<p>As a homeschooler, what should i do to be accepted to Princeton ED?</p>
<p>Be active in your community so that you can get great recs from non-family non-family-friend sources. Develop a talent. Excel at anything. Make sure your parents give you As :)</p>
<p>einsteingermany - there are many ways to "homeschool". Some homeschoolers use the fact that they are not bound by the constraints of traditional high school to achieve much more than typical applicants to college. They may have very advanced academic backgrounds or exceptional accomplishments of various types. Homeschoolers like that have been very successful in elite college admissions. But they have also followed a large variety of paths that were specific to each them and would not apply to someone else. Other homeschoolers essentially reproduce a traditional high school curriculum using distance learning or CC courses. Those homeschoolers are going to be more like applicants from traditional high schools. Other homeschoolers have have a very constrained curriculum which might correspond to a parochial school with a heavy emphasis on religious instruction rather than college prep.</p>
<p>CC is a great resource for homeschoolers who have general college admissions concerns. However, there are not a lot of homeschoolers who post here, and you seem to have a number of questions that are specific to homeschoolers. You might want to check out some homeschooler forums that deal with college admissions. You'll have to Google for specifics. But I can tell you off the top of my head that there are at least 2 discussion forums on Yahoogroups devoted to homeschoolers interested in the college application process. They are called "homeschool2college" and "hs2coll". You should also contact a few of the colleges you are interested in and see if they have specific requirements or advice for homeschoolers. (for instance, some colleges want homeschoolers to have extra standardized test scores if they do not have many outside grades).</p>
<p>The SAT and SATIIs are critical for homeschoolers.</p>
<p>actually, slipper, if a homeschooler uses their high school years to take advanced college courses, or takes a pile of AP exams, SAT scores won't be very important at all. They'll still have to have them, but their AP scores and grades in their college courses will be much more important. Grades given by parents, not backed up by anything objective, are worthless.</p>
<p>They still are very important, the SAT and especially SATII subject tests are important for any candidate, and moreso home schoolers. AP exams are also critical. Essentially test scores become very important since parents grades are worthless.</p>
<p>SAT I & II scores are required and important for all candidates to colleges which use them heavily. And they are more important for candidates who don't have a lot of other objective stuff than for candidates who do have a lot of other objective stuff. BUT - <strong><em>this does not necessarily separate out according to homeschool vs school status.</em></strong> If you are talking about a homeschooler who has never been measured by any yardstick outside the home, then yes, what you are saying is true. But that does not apply to all homeschoolers, or even a large proportion of homeschoolers. And objective measures may be missing in school kids. SAT scores are going to be a lot more important for a student who attends some little school that ad coms have never heard of,than they are for a "homeschooler" with things like 10 AP scores, or national honors in a well known academic endeaver, or 20 grades from a well-known college.</p>
<p>Sure, they are just as important for that group.</p>
<p>Haven't u heard, Einstein? Homeshoolers are automaticaaly rejected from the Ivy league as they do not review their applications. Generally, Homeschoolers are also viewed as sissies who could not survive at an Ivy. Maybe you should consider one of those lesser schools like Stanford, Duke, or Rice. Those schools give society a bad name and should suit u well.</p>
<p>Good luck and im kidding. You'll do fine.</p>