6 posts tagged “college”
We had a nice week off with George last week after he finished his grueling 60+hrs./7day per week 2 month proposal schedule. He and the boys finished our water-softener drainage system, and we went for a couple of walks, ran errands, and mostly relaxed.
Jordan is taking his last college final today for his Freshman year! He thinks he did well.
Jared and Ben are finished with their community college calculus class. Jared got the outstanding student award for calculus (out of 12 students:) and Ben got second! They still have their senior year of homeschool to finish hopefully by the end of this month. They also have accepted their scholarships to UD and UTA respectively. Ben has some upcoming math placement testing and orientation. Jared just has paperwork until his orientation in September.
Jeremy and Rachel are finishing 8th grade and will be in high-school next year!
Rebecca is finishing 2nd grade.
Everyone is looking forward to their friends, James, John and Anna coming over to screen Prince Caspian weekend after next. Wish our Pharr friends could make it for that too!
He just found out through the mail that half of his four years, should he choose to accept it, at UTArlington are paid for due to his impressive academic excellence! And high SAT score. Yahoo!
#2 Son and his dad are at the University of Dallas today for their Senior Odyssey Days open house weekend. It's a pretty packed schedule of presentations, complementary meals, class observations, and meetings with admissions and financial aid department representatives. As of noon, both George and Jared were very impressed and excited with how nice and polite the students are, and how impressive the professors are. They echoed what the admissions lady has told us all along in application conversations, that they really want to be hospitable to homeschooled students because they seek to maintain a traditional, homey, mannerly Christian atmosphere. The only way Jared could go there is if he gets a pretty hefty scholarship and lived on campus. Otherwise he'll probably end up going to the closer St. Thomas More, or UT Arlington with his brother. May God's blessings be upon my three older college-age kids as they enter this launching period of their lives.
Not to brag (much) - Ben's score went up to an 1870, 30 points higher than his last. He completed the essay this time, but went down in the other scores a tad. Still, not too shabby! He will turn 17 in March so we're thinking he may go to the community college next year and then on to UTArlington to earn some sort of engineering degree. He's a science/ techno wiz, which was not measured by the scienceless SAT.
The oh so trying to be humble, but Lord it's hard (if you remember the Mac Davis song) Jared improved in everything earning him an additional 120 points, to accomplish the ever so impressive score of 2240 out of 2400! We're hoping this will also earn him some financial aid. He's looking at either the more local College of St. Thomas More in Fort Worth, or if he can get a hefty scholarship to live on campus, University of Dallas to pursue liberal arts with a pre-Seminary focus at present. Although these are Catholic schools, we hope that he will get the Eastern Orthodox correction aided by the blog Energetic Procession.
What a hectic week so far! For me anyway as I prefer to only have one extra thing to do a day or less. Monday was get the final curriculum straight for this coming school year, including a call to Weatherford College to see about dual enrollment for Jared and Ben for their senior year of high school. They have done all the math Abeka offers since they completed Trig/Analytical Geometry last year. So I was told that for them to take Calculus at WCC I would need to fill out an early enrollment form, regular college application, and submit a transcript. Well that took all day yesterday as I hadn't conglomerated all their grades yet and had to find a transcript template on line, which I ended up modifying and making my own tables on WORD.
I guess it all turned out pretty well, because this morning as the three of us assembled at the College, the admissions counselor kept saying, "excellent" as he perused it. I have to admit I'm more impressed with their accomplishments after seeing them concentrated on 2 pieces of paper each. They've worked really hard to make good grades, and accrued 186 community service hours each! And that does not include serving as Altar boys and Choir members. But it does include Pysanki sale days, Peroghi making and sale days as well as food pantry and monastery and Mexico orphanage improvement projects.
Next they have to take a placement test and get cleared with the head of the Math Dept. The Counselor was really helpful and told them to come to his office and let him know after they scheduled their test and then again after they take it and he will personally register them without their having to stand in the long, last minute lines. Cool.
Ben's already started a post on the trip which will probably beat mine to the presses.
Jordan is registering for college today! He's driving his own car, his own checkbook in hand (although it looks like Chick Fil A will end up giving him a scholarship which will cover the costs of this semester), with his impressive transcript to an orientation class he signed up for himself. He's growing up!
