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

[Mkrop]

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.

I had friends who took AP Art back in the 80s and it was an extremely hard intense class. They were all quite talented too.

 

[zoemurr]

Guess the OP stirred the pot and left..

 

[sugahjunior]

Guess the OP stirred the pot and left..

She'll be back in 6 months when Snowy comes up with some Nobel-worthy medical breakthrough after getting her M.D.

 

[LiveYourLife]

She'll be back in 6 months when Snowy comes up with some Nobel-worthy medical breakthrough after getting her M.D.

No, no, no....you've got it all wrong! The next post will be the backpedaling post that will come in six months. My money will be on: "college/med-school" was too hum-drum for the genius child, and she now is an actor-slash-singer-slash-dancer-slash-candlelight processional narrator"

 

[dis-happy]

I'm excerpting something I read in the NYT this morning. Maybe the OP is getting a bad rap on this thread; a program like this would fit with what she has posted.



Early College Admission
The ultimate form of radical acceleration is to let extremely gifted students enter college at a young age. The University of Washington has long allowed a select group of seventh and eighth graders, none older than 14, to skip high school entirely and enter a one-year “transition school” in which they live at home to ease the social adjustment while taking courses on campus taught by an experienced faculty. The courses include physics and precalculus along with English, history and ethics. In the following year, transition-school graduates become regular full-time students.

 

[barkley]

I'm excerpting something I read in the NYT this morning. Maybe the OP is getting a bad rap on this thread; a program like this would fit with what she has posted.



Early College Admission
The ultimate form of radical acceleration is to let extremely gifted students enter college at a young age. The University of Washington has long allowed a select group of seventh and eighth graders, none older than 14, to skip high school entirely and enter a one-year “transition school” in which they live at home to ease the social adjustment while taking courses on campus taught by an experienced faculty. The courses include physics and precalculus along with English, history and ethics. In the following year, transition-school graduates become regular full-time students.

if the student is truly gifted then it's not unusual for them to have skipped a few grades in school in which case so long as their school says they are the equivalent to an 11th grader they could skip the first year of the transition school program (where they earn no college credits) and start their freshman year at u.w. under our state's 'running start' program.

big advantage would be instead of paying 13,000 or so for tuition/fees each year they could attend for just the cost of fees (a few hundred a year).

 

[lauradis]

Just reading some of the post about what your district offers, would make me want to move.

I agree with testing act sat and iq test.

When you get the results back, find her weak spots in academics.

How I wish my mother was brilliant enough to push my weak spots, not to just my excelling areas.

Many gifted, higher iq, bright children have an academic weakness.

Finished all math offered in k-12 before I entered high school official, finished science before 10 grade, took remedial English k-12. Pass 3 levels of German but couldn't read or write it. Passed all six levels of public speaking, but teacher was nice enough to let me slide on the written part.

I would have never been excepted into my children's gift program in this district. I would have been allowed to excelled in math science and speaking but so would have IEP for English.

My advice would be to test and move even if she is just above avg.

 

[lauradis]

Darn zombie post got me again lol

I really have to remember to look at those pesky post dates

 

[Dr.Girlfriend]

OP here....just wanted to post an update for all of those whose responded to the thread especially the doubters of her abilities.

My daughter just recieved her college acceptance. She will be pre med major in the fall. The acceptance came with a hefty academic scholarship. She will be 13 when she goes.

Bless her heart, and good luck to her. I can't wait to see the info on The Today Show or Good Morning America - usually news outlets are alerted to such young college attendees. You must be very proud!

 

[TheIncredibles!]

It's been a really long time since we've had an update on Miley. *snicker*

 

[goofy!]

It's been a really long time since we've had an update on Miley. *snicker*

Miley was quite the precocious toddler, wasn't she? If I recall correctly, she was climbing stairs at 4 months. Wonder how her soon to be born siblings, boys maybe girls, turned out.

FWIW - Best thread on the DIS EVER!

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

Miley was quite the precocious toddler, wasn't she? If I recall correctly, she was climbing stairs at 4 months. Wonder how her soon to be born siblings, boys maybe girls, turned out. FWIW - Best thread on the DIS EVER!

You're killin' me smallz.....

That is my fave thread. How could I have missed this???

 

[TheIncredibles!]

You're killin' me smallz..... That is my fave thread. How could I have missed this???

Who could forget Miley???????? I am sure by now Miley has competed college, aced her MCAT's, completed Med School and is currently the Chief of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins. No need for any updates anymore.

 

[tar heel]

AP Art is definitely no laughing matter. According to my son, who took "hard" APs like Chemistry and Calculus, the hardest one at his school was AP Music Theory.