tuition free (pay fees of a few hundred a year and books only).

the student is still enrolled at their high school but attending a local college or university (transportation is provided on your own). about the only class they have to deal with at the high school is the one in senior year for the required senior project (and most do this independent study). as far as taking advanced classes, the kids are held to the same standard as any new college student (so depending on where they test out on the English and math entrance exams they may start out in coursework several years higher than their high school counterparts).

you figure with ap test fees running around $90 a class, a kid enrolled in this type of program can earn many more college units at a much lower cost going this route.

I did this in high school, but at that time it was only offered during senior year. I did not attend the high school campus at all my senior year, all of my classes were on the college campus. They even paid for most of my books! It was a great way to knock out that first year for free!
Admittance at my school was not just for gifted kids, we did not take tests to get in, and some of the kids had never taken an AP class. I'm not sure what criteria they used to decide who got in, I just remember filling out an application and doing a few interviews. I did have to take entrance exams, but that was after I'd been accepted.