Son was accepted to Lehigh today. Have another homeschooled friend’s son currently studying at Lehigh.
Congrats @GFORCE2818 on the acceptances!
@HOPE888, yes, homeschooled students have been admitted to UCLA. I worked with several last year who were admitted. They definitely had top grades, test scores, and course rigor. I have known others to be admitted in other years.
One homeschooled student I worked with this year was waitlisted.
@sbjdorlo Thank you very much for your reply and info! This is good news to know that UCLA indeed accepted homeschooled student. By any chance, do you know and mind to share the stats (SAT General Test scores, SAT Subject Test scores & AP test scores) of that homeschooled student (waitlisted for UCLA) you worked with this year ? Also, what major did he/ she applied to UCLA this year ? I appreciate it very much for your valuable inputs. Thank you!
I’ll send you a PM, @HOPE888.
All done with college decisions. So glad it’s over!
All in all I applied to 17 schools. Here are the results:
Accepted: Cazenovia, Siena, St. Rose, Le Moyne, St. Lawrence, Union, Skidmore, Macalester, St. Olaf, Colby, Vassar, Hamilton, Carleton, and Cornell.
Waitlisted: Middlebury
Rejected: Swarthmore & Dartmouth.
I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get into Dartmouth, which was my top choice. However, I can’t complain as I got into most of my top choices. This will be a tough decision!
@banaynay wow, congrats!! You have many fine choices! Well done.
Final list for my son:
Accepted: Hendrix, UGA, Knox, St. Olaf, Macalester, Vassar, Hamilton, Oberlin
Waitlisted: Emory/Oxford, Grinnell, Carleton, Colby, Wesleyan
Rejected: Harvard, Williams
We’ve got visits to Macalester, St. Olaf, and Oberlin coming up next week, and then he’ll probably fly up to (re)visit Hamilton and Vassar later in April. And then I’m going to take a long break before we have to do this again in 3 years with my next kid!
Thank you so much @JanieWalker ! This has been an exhausting process for sure.
@banaynay and @kokotg- I was wondering if you could share how you were homeschooled? Did you take online courses or was your cuririculum done by a parent?
@GFORCE2818 did your child do all online courses?
@Odie11 In high school, my son did a combo of classes at home and outside classes. He did science in 9th and 10th at a hybrid school and we had a private Spanish tutor; everything else was at home. Then he did part time dual enrollment at a local university in 11th and 12th–total of 10 classes.
Final list for my son…
Accepted: Goucher, Definace, Earlham, Towson University, Allegheny (honors), McDaniel, Washington College, St. Mary’s (MD), & Hood
Waitlisted: Gettysburg
Rejected: Franklin & Marshall & Bowdoin
Great merit aid from all of his acceptances.
Congratulations to all of you with all of your success! Tough choices out there for everyone.
@Odie11 My son was schooled at home through 9th grade and in 10th grade started online classes at a university (10 total) and (5) AP classes. Most of his “electives” were at home.
@GFORCE2818 -Sorry to bug you more-were his AP classes done through an online high school then or also through a university on line program (confused since AP are high school level courses)? What university, if you don’t mind? And lastly, then I assume you had multiple transcripts to give the colleges?-Thanks for any answers! And Congrats to him-was looking at Lafayette for our daughter.
No bother at all @Odie11 He started dual enrollment at WVU (West Virginia University) but he wanted to take English 101 & 102 as well as Spanish classes and they didn’t off them. So he started taking classes at CalU (California University of Pennsylvania.) At one point he was taking classes at both. At the same time, he was taking AP courses online through AP Homeschoolers and then I arranged with varying local schools for him to take the AP tests. I turned in one transcript for his college applications that included all of classes, but I had a column that showed whether the class was Honors, AP, or Dual Enrollment. I also kept a very long “Course Descriptions” of EVERY class he took in High School, including home courses and ones provided from outside the home. I usually just coped from his syllabus for those courses. If he wants to transfer any of his Dual Enrollment credits, he will then have to submit his transcripts. Feel free to ask any questions you have.
Thank you so much @GFORCE2818. I am new to this, this year. My D is just finishing her junior year on-line and trying to figure it all out for senior year. Did any of the college ask for diplomas? And they were all fine with your transcript?
@Odie11 colleges don’t ask for anyone’s diploma, just transcripts always.
@Odie11 I have graduated 5 kids from our homeschool; 2 were awarded their university’s highest competitive scholarships. We are “at home” homeschoolers for the most part. (One of my kids was extremely advanced and graduated from high school having completed multiple in-major courses through dual enrollment.) But, for the most part, my kids’ transcripts consist of courses taken at home with me as their primary teacher.
I prepare a transcript, course descriptions, and a school profile (describing our homeschool philosophy which is most definitely not school-at-home 
) which they submit together. It has not been a problem.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek Nicely done! @Odie11 We also did the transcript, course descriptions, and school profile. You can find samples online. My S was also awarded highest university scholarships at 3 of the schools and he has won outside national scholarships too. I know that @milgymfam D was extremely successful this year as well. Just keep good records and have your D take challenging classes, the rest will fall into place. Don’t worry, we all had the same questions as you at one point in time. BTW- congratulations all of you homeschool moms (and dads and kids)! Excellent job!
@cornandbeans Which school did your homeschooler end up choosing? What type merit did she get?