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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS high school teacher here. This is going to sound pretty harsh: if he is getting B's and an occasional C now in 9th grade it is going to be increasingly difficult to maintain a 3.7 weighted without dropping down to honors (instead of AP/IB). Also, I find the SAT score prediction suspect because B's and MSA scores aren't a particularly good indicator of successful outcome (and I've seen hundreds of scores and GPAs).
He's good in art, so what does HE want to do?[/quote]

Sorry, I meant that as he'll likely take English and Social Science through AP, but not Science, not that he's taking them now in 9th.  I am imagining him finishing high school with a couple of APs in Social Sciences and English (History, Government, since those are his strengths, but not the 10 or 12 APs I hear of some kids taking.  Right now he's in honors for Science, Social Studies, and English, but not for math, and too early for it for Spanish (he's in II, honors starts in III).  At this point, he's gotten 1 C (out of 28 grades) each year in middle school, in various subjects, and had one C (in math) second quarter of 9th.  Everything else has been an A (arts, PE, and some of his English/Social Studies classes) and B's (science, Spanish, math, and some English/Social Science).

The SAT scores are totally made up.  I am basing them totally on the fact that his scores tend to put him at or somewhat about the 50th %ile for his high school for Math, and slightly above for English, and somewhat higher than that for MCPS as a whole.   So I took the average total SAT for his school, and added the part about math being slightly lower than English.  It's a total guess.

As far as what he wants to do he's been interested in social science kinds of things for ever -- has talked about criminal justice, anthropology, political science, and history as things he'd like to study, and says he wants to work for the government.  He's expressed a lot of interest in law enforcement on a federal level -- Secret Service, FBI, Homeland Security? He's also expressed interested in jobs that involve international travel.  Of course he's also young, I know I changed my mind a million times before I settled on a career.

He likes the arts, but isn't interested in an arts career.  I think he's more interested in the camaraderie of being in the chorus and the stage crew than loving the art.    Same thing for sports, he likes being part of a team and being physically active, but wouldn't want to play at a college level, even if that turned out to be an option.   [/quote]

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