Private High School Parents - do your children get the classes they need for college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Self-study for the AP exam.

How will that help? AP exams are after colleges have made their decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How did your DD avoid taking physics? Usually everybody in private required to take it at some point.

LOL not true at all.

Not all privates are close to equal.

Religious ones are some of the least educated centers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did your DD avoid taking physics? Usually everybody in private required to take it at some point.

LOL not true at all.

Not all privates are close to equal.

Religious ones are some of the least educated centers.

Yeah, Sidwell and the Cathedral schools are just uneducated cesspools, amiright?

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately your daughter has had poor pre-college guidance, OP. It seems like finding an online class is her best option at this point.

Is this NCS? That’s the only school I’ve heard recent complaints about not having enough sections of core science classes for seniors to get the classes they want, and while I don’t know current graduation requirements, when I was there back in the Stone Age you could graduate with no physics.

[Anonymous]

At my kid's school, you get all the core classes you request during course registration in February. You then have the option to request changes in May and August, but it's not guaranteed. It's not the school's fault that your kid changed their mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately your daughter has had poor pre-college guidance, OP. It seems like finding an online class is her best option at this point.

Is this NCS? That’s the only school I’ve heard recent complaints about not having enough sections of core science classes for seniors to get the classes they want, and while I don’t know current graduation requirements, when I was there back in the Stone Age you could graduate with no physics.

Is this still a problem there (not enough room in science classes)? I thought they would have fixed this by now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You need a science class for a possible planned major? What major and what college?

My child needs physics for a nursing major - the school sequence was thrown off as they took AP Chem jr year on the advice of a classmate

This does t sound like a problem
With the school if your child took a different class Jr year than the required one by college and then still didn’t register for the right one during original registration -

[Anonymous]

If your kid wants to take physics and they can't find a spot for her, that school sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately your daughter has had poor pre-college guidance, OP. It seems like finding an online class is her best option at this point.

Is this NCS? That’s the only school I’ve heard recent complaints about not having enough sections of core science classes for seniors to get the classes they want, and while I don’t know current graduation requirements, when I was there back in the Stone Age you could graduate with no physics.

Is this still a problem there (not enough room in science classes)? I thought they would have fixed this by now.

I would have thought so too, it’s just the only school I’ve heard of that had trouble getting juniors/seniors into basic science classes.

It’s also fairly shocking that no one advised her to sign up for physics though - even aside from the nursing program, most schools recommend one each of bio, chem, and physics even if they aren’t actually required for graduation, so the fact that no one queried her senior year science choice is odd.

[Anonymous]

Has never been a problem for DC and I would be upset if it was for physics- a core science class. (I could understand if they couldn’t offer an AP course.)
In our school - one of those terrible religious schools- counselors typically recommend physics as a junior for any science majors. I assume DC signed up for a different science class and for some reason was going to forgo physics altogether. This is on counselors and also parents. If your kid wants anything science based, of course, you take at minimum, an introduction to all three science courses (biology, chemistry, physics).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How did your DD avoid taking physics? Usually everybody in private required to take it at some point.

LOL not true at all.

Not all privates are close to equal.

Religious ones are some of the least educated centers.

Not quite.

My daughter’s Catholic high school offers more APs than the public school where I work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Physics is required in my kids' high school and everyone takes it the same year. It's impossible not to take it.

+1

[Anonymous]

Could you identify what school doesn’t require physics? What were her 4 years of science then? Is this actually an issue of not taking calculus-based physics (it seems that many of the girls schools have physics freshmen year so not physics-c - is that the issue?). Asking bc my freshmen daughter in physics would not necessarily take calculus-based physics her senior year (she would probably take an adv chem or bio class) and wondering if it is necessary for some college science tracks. Thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately your daughter has had poor pre-college guidance, OP. It seems like finding an online class is her best option at this point.

Is this NCS? That’s the only school I’ve heard recent complaints about not having enough sections of core science classes for seniors to get the classes they want, and while I don’t know current graduation requirements, when I was there back in the Stone Age you could graduate with no physics.

PP again. I was curious so I looked up the requirements for NCS and they do require physics. In fact it’s the only one they require, although they recommend all three: “ To meet the science requirement for graduation, students must take two full-year courses, one of which must be a year of physics. The department recommends that students take a full year of physics, chemistry, and biology.”

So OP’s DD is not at NCS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately your daughter has had poor pre-college guidance, OP. It seems like finding an online class is her best option at this point.

Is this NCS? That’s the only school I’ve heard recent complaints about not having enough sections of core science classes for seniors to get the classes they want, and while I don’t know current graduation requirements, when I was there back in the Stone Age you could graduate with no physics.

PP again. I was curious so I looked up the requirements for NCS and they do require physics. In fact it’s the only one they require, although they recommend all three: “ To meet the science requirement for graduation, students must take two full-year courses, one of which must be a year of physics. The department recommends that students take a full year of physics, chemistry, and biology.”

So OP’s DD is not at NCS.

SJC has an issue this year with a wait list of at least 10 kids wanting to get into AP Physics. Students are being told by counselor to enroll in on-line programs