Callie and I spent quite some time discussing college and career plans today. She has come to the conclusion that she is not sure what she wants to do, but is pretty sure college is involved.Of course this brought up what it takes to get into college; so we looked at college websites about admission requirements and discussed what she was doing to meet the requirements. This is a big step for her. She told me that she didn't realize there were requirements. I said that even if she didn't do "college prep" college was an option, but she strongly felt she wanted to spend her time getting as ready as possible. There is a lot of information out there about general college admission requirements and we were able to come up with a decent list of things that we thought she should complete as part of her high school program. We had already decided to spread high school out over 5 to 6 years instead of cramming it in to 4.
Callie stuck mainly to the basics. I wanted to encourage her in what she wanted, allowing that it was her decision what to do with her time and I would support her. She wants to take Japanese. We will be purchasing the Rosetta Stone for this. She also wants to continue her art, writing and other hobbies; so she has allowed plenty of time for those interests. She wants to work independently on math as needed. We will only be doing one course at a time. She is going to begin with a high school level earth science program. She has already hit many of the topics, such as plate tectonics and the hydrologic cycle, but we will be digging a little deeper. I will be outlining the program on our website.
She is really excited and focused and seems to be having fun. I can hardly believe how old she is getting.
College, wow, I know it is never to soon to think about it but it still seems strange to me that she is thinking about college already