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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op - wondering whether you are in B’more by chance?  Anyway, my DS also did not perform well enough to test out of algebra 1. We’ve requested a retest and have 6 hrs of tutoring lined up during the next few weeks. School is letting us take the test after close of this school year.  If DS already took Alg 1, it’s definitely worth having him try to test out. [/quote]

OP here. Yes! We are in Baltimore too. Is your son going to Calvert Hall? My DS did take Algebra 1 this year but he didn’t knock it out of the park so it didn’t totally surprise me that he didn’t test out. I thought I read that the retests were soon but maybe not. His scores were not close enough to the passing score for me to subject him to more work. We are both exhausted from tons of homework in middle school. He did use the study guide to prepare but he said there were things on it they’d hadn’t covered this year. I am fine with him taking it again next year but the over the top reactions from other parents made me wonder if I was missing something. I found out he can take geometry in the summer so that’s good. [/quote]

There are so many colleges out there, and most are dying for students. I think that your son should just take the kinds of college prep classes that seem to
suit him and then look for colleges that like him, instead of trying to jam himself into a college that obsesses about this sort of thing.

This might be a sign that he’s not a natural fit for being a nuclear physicist. But I suspect that isn’t his idea of a great career path, anyway. [/quote]

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