School test scores… like ’em or not, they’re out for the 2009/2010 year

[an]

[quote=flu]My personal opinion. I think these scores are over emphasized. Does it really matter if a school is scoring 900 versus 950 versus 999.. I doubt it. There’s a margin of error, that that margin is your kids ability…If one’s kid is an idiot anyway , does it matter really how well the rest of the school scores? Probably not…On the other side, if your kid is smart, sending them to a dumbed-down school probably makes the kid feel great, and probably would give him/her more confidence anyway since everyone else would be a relative moron….I think more importantly, just make sure you don’t send your kids to a school with exposure to seedy characters. If your kid’s school has a lot of gangsters or teens that are pregnant, it’s probably an indication to look elsewhere…

However, if your kid is asian (or have an asian last name), you’re screwed wherever you send your kid to anyway, since I’m sure when it comes to admissions, your ranked and filed with the other folks that marked the “ethnicity=asian” checkbox on the application. As a backup strategy, prior to entering high school, change your kid’s last name to something like generic “Smith” or “Walker” and make sure they decline to answer the ethnicity question…This especially applies to families for which the Ms. married Mr. that is asian with but who’s kids otherwise don’t look asian. Trust me…Don’t use your hubby’s last name on the college applications for your kids…especially, if the kid is applying to engineering or pre-med. ( I’m debating whether I’m going to attempt this nice social experiment wrto college admissions process, and get some airtime on 20/20 or dateline…)[/quote]
I totally with this. Although it’s better now without affirmative action, it’s still not perfect. Lucky I have a non-asian looking last name.

I’ve seen kids graduating from MMHS going to ivy league schools and I also know a daughter of a CEO who went to TPHS who can’t even get into UCSD. She end up having to go to CSU San Marcos. I guess SDSU rejected her too. So school test scores should have a big YMMV after it.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=AN]I’ve seen kids graduating from MMHS going to ivy league schools and I also know a daughter of a CEO who went to TPHS who can’t even get into UCSD. She end up having to go to CSU San Marcos. I guess SDSU rejected her too. So school test scores should have a big YMMV after it.[/quote]

Absolutely true, AN. I’ve known kids like that, too. You would be surprised how many kids from ALL Sweetwater and ALL SD high schools have multiple-choice offers from not only “ivy-league” schools but USC and multiple UC campuses.

All CA public high schools MUST teach to the same standards. It’s up to the student to avail themselves of everything that’s offered to them in HS and to excel to their highest ability in A-G subjects, as well as prepare properly for the SAT exam before taking it. This applies to the kid attending Crawford HS from his/her grandparent’s back bedroom or LR futon and the kid living in a single-wide trailer in the middle of a lettuce field in Stanislaus Co. the same as it does for the kid living in their parent’s “granny flat” next to their backyard pool in LJ.

Admissions officers in CA public colleges are far more interested in HS performance than personal circumstances of the student.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=AN]I’ve seen kids graduating from MMHS going to ivy league schools and I also know a daughter of a CEO who went to TPHS who can’t even get into UCSD. She end up having to go to CSU San Marcos. I guess SDSU rejected her too. So school test scores should have a big YMMV after it.[/quote]

Absolutely true, AN. I’ve known kids like that, too. You would be surprised how many kids from ALL Sweetwater and ALL SD high schools have multiple-choice offers from not only “ivy-league” schools but USC and multiple UC campuses.

All CA public high schools MUST teach to the same standards. It’s up to the student to avail themselves of everything that’s offered to them in HS and to excel to their highest ability in A-G subjects, as well as prepare properly for the SAT exam before taking it. This applies to the kid attending Crawford HS from his/her grandparent’s back bedroom or LR futon and the kid living in a single-wide trailer in the middle of a lettuce field in Stanislaus Co. the same as it does for the kid living in their parent’s “granny flat” next to their backyard pool in LJ.

Admissions officers in CA public colleges are far more interested in HS performance than personal circumstances of the student.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=AN]I’ve seen kids graduating from MMHS going to ivy league schools and I also know a daughter of a CEO who went to TPHS who can’t even get into UCSD. She end up having to go to CSU San Marcos. I guess SDSU rejected her too. So school test scores should have a big YMMV after it.[/quote]

Absolutely true, AN. I’ve known kids like that, too. You would be surprised how many kids from ALL Sweetwater and ALL SD high schools have multiple-choice offers from not only “ivy-league” schools but USC and multiple UC campuses.

