Just got the long-awaited email. Our DS10 got in!

Congrats!

Congratulations! : )

Yes!

Got the email this am. DS9 too

Thank you! And congratulations to your DS, Catalana!

Congrats Cocopandan and Catalana! DS8 got in too. We're very pleasantly surprised as we submitted only achievement scores and a portfolio. Really thought they'd ask for more info.

Congratulations to all of you!!

Congratulations!

What did you include for a portfolio?

Excellent news! Congratulations!! Where is the "like" button

You've given some impetus to my filling out that neglected application on the corner of my desk!

I am curious as well.. what did you submit for the portfolio?

Congrats to all that have made it in this month

Congrats Cocopandan, Catalana and LDMom!

My humble thanks for the congratulations messages!



AZgirasol, here's my little epic for whatever it's worth!

Apart from notes of achievement and milestones in the application form, I also wrote a short essay on his milestones and how I struggle to challenge him academically and parent him emotionally and find social peers. I also wrote about how he has exceeded my ability to teach science although he doesn't write anything down for science.

For work samples, it was tough because he didn't write a lot before age 6. So I chose mostly his math work samples and math doodles.

The doodles included a graph he sketched based on some observations he made about number patterns. Many of his math doodles weren't dated so I gave them a range of possible dates for the samples, choosing some he did at 6, 7 and more recently at 8. For math homework, he works at an 8th grade level formally at home so I included copies of pages of the textbook he uses for math with the answers he wrote and his scratch paper for working out the problems so that they may easily refer to what problems he's working on.

I also included a video of him giving a presentation to a group of his friends and their parents about stress levels and enzymes that may cause stress (just a short 5-min video, and he made some simple slides to go with it). In the video, a parent engages him in a short q&a and he answers quite confidently (although perhaps not accurately). I think that this verbal ability snapshot via video may have helped most.

For achievement, I sent copies of his Explore scores and the report available online from Belin Blank.

Congrats to you both too!

I posted on the other thread about what we included. I really really worried about it, but finally took Grinity's advice and just pulled together was I could (we cut it close, I had to overnight it to get it there by the deadline).

Good luck.

Congrats!

DS (5.5) got accepted yesterday too. Just what we needed after a terrible meeting in the afternoon with his kindergarten teacher and principal

Congrats Drink!

Hear, hear! Grinity and Dottie, I'm just so grateful for the both of you. Thanks so much for all you do on this board!

Congratulations to everyone.

And sorry about the bad meetings with principals and teachers. BTDT. Have the scars.

For the portfolio, I only included one part of his science project. It was a solar system jeopardy done on Power Point. He was quite bumped about it because nobody in his class knew the answers (neither did I . Another one is a 2-page doodle that contains what he knew about the solar system. He did it at school as part of the post-test.

I didn't include anything math in the portfolio, but mentioned that he's currently working on AOPS Intro to Algebra.

That's terrific, ld, drink and cat, congrats to you for doing the app and hope your dc's enjoy the opportunities!


Cocopandan
I can sympathize, my DS is also space obsessed and frequently disappointed that most aren't! He would have loved the space game

DeHe

I second that! What will we do without Grinity and Dottie?

Oh Catalana, LDMom, and Cocopandan -
I just didn't have the slightest clue about DS's giftedness until he was 8 when we joined YSP. He's 14 now and doing well, but I still feel both ashamed and resentful that I didn't do more for him earlier.

I figure if I can help 100,200 or 300 kids grow up happier than that is up to 300 more adults he'll be able to enjoy that much more as co-workers, bosses, or even a spouse! In our tiny world, and extra 300 who know and like themselves as they are from a very young age makes a big difference. Each child has unique needs, so that means that there are 300 families who need support to make the very best possible (or least-worst possible) decisions. If I can support you so you can support your kiddos, then I feel it's a wonderful investment of my time, and about the most I can do- if indirectly - for my son.

Plus it's so much fun!
Grinity

i'm new. what does DS10 stand for? thanks.

DS10 = Dear Son, age 10

Try this post for list of common acronyms and abbreviations.