re: How Many of You Have Kids at UGA?

I wonder how much longer Bethel Homes will remain standing

At my HS in the mid 90's you get an extra .25 for an honors class and an extra .5 for an AP class. But as another poster mentioned above, they were few and far between. British Lit, Calculus, Advanced Chemistry, and I think all 4th year language classes counted as AP. All of which were optional, of course. The real difference between the AP/Honors classes is just twice as much work, there wasn't much difference in the actual material. And they give you the extra bump the the GPA so people wouldn't shy away from participation. Thinking "I could ace the regular version of Brit lit, but if I'm in Honors or AP, I might make a B" so that's another reason for the bumps back then.

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Honors is .5 and AP is 1 point now. Also, depending on what you score on the AP test, they count as college credits at many schools. There is also a dual enrollment deal where HS kids take courses at JCs which helps GPA and college credits.
It is hard to measure the actual difference in academic talent as GPAs and ACT and SAT are different now. Regardless, most schools are more competitive than they were in the 1980s.

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Both my kids are honors in middle school and my son has signed up for AP classes. He was invited to our STEM academy but wanted to stay in HS with AP classes instead.

Both mine want to follow in my footsteps at UGA. Every time we go for a game they want to see the campus, etc.

Dual enrollment was all the rage 15 years ago but it’s become so commonplace now (largely due to being able to complete the courses online) that it doesn’t hold as much weight as it did in the admissions process. Fact of the matter is AP, IB, and dual enrollment don’t set students apart anymore; it’s just the minimum you hve to do to get into a school like UGA, UNC, UF, etc. Frankly, if the goal is just to get a UGA degree most kids are better off going to State or Georgia College or Augusta U or wherever and transferring in (standards for which are super low and likelihood of admittance is really high). But most kids (and parents for that matter) have such bad FOMO over not experiencing freshman year in Athens that they put all their eggs in that basket and the freak the hell out when they don’t make it (which is a total crapshoot by the way; admissions offices at these top public schools basically just throw a dart at a board at a certain point and it leads to really high achieving kids getting denied or wait listed. There’s just way too many kids going to college now as compared to 20-30 years ago and they all present virtually the same on a piece of paper).

I think the plan is to rebuild it because the current version is a slum. But it’ll be a heavily gentrified version of the original. Master plans are online somewhere, it’s ambitious but it’ll be kinda neat if they can actually follow through on the whole project

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the current version is a slum

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yeah that's the version I'm familiar with ha. Last time I was there it resembled something out of The Wire

I have found it is actually cheaper to adopt a Sugarbaby on campus than send kids there now.

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have found it is actually cheaper to adopt a Sugarbaby

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Go on…

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What does he want to study?

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Haven't discussed it with him. He also runs cross-country in HS and knows a couple of AU runners from meets.
He has also been taking some college-level courses through AU and they have told him he will be accepted if he applies.

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How to properly penetrate a goat?

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Why do you ask? Having difficulties in your own sex life? That was an inappropriate comment in a civil discussion.