Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

My friends with Juniors / 11th graders have asked me as to when we would start our college visits. Start? We’ve been doing those for years.
 
We actually started college visits years and years ago. For instance when we visited Williamsburg seven years ago we walked the grounds of William & Mary. While our kids were in [...]

Funny skit, must watch for a good laugh.
14 Days of Homeschool

This quote is for the good homeschooling woman who feels AP courses should not be taught by high school teachers without PhD’s in the subject matter.
People who are truly educated and enlightened do not thumb their noses at other people’s efforts but, rather, support and encourage them.   Janez Arko
Yes, Janez, you are correct. We should help each [...]

The package I sent off in my DS’s college application was thick and a bit time consuming to put together. Actually time-consuming is a relative term. Putting together his package was an enjoyable task as I walked down memory lane. The documents included:
School Profile
Counselor Letter
Transcript
High School Activities & Awards
Course Description
Book List
Over the coming weeks I’ll [...]

The stockings are hung by the chimney with care but look! St Nicolas has already been here!
The presents surround our Christmas tree. I have no idea what is in most of them since Santa (DH) took care of all the shopping this year. He always knows what each of us needs and the presents are [...]

I’m on Facebook with both friends and family as my friends. Over the past several weeks as DS’ college acceptance letters have arrived I’ve posted ‘Status Updates’ about DS’ college acceptance letters and his scholarship awards. Five times. Five colleges whose acceptance criteria is selective or highly selective. He has been named to their honor [...]

Yes, college applications, college acceptance letters, scholarship forms and doctor appointments for the kid with the broken leg have been on my mind. Are you wondering through all this what has been going on in the other son’s life? You have! Great, cause this post is going to be totally about DS#2, except of course, [...]

To date DS#1 has applied to nine colleges, been accepted at five and the remaining four should notify him in January to March time frame. One engineering school accepted him into their honor’s program and offered a nice scholarship — enough to cover a little more than 1/3 of each year’s bill. A university offered [...]

We are mid-way through our waiting game, or maybe not quite. DS1 has heard from four of his eight schools and was accepted to all. Two of the schools extended scholarships that will more than cover half of the tuition which is nice but not sufficient for him to attend these schools. The other two [...]