2011 Homeschool Acceptance Thread

Pre-College Issues Home Schooling and College
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<p>Since people are starting to post on last years thread I will start a new one. </p>

<p>Here are our results so far:</p>

<p>Accepted:</p>

<p>Willamette with a 17K/year scholarship. She will not be accepting this one - it was her safety.
St Johns - Santa Fe (they dont have merit money) We havent visited, but we both love the idea of the school. Still, not her first choice.</p>

<p>Pending:</p>

<p>Colorado College - EA
Pitzer - ED
Scripps (RD, but had to apply be ED deadline for their merit scholarship)</p>

<p>Still to apply (if ED does not come through)
Pomona, and maybe Whitman and Oxy.</p>

<p>quick stats - homeschooled since K.
SAT 2380, 800 - Math 2, 750 - USH
NMSF (237)
National AP Scholar - has taken 9 APs: a 3, 4, and the rest are 5s.
Gold Medal National Latin Exam -9th/10th/11th
AIME Qualifier 9th/10th/11th</p>

<p>ECs - ice skating (non competitive), ceramics, hammered dulcimer</p>

<p>summer programs - CTY - double sessions for 3 years. Last year she attended a free (funding by the NSF) math camp at a university. This should show the schools that she can handle dorm life.</p>

<p>Volunteer - she helps out at a therapeutic riding academy.</p>

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<p>she has good stats, Pitzer was supposed to be more of her safety. You know how they say "love your safety" ? she loved hers a bit too much. Pomona would have been a better fit, but we see why she loves Pitzer, so we gave the go ahead to ED.</p>

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<p>Deferred at Stanford. Hopefully I can get accepted eventually.</p>

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<p>Son has been home schooled since birth…</p>

<p>Accepted EA- Georgetown
Semi-finalist Morehead Cain at UNC</p>

<p>Waiting
Yale
Princeton
UVA
Davidson College
Washington and Lee</p>

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<p>Homeschooled from Day 1, class of '09 . . .</p>

<p>Accepted:
William and Mary, full scholarship,
UPenn Wharton, off the 3rd waitlist (from PA, hard to get into if in-state)
NYU Stern (4th-ranked undergrad business program at application, 5th-ranked currently)
Penn State
Bentley College
A number of DIII track-and-field scholarships as well.</p>

<p>Anyone who says homeschoolers can’t succeed simply isn’t right. For anyone interested in top-10 undergrad business programs, a career in the financial services industry, or Stern in particular, feel free to read my ongoing thread: <a href=“Current Stern Sophomore: Ask Me - New York University - College Confidential Forums”>Current Stern Sophomore: Ask Me - New York University - College Confidential Forums;

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<p>Homeschooled from day one. Graduated this past spring as a 16 year old, currently taking classes at a CC but will be a freshman with some college credits when I attend my four-year college next fall.</p>

<p>Highschool GPA: 3.8
CC GPA: 3.78
SAT: 1880
ACT: 29
Great ECs - Violin, softball, basketball, and huge involvement with equestrian activities. Competed regionally and started and ran my own summer horse camp for younger children.</p>

<p>Going the pre-dental route. </p>

<p>Accepted: Assumption College. No offical finaid package, but they said I will probably receive a $16,000 merit scholarship. </p>

<p>Waiting:
Holy Cross
St. Anselms
UNH</p>

<p>Congrats to all the acceptances!</p>

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<p>My d who has been homeschooled always.</p>

<p>ACT 30, 2 college classes both with A’s</p>

<p>accepted at with merit scholarships- University of Alabama, Birmingham-Southern College, University of Denver,Lynchburg College, Millsaps College
accepted waiting to hear about scholarships- Agnes Scott, University of Tulsa
waiting for decision- Furman University, St. Olaf’s COllege
deferred- University of Chicago</p>

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<p>homeschooled since day one.</p>

<p>Received full tuition at both The University of Nebraska and Iowa State University…
Honors College & Instate Tuition @ Oklahoma State.<br>
waiting on the University of Texas… <em>fingers crossed</em></p>

<p>29 on the ACT.<br>
Took Dual Credits. (All A’s)
Lots of community service/EC’s etc.</p>

<p>So proud of all the homeschoolers!</p>

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<p>So far:</p>

<p>Accepted into </p>

<p>University of Southern California, invited to compete for Presidential Scholarship
Seattle Pacific University, offered a full ride</p>

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<p>My D, homeschooled from 3rd grade on-
31 credits 4.0 dual credit at the community college
3.88 unweighted GPA
Lopsided ACT/SAT scores - great English, not so great math</p>

<p>NYU, Syracuse, Univ of Miami, Point Park, Elon, etc.</p>

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<p>Daughter has always been homeschooled. Will finish high school with a year’s worth of college credits.</p>

<p>This fall, she will attend Fairleigh Dickinson University with an enormous scholarship. Accounting major.</p>

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<p>I just got into stanford!!!</p>

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<p>Nice Jason! Did you do traditional homeschooling or virtual?</p>

<p>Congratulations to everyone. It’s reassuring to see this considering that I am blindly going into homeschooling next year!</p>

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<p>curious. why home schooling? better teaching? you can control curriculum? bad stuff happening at local school? Ranch kid 100 miles from school?</p>

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<p>D accepted to:</p>

<p>Colorado State University
University of Colorado/Boulder
University of Denver
Rice University</p>

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<p>My dd has been hsed from the beginning aside from a brief foray into ps in 6th and 7th grades. She started taking dual credit classes at the local cc as soon as she was eligible (summer after 10th grade in my cc district). She will have 50 college credits at the end of her senior year and will only have history and government left to completed out of the core curriculum.</p>

<p>She applied to just one college (because it was the only one that offered the exact program she wanted) and was accepted with a fabulous scholarship.</p>

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Control of curriculum / learning at his pace, not the speed of the slowest kid in the class. No “standing in line until everyone is quiet”. Ability to spend a week on a topic instead of 45 minutes. Better teaching - :wink: yup!</p>

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<p>I don’t know if I truly belong to this thread. I changed to home-schooling 6 months before high school graduation. I left my public school so that I could have a more flexible schedule to to pursue other academic opportunities. </p>

<p>I was admitted to UCLA (officially enrolled/ already doing research in a lab)
UC Berkeley (Reagents’ an Chancellor’s Scholar finalist)
UC San Diego (Thurgood Marshall College)
UC Irvine (ELC early acceptance/ honors program)</p>

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<p>Homeschooled from day 1. Wouldn’t change any part of my home education :)</p>

<p>Admitted:
Princeton (where I’ll be going; I actually know two other homeschoolers and one other ex-homeschooler who are going to be incoming freshmen with me)
Georgetown
Grove City College
Hillsdale College
Wheaton College
American University</p>

<p>Waitlisted:
Dartmouth College
Washington University in St. Louis
Davidson College
University of Chicago</p>

<p>Rejected:
Yale (EA)
UPenn</p>

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<p>Congratulations mintastic! Congrats to all of yall!</p>

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<p>Why does Davidson hates homeschoolers? What did we ever do to hurt the admissions board?</p>