Chance for Homeschooler?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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These are my friends stats, not mine.

Hello CC,
I am a homeschooler and want to know my chances.
SAT: 1600
ACT: 35
SAT II: 5 x 800

I have only my parents transcripts (4.0 GPA) and nothing from a local community college or something. My courses at home were very, very rigorous and my parents made my transcript. (lol) I took some challenging online classes through coursera and MIT Open course ware but nothing with real transcripts. I do have a separate second language teacher for a recommendation and a Calc 4 professor. The second language is from a semi-recognized class (No transcript). The Calc 4 professor is from a university but grades won’t be out by the time I’m applying so I’ll only have a rec.

Any suggestions? Please Chance.

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I’m not sure anyone can be an expert on a unique case like this. I would talk to an admission officer. Live chat in Wolverine Access is really convenient too, and they could probably find out for you. I heard about people dm’ing the UMich admissions Twitter page too.

The scores are very impressive, but a lack of transcript strikes me as very odd. I think admissions would’ve sent mail asking for clarification if they needed it; my friend indicated that she had a pending felony because she was written up at school once, so admissions asked for an explanation and she got that cleared up, Off of that, your friend should be okay if admissions hasn’t asked for anything, especially with phenomenal test scores like that.

Of course, I don’t know much about the homeschool system and I can only give an opinion. Take what I say as you will. I’m sure your friend will be fine, hope everything turns out well!!

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Thanks! He has a transcript, but it’s made by his parents. There are also course descriptions, book’s used, and grading breakdowns.

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I would tell your friend not to worry.

I have assisted several homeschoolers with very similar stats. The only difference is their SATs were on 2230+ on the 2400 scale. And their SAT IIs were 780+ with a couple 800s.

All of them also had transcripts developed by parents and none had community college classes or anything of the sort - all home-based classes. All the kids went to #1 schools. Look up the colleges an universities that were #1 in the past 6 years in USNWR and each kid got in and attended those. In fact, the kids each got into 3 or more top 10 schools.

Not mentioned in your post though is ECs. The kids I helped had excellent in-depth extracurricular activities that focused on one or two things, but they did them to the hilt.