Couch 113 - Sofa, So Good

I might feel stupid for not knowing/remembering this, but what is your job?

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It feels strange, incongruent, to be dealing with old lady diseases and older age yet still feel like a child...still feel 10 or 16.

It is the oddest feeling.

I'm afraid I don't understand much of this - I have not had the time to look it up. These are different kinds of exams that make you eligible for college? I assume they are open for high school students? And how can you get college credits from an entrance exam? From what I read I thought your university credits worked like ours do, where you get credits from passing uni courses, and certain combinations of credits might lead to a degree, but then you actually have to take the course first...

And with the elision marks too!

And I thought I could get away with not writing od' et amo here.

I probably haven't mentioned it recently I am a university lecturer, and I mainly teach academic writing.

That's for all the support last night.

Struggling today but I'm out of my bed and at work. I might have brought two blankets with me...

Ellahmae

I didn't go to college here either - they are very different from the system I'm used to... I'm guessing AP courses and the like can be used as prerequisites, so if you get a good enough grade in AP English you might not have to take English 101, or something like that...??
It seemed a little bizarre to me when I first came here that you would take classes unrelated to your major in college, but when you consider that American students don't have to choose their major until well after they start college, it makes sense.

Yes, if you get above a certain score on the AP exam it can count as your college per-requisite course, ie: 3.5 on English AP Test = English 101

Some colleges do not count AP Test as college credit, but they will allow first year students to start in higher level courses. I think it's a money thing.

I'm sad hearing about everyone's AP exams because I had to drop out of high school 25 years ago and get my general equivalency diploma. Missed out on two years of free education.

I started college the next semester though and now have a doctoral degree. Turned out okay I suppose. Still makes me sad when I think about it though.

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I never heard of AP classes til my son started taking them last year. I guess they weren't a thing when i was in HS in the 70's. I did however test out of a couple freshmen classes in college, english and writing. That was in 1980.

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I am sad that i missed the pillow fight !

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I called t's voice mail this morning and apologized for my outburst via email last night.. I asked him to please text/email me back that he got my message and please tell me if I had totally messed things up. I don't think he will and will wait to address it during my session that is not until Friday. I just want to go home and lay in bed!

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AP isn't just for prereqs - it is considered a college-level course. With a 4 or a 5 score I could replace a whole course towards graduation, and it just read as AP Art History or whatever on my transcript. It was useful for keeping me on track for graduation when I studied abroad for a year on a program that my college would not give me full credit for since they weren't affiliated.

Now it is somewhat different. "Some" universitie do it the way you and I did it, the old way, but some universities like my son's change the rules several years back. He is a National AP scholar that took 6 AP test in 2014. His particular school allowed him to skip All Freshmen level classes, and take 300-400 level glasses in English, economics, etc. He did have 3 classes from the community college that they gave him credit. If he had gone to some other schools he applied to he could have started as a sophomore.

Unfortunately, Schools change things from year to year. Some departments in certain schools will not give AP credit. This seems to be a trend in more select colleges, and prestigious departments. I believe it is all about the dollar. The more they allow classes from outside there university, the less they get.

No. Those are the advancements of the classes. Most kids are in standard. The higher you get, the harder the class. AP gives you college credit if you pass the exam, as well as IB and Dual enrollment/credit, but the standards, honors, and advanced honors do not. They are just regular classes. Hope this helps!

Advanced Placement courses culminate in an exam (which is optional unless a student is in a district that requires all of its AP students to sit for the exam). The exams are scored and a qualifying score means that colleges and universities can give credit for certain courses if they so choose. Colleges don't have to accept AP credit at all. Most do though, recognizing that students who have successfully qualified on the exams, which are incredibly rigorous, have met the requirements for comparable courses in their institutions.

So for instance, my students take the AP English Language & Composition exam. The course focuses on rhetorical analysis, persuasion, and argumentation. Generally, qualifying on this exam can earn 3 or 6 hours of freshman level rhetoric and composition credit depending on how high a student's qualifying score is and what the individual universities choose to give credit for -- it varies.

It seems no matter how hard I try, I always o something wrong. I'm just so stupid and worthless, no matter what my T says!

I hate myself.
How much can one take before it becomes too much? Is there a limit?
And over something so stupid, too. Why am I so sensitive. I'm really worthless. Sorry, couch. I just really needed to say that.

Aaaaah! They are courses, not just exams or tests - then it makes sense. Thanks! I am not even going to ask what dual enrollment means

Here, students apply to university based on their final grade from high school. All high schools and programmes count the same, though some university courses require e.g. 3 years of high school physics, so if you took a HS programme that didn't include physics you would have to take those courses first. (There are a few core subjects that all HS programmes offer: Swedish, maths, history, English, but not all programmes make you eligible for university studies.) And then there is a test which is given once a year, which is open to everybody, and some proportion of the students are accepted based on that test. Of course some programmes are more popular and so the grade average required to be accepted to those is higher.

There are no high school courses that give university credits. Only students who are actually enrolled at uni can get credits. On the other hand, undergrad studies are much less tightly regulated; unless you are studying towards a particular professional degree there are no mandatory courses, and students might take undergrad courses for one semester, two semesters, fifteen semesters... they will obly get funding for something like five years I think but apart from that there's nothing to stop you from being an undergrad forever. We get a lot of retired people taking some undergrad courses.

You are not worthless. Trust me. You are thoughtful, kind, and an important member of the couch crew.

No you are not!! You are amazing!!

You are sensitive because you have a kind and caring heart! It's hard sometimes to function in a world where you have to deal with people who don't have a heart like yours.

((( hug )))

Heh. Discussion on feelings of safety in another thread. Only today I discussed with my best friend how it is impossible for me to feel quite safe unless I'm alone. He pointed out that when I am alone I am not in fact safe because I want to hurt myself. So I guess safety does not exist...