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I guess that tells us what we needed to know...DS took the teen tournament test too and has heard nothing. Sorry for your DD’s conflict, what a bummer.I like the explanation Brown gives on their admission page...makes it harder to swallow if DD doesn't get into several of the schools on her list. They are looking to create a class with different characteristics known of course, only to them. So if you don't have the hook they want, it's not that you're not good enough, it's that they wanted a purple llama that crochets and you're a pink walrus that plays the clarinet (ridiculous examples but I don't want to offend anyone).
This is my thin thread of hope...DD can write and hopefully will sell herself.
And on our can't be in two places at once frustration..DD took the online test for the Jeopardy! Teen Tournament and made it to the live try out phase...which will be held when she is in Spain. Drat!!! Seventeen years ago I had the same experience-invited to the live try out but couldn't due to a military obligation. Not sure when we'll learn we're destined to watch, not play
DS is taking AP Bio, Calc BC and World History tests. He opted out of the AP physics test. Normally we say plan to take them all but he is struggling in that class so no point. Many of his teachers have been having study sessions on Saturdays and after school. He gets to them when he can, but we are kind of in the mindset of, if he hasn’t learned it by now...he’s not going to know it. Last year he took APES and Calc AB and didn’t do as well as he had hoped but it was not for lack of studying. He said his APES teacher didn’t teach them all they needed to know for the test, which was disappointing. The entire class felt that way so I know it wasn’t DS.
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