All CA public high schools MUST teach to the same standards. It’s up to the student to avail themselves of everything that’s offered to them in HS and to excel to their highest ability in A-G subjects, as well as prepare properly for the SAT exam before taking it. This applies to the kid attending Crawford HS from his/her grandparent’s back bedroom or LR futon and the kid living in a single-wide trailer in the middle of a lettuce field in Stanislaus Co. the same as it does for the kid living in their parent’s “granny flat” next to their backyard pool in LJ.

Admissions officers in CA public colleges are far more interested in HS performance than personal circumstances of the student.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=AN]I’ve seen kids graduating from MMHS going to ivy league schools and I also know a daughter of a CEO who went to TPHS who can’t even get into UCSD. She end up having to go to CSU San Marcos. I guess SDSU rejected her too. So school test scores should have a big YMMV after it.[/quote]

Absolutely true, AN. I’ve known kids like that, too. You would be surprised how many kids from ALL Sweetwater and ALL SD high schools have multiple-choice offers from not only “ivy-league” schools but USC and multiple UC campuses.

All CA public high schools MUST teach to the same standards. It’s up to the student to avail themselves of everything that’s offered to them in HS and to excel to their highest ability in A-G subjects, as well as prepare properly for the SAT exam before taking it. This applies to the kid attending Crawford HS from his/her grandparent’s back bedroom or LR futon and the kid living in a single-wide trailer in the middle of a lettuce field in Stanislaus Co. the same as it does for the kid living in their parent’s “granny flat” next to their backyard pool in LJ.

Admissions officers in CA public colleges are far more interested in HS performance than personal circumstances of the student.

[bearishgurl]

[quote=AN]I’ve seen kids graduating from MMHS going to ivy league schools and I also know a daughter of a CEO who went to TPHS who can’t even get into UCSD. She end up having to go to CSU San Marcos. I guess SDSU rejected her too. So school test scores should have a big YMMV after it.[/quote]

Absolutely true, AN. I’ve known kids like that, too. You would be surprised how many kids from ALL Sweetwater and ALL SD high schools have multiple-choice offers from not only “ivy-league” schools but USC and multiple UC campuses.

All CA public high schools MUST teach to the same standards. It’s up to the student to avail themselves of everything that’s offered to them in HS and to excel to their highest ability in A-G subjects, as well as prepare properly for the SAT exam before taking it. This applies to the kid attending Crawford HS from his/her grandparent’s back bedroom or LR futon and the kid living in a single-wide trailer in the middle of a lettuce field in Stanislaus Co. the same as it does for the kid living in their parent’s “granny flat” next to their backyard pool in LJ.

Admissions officers in CA public colleges are far more interested in HS performance than personal circumstances of the student.

[davelj]

I have some friends who have a son that was a very mediocre high school student (with marginal test scores). He went to one of the local community colleges for two years, did reasonably well (mostly A’s and B’s), applied to UCSD and was accepted, with credits transferred, without incident. I think it only took him two years to graduate from UCSD. If this kid is any indication, going the community college route is both cheaper and easier. It seems a hell of a lot easier than applying with every kid that wants into the system straight out of high school.

http://uctransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html

[davelj]

I have some friends who have a son that was a very mediocre high school student (with marginal test scores). He went to one of the local community colleges for two years, did reasonably well (mostly A’s and B’s), applied to UCSD and was accepted, with credits transferred, without incident. I think it only took him two years to graduate from UCSD. If this kid is any indication, going the community college route is both cheaper and easier. It seems a hell of a lot easier than applying with every kid that wants into the system straight out of high school.

http://uctransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html

[davelj]

I have some friends who have a son that was a very mediocre high school student (with marginal test scores). He went to one of the local community colleges for two years, did reasonably well (mostly A’s and B’s), applied to UCSD and was accepted, with credits transferred, without incident. I think it only took him two years to graduate from UCSD. If this kid is any indication, going the community college route is both cheaper and easier. It seems a hell of a lot easier than applying with every kid that wants into the system straight out of high school.

http://uctransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html

[davelj]

