<p>Story in today's Chicago Tribune</p>
<p>Home-schooled</a> Evanston teen accepted by Harvard, Yale, more -- chicagotribune.com</p>
<p>I don't necessarily equate homeschooling with being intellectually deprived. Some parents homeschool for purely religious reasons, which may frequently be limiting. But homeschooling to go at a faster pace than the median kid in the public school classroom is a pretty viable option.</p>
<p>This article features one of CC's own. Both she and her mom have posted here. She seems like an amazing young woman.</p>
<p>That's so cool! ^^^^</p>
<p>Congrats, whoever you are!</p>
<p>this doesn't impress me at all...its nice...but seems some $$ was also involved in this education, her opportunites</p>
<p>maybe nice and all that, but worthy of a newspaper article?</p>
<p>not so much- she had lots of breaks, etc</p>
<p>^^Most parents with oodles of $$ choose to spend it in other ways. </p>
<p>Homeschooling of gifted kids is a big time and money commitment. It has to be the top priority for the whole family.</p>
<p>So.............Why is this news?</p>
<p>The two people I know who went to Harvard were homeschooled. One got into Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Middlebury, UC-Berkeley(with a large scholarship), and Stanford. Haven't there been many studies saying homeschooling works better on average?</p>
<p>Congratulations, Chelsea and Cindi!</p>
<p>Congratulations to this family, which I think is a CC member family.</p>
<p>cgm: Yes, it would appear that this student had the advantage of abundant financial resources to support her education, interests, and activities. But she sure took full advantage of those resources! Harp, Shakespeare, French, and she plans to major in neuroscience. She sounds like an extraordinary young woman.</p>
<p>Now, by my post I don't mean to take away from the accomplishments of the Chelsea(WOW!), but only as a reminder that getting in from any other situation would probably be a bigger surprise than from home-schooling.</p>
<p>She sounds like a remarkable young woman. Congratulations!</p>
<p>Thanks for linking to this article...it's an inspiring story and she sounds like an amazing student.</p>
<p>I thought it was a sweet article!</p>
<p>Best to you, Chelsea!</p>
<p>PS...my son is "gifted" and we homeschooled for three years. We eventually enrolled him in the local public schools. He was accepted at all the schools he applied at, including Stanford.</p>
<p>PSS...the harp is a lovely instrument (I just started lessons!)</p>
<p>She sounds like the real thing - an intellectual, a 'renaissance' woman. Good for her parents to recognize her gifts early -- and being able to fully develop them.</p>
<p>DSC, I think that those who live and die on college admissions knowledge may not be surprised, but the rest of the world probably is. We received flak for partially homeschooling our son for the last few years because people felt it would hurt his chances for elite schools. Even some of the college counselor types I interviewed were circumspect about how likely getting in would be as a result of homeschooling. So, to much of the world, that is news.</p>
<p>I'm impressed with what she and her parents did and how she took advantage of it. Frankly, I'd guess that they spent less than private school tuitions and probably have a lot more to show for it.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>True, she had nailed perfect scores on the SAT and ACT, is the reigning world Irish harp champion, aced all her AP exams and enjoys nothing more than kicking back with the latest copy of Scientific American.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>Holy schmoly! This sounds like a parody of what some on the board will tell you is required to get into HYP...except she's a REAL person! Maybe those posters were right...</p>
<p>Congrats to her and her family!</p>
<p>just don't get why this is news- a privileged family (as it really appears by the article- who has a music room with a grand piano?) was able to give their D the best advantages and she took them</p>
<p>It is nice and all, but in a way rubs me the wrong way- that we are supposed to be uber impressed because someone with so many advantages gets into some amazing schools</p>
<p>I don't think the hoopla is about homeschooling, since the super bright prodigy kids that I've read about (we had one from San Diego in the last 5 years, I think) really can't be serviced by the public schools. They're almost all "homeschooled"--although not homeschooled in the normal sense of mom/dad doing the teaching. The examples I've seen have either had grad student tutors, college prof mentors, etc. or have attended college classes while quite young.</p>
<p>I don't quite get why citygirlsmom has such an issue with the family's perceived financial status. This family obviously did a wonderful job nurturing this girl's special talents -- kudos to them! I think that in this age of "media rooms" dedicated to watching movies and playing video games, it is wonderful to see a "music room". Why all the negativity?</p>