<p>Homeschooled mom. Just joined CC. Two kids, one is college and one who already has several acceptance letters for next year.</p>
<p>I am home educated also and I am a junior in high school. Just recently discovered and joined CC. Are there any posts on here about dual enrollment? I was thinking about doing that next year.</p>
<p>Lots of posts about dual enrollment - there’s a search button in the thin blue bar near the top. It was awesome for my son.</p>
<p>Graduated 13 days ago as a homeschooler. Just sent in my applications last week. Ready to take my SAT II in January and be done :)</p>
<p>Congrats! What SAT II are you taking?</p>
<p>Thank ya! 
I’ll be taking a Math, Biology M, and Literature SAT II. Oh, and you asked something about Dual Enrollment. I did that for two semesters at a community college, so if you might have a few questions, I’ll try to answer them for you!</p>
<p>Do you have to take all of those in 1 day or are they spread out over a week or so? That is a lot of tests! </p>
<p>Yeah, there is a requirement in my state that homeschooled students take 12 credit hours of dual enrollment courses to substitute for the GPA requirement for state “lottery” scholarships. I think there is financial assistance to do this, but I am really not sure. I just learned about this requirement in the last few months, so my New Year’s Resolution is to look into it. </p>
<p>Which dual enrollment courses did you take? Did you take them all in a classroom or did you take any online?</p>
<p>Yeah, I’ll be taking them all on the 26th. </p>
<p>It wasn’t required for me to take any Dual Enrollment courses to graduate, I just took them as an addition to my high school work so I chose what classes I wanted to take. </p>
<p>Biology 101
English 101
Sociology 101
Psychology 201
Spanish 101 (I ended up dropping that class. Doesn’t show on transcript at all)
History 201 (Dropped that too. Doesn’t show on transcript either.)</p>
<p>I took all of them on campus. Ya know, since many people think homeschoolers never get out lol.</p>
<p>The dual enrollment is not a graduation requirement, it is a scholarship/financial aid requirement. My older brother went to public school and took a couple of dual enrollment courses online just to fulfill some graduation requirements. He was in the IB program and had trouble fitting everything in. He was homeschooled through 8th grade. I think his IB tests were spread out over a week or so. He only took one AP exam and focused on IB stuff. </p>
<p>How was the Biology? I was thinking about taking Spanish, too? Was it really hard or did you have a bad professor? I was really thinking about a college algebra course or something like that and my health/wellness course that is a graduation requirement any way. Were you received well there? Did the professors treat you differently? </p>
<p>That stereotype of homeschoolers really needs to go away. I do a lot more than most public school students around here for sure. My mom is always complaining that I am not home enough.</p>
<p>Oops, I got you confused with another person who does have it as a graduation requirement lol. </p>
<p>Well, the professors do not get a profile of each student who is in the class. They may get a glorified name sheet but they wouldn’t know who is there that’s homeschooled, has a GED, or is a drop out, etc… In my Biology class on the first day, there were 100+ students in the lecture room. After the first week, only 82 remained, and after the second week, only 50-something stayed for the semester. So, if they did do a whole profile check on each student, it would pretty much be useless because so many people drop classes in the first week since it wouldn’t show up on transcripts lol. </p>
<p>The Biology class was pretty good because it is really hands-on when we had our Lab meetings. I mainly dropped Spanish because I was graduating with 3years of Spanish already and I didn’t really want to take that extra class.</p>
<p>“Were you received well there?” — Uh, yeah lol. Just another student taking some of the same classes as a few other students. That really all comes down to personality. I’m outgoing and always made friends easily, and on the first day in Bio, I was friends with 5 other girls and we pretty much stuck together the whole semester.</p>
<p>I’m homeschooled! Accepted to Texas A&M and Texas State, holding out for UT. I am currently in my second year of dual credit</p>
<p>Congrats! Panther! A&M is a great school.</p>
<p>I agree the stereotype sucks where i live: Mississippi</p>
<p>Panther: I’m in at a&m too ! As well as Georgia tech. I’m crazy excited for college to start :)</p>
<p>Congrats XOXOviviannnnn!!!</p>
<p>Hope you guys do well and give homeschooling a great name!</p>
<p>^^
Awesome!</p>
<p>What Curriculum do you guys use:
I use Teaching Textbooks, Apologia and the Kolbe Academy</p>
<p>We use Seton mainly – it’s a Catholic home study school. We also supplement with some of the “Great Courses”.</p>
<p>i love the Great Courses.</p>
<p>I chose not to do Seton because it seems so inflexible.</p>
<p>If you try to do everything it says, then it would be ridiculous. My mom goes through with me at the beginning of each week and we decide what is most important. It isn’t too bad when you do it that way. </p>
<p>I have never heard of the Kolbe Academy. Is that something local? Not that I have heard of everything. Lol</p>
<p>Kolbe Academy is another Catholic Curriculum. It is flexible and has great courses you can take.
[Kolbe</a> Academy](<a href=“http://www.kolbe.org/]Kolbe”>http://www.kolbe.org/)</p>