I have some friends who have a son that was a very mediocre high school student (with marginal test scores). He went to one of the local community colleges for two years, did reasonably well (mostly A’s and B’s), applied to UCSD and was accepted, with credits transferred, without incident. I think it only took him two years to graduate from UCSD. If this kid is any indication, going the community college route is both cheaper and easier. It seems a hell of a lot easier than applying with every kid that wants into the system straight out of high school.

http://uctransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html

[davelj]

I have some friends who have a son that was a very mediocre high school student (with marginal test scores). He went to one of the local community colleges for two years, did reasonably well (mostly A’s and B’s), applied to UCSD and was accepted, with credits transferred, without incident. I think it only took him two years to graduate from UCSD. If this kid is any indication, going the community college route is both cheaper and easier. It seems a hell of a lot easier than applying with every kid that wants into the system straight out of high school.

http://uctransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html

[an]

[quote=davelj]I have some friends who have a son that was a very mediocre high school student (with marginal test scores). He went to one of the local community colleges for two years, did reasonably well (mostly A’s and B’s), applied to UCSD and was accepted, with credits transferred, without incident. I think it only took him two years to graduate from UCSD. If this kid is any indication, going the community college route is both cheaper and easier. It seems a hell of a lot easier than applying with every kid that wants into the system straight out of high school.

http://uctransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html%5B/quote%5D
It’s not normal to be able to graduate in 4 years if you transfer from JC. If you want to speed things up, you can take JC classes while you’re in HS, during summer and at night to clear out all of your GEs. Then go to a UC (like UCSD) with good reputation, and continue to take JC classes during the summer as well. If you do that, you can probably graduate in 2-3 years. But that’s not typical either. BTW, you can start taking classes at JC when you turn 16.

[an]

[quote=davelj]I have some friends who have a son that was a very mediocre high school student (with marginal test scores). He went to one of the local community colleges for two years, did reasonably well (mostly A’s and B’s), applied to UCSD and was accepted, with credits transferred, without incident. I think it only took him two years to graduate from UCSD. If this kid is any indication, going the community college route is both cheaper and easier. It seems a hell of a lot easier than applying with every kid that wants into the system straight out of high school.

http://uctransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html%5B/quote%5D
It’s not normal to be able to graduate in 4 years if you transfer from JC. If you want to speed things up, you can take JC classes while you’re in HS, during summer and at night to clear out all of your GEs. Then go to a UC (like UCSD) with good reputation, and continue to take JC classes during the summer as well. If you do that, you can probably graduate in 2-3 years. But that’s not typical either. BTW, you can start taking classes at JC when you turn 16.

[an]

[quote=davelj]I have some friends who have a son that was a very mediocre high school student (with marginal test scores). He went to one of the local community colleges for two years, did reasonably well (mostly A’s and B’s), applied to UCSD and was accepted, with credits transferred, without incident. I think it only took him two years to graduate from UCSD. If this kid is any indication, going the community college route is both cheaper and easier. It seems a hell of a lot easier than applying with every kid that wants into the system straight out of high school.

http://uctransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html%5B/quote%5D
It’s not normal to be able to graduate in 4 years if you transfer from JC. If you want to speed things up, you can take JC classes while you’re in HS, during summer and at night to clear out all of your GEs. Then go to a UC (like UCSD) with good reputation, and continue to take JC classes during the summer as well. If you do that, you can probably graduate in 2-3 years. But that’s not typical either. BTW, you can start taking classes at JC when you turn 16.

[an]

[quote=davelj]I have some friends who have a son that was a very mediocre high school student (with marginal test scores). He went to one of the local community colleges for two years, did reasonably well (mostly A’s and B’s), applied to UCSD and was accepted, with credits transferred, without incident. I think it only took him two years to graduate from UCSD. If this kid is any indication, going the community college route is both cheaper and easier. It seems a hell of a lot easier than applying with every kid that wants into the system straight out of high school.

http://uctransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/index.html%5B/quote%5D
It’s not normal to be able to graduate in 4 years if you transfer from JC. If you want to speed things up, you can take JC classes while you’re in HS, during summer and at night to clear out all of your GEs. Then go to a UC (like UCSD) with good reputation, and continue to take JC classes during the summer as well. If you do that, you can probably graduate in 2-3 years. But that’s not typical either. BTW, you can start taking classes at JC when you turn 16.

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