I am not sure when she set the goal, but for more than a year, L has been working towards getting her Associate of Science Degree from Dixie State College by December of this year, 2010. I have tried to get her to slow down, wondering what she will do when she has a Bachelor Degree by the age of 18. She insists that it is her goal, and the prophet encourages education, so why would she want to slow down? O.K. How do you say no to that? Last Spring 2010 semester she clept out of CIS 1200, came from the testing center skipping, saying she could add another 3 credits because she just got an A in that class! Wow! She wanted to enroll in Rodeo, 1 credit, and then I managed to discourage her from adding any more. Recently she realized she had to have a math class above 1040 for her Associate, which meant if she didn't place well on the math portion of the CPT she would not reach her December goal. She studied for a couple of weeks to retake the CPT placement test. With a meeting with her counselor as the driving deadline, she went to the testing center somewhat fearful. She took the entire CPT in the Fall of 2009, and scored a 44 on the math portion. That put her in math 990 but she had taken that test cold - not reviewing at all for it. I told her she could do much better on it, and not to worry, to chalk that up to the testing experience, and trust when the time came she would be ok. So she was a bit worried walking in. She spent the last two days before the test trying to learn about her calculator for the quadratic equation problems we understood would be on the test according to the sample tests provided online. She worked and worked, programing her new calculator, with new confidence she would be ok. When she got to the testing center, they told her she couldn't take a calculator at all. Because she had studied so carefully, and understood not just the problem, but the implications of how to program the computer to do them, she went in with a piece of scratch paper and a pencil. It wasn't long before I got a happy text! She was already done.
I was on the phone when she got done, so I didn't take her call. She was home quick, to drop her results in front of me :). She scored a 95! Clepping out of 1010, 1020, 1030, 1040, 1050, eligible to take math 1060!!!! She really only wanted to take math 1050, and so she is! She is a genius! I am so lucky to be her Mom! We met with her college (yes she is now 16!) counselor the next morning with big smiles, while she signed the paper saying she was eligible for graduation with successful completion of 18 credits this fall, all of which are totally feasible! We fully expect she will reach her goal, and get her Associate of Science degree while 16 yrs old! Nice work girl! I love you tons! Thanks Heavenly Father!
I was on the phone when she got done, so I didn't take her call. She was home quick, to drop her results in front of me :). She scored a 95! Clepping out of 1010, 1020, 1030, 1040, 1050, eligible to take math 1060!!!! She really only wanted to take math 1050, and so she is! She is a genius! I am so lucky to be her Mom! We met with her college (yes she is now 16!) counselor the next morning with big smiles, while she signed the paper saying she was eligible for graduation with successful completion of 18 credits this fall, all of which are totally feasible! We fully expect she will reach her goal, and get her Associate of Science degree while 16 yrs old! Nice work girl! I love you tons! Thanks Heavenly Father!