<p>I was homeschooled most of my life and graduated a year early, wasted 2 years at home, and now deciding what to do. I don't have any APs or SATs. All I have is typed up transcripts by my mom and I, which were approved by my district and I got a certificate that I finished high school May 2011. I'm very intelligent - how do I prove it? My mom and others are saying go to community college, and then I have a chance to go to one of the Ivy Leagues if I finish with honors. Is this true? Do I still have a chance, even though I didn't take any APs during my high school years? (I didn't know about them until last year).</p>
<p>Many Ivies dont accept a lot of transfer students. Harvard accepts between 0 and 15 applications out of 600. Stanford is explicit that transfer admission is more competitive than its already super-selective freshmen admission. Cornell is the only Ivy that has a transfer acceptance rate about equal to its freshmen acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, colleges are usually okay with one or even two gap years, as long as you can explain what you did during that time. Your chances are best if you apply EA or ED as a freshmen to the Ivies.</p>