<p>I was talking about this with my friend the other day. Assuming that you were a non-athlete who had great standardized test scores and a likable personality, wouldn't it be a good strategic move to just write your own transcript and claim to have been home-schooled?</p>
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had great standardized test scores and a likable personality, wouldn't it be a good strategic move to just write your own transcript and claim to have been home-schooled?
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if you had a good personality, you wouldn't lie. So my guess is that people with good personalities never do that.</p>
<p>And people don't get great standardized test scores without having an academic background to prepare them for it.</p>
<p>Gotta work on those critical thinking skills!</p>
<p>What are you going to do for recomendations? BTW, many HSing parents write the counselor letter themselves, explaining the HSing process. </p>
<p>It is just a really bad idea to lie so blatently on your college aps.</p>
<p>Some colleges ask for an approval letter from their county / district, proving they're registered homeschoolers, so I imagine it's been done in the past.</p>
<p>The ones my dd's applying to have also asked for a course description list, asking for texts used, right down to the table of contents for each book -- that would be hard to do, if you don't have all the books on hand.</p>
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<p>Not true. I have a 3.40, but a 2320 SAT and 35 ACT.</p>
<p>Believe me, I am homeschooled and I have a more honest education at home than in many high schools. We all know of the cheating that goes on in American classrooms. How would I know? I went to high school for a couple of classes and that was enough for me. Most kids who homeschool want to learn, not just get a good transcript. I do however believe that there are some homeschoolers who never learn anything but they do not go on to college.</p>
<p>"Not true. I have a 3.40, but a 2320 SAT and 35 ACT."</p>
<p>If you have a 3.40 then you have an academic background, meaning of course that you have studied appropriate courses to prepare you to take and do well on a standardized test - your GPA really doesn't matter that much. </p>
<p>The gist is that someone can't fake knowing Algebra 2 - either they do or they don't.</p>
<p>It is very hard to forge a transcript for home school because colleges want it sent directly from the home schooling agency.</p>
<p>well, that isnt true. We are not part of a HSing agency. The transcript will come from us. I am using the same format some of my HSing buddies used for their kids. One is at MIT and another at Caltech.</p>
<p>You want to pretend to be a homeschooler because you have bad grades at high school?</p>
<p>This is one of the saddest questions I've ever seen. I really think that anyone who was so desperate to be accepted into a college that they would invent four years of faux homeschool high school must be under an incredible amount of pressure. There are plenty of colleges in the world where one with good standardized test scores and a likable personality would be accepted, even with less than stellar grades. But obviously a compulsive liar with no morals does not have a great personality.</p>
<p>I remember reading somewhere that if you lie to a college about acceptance into their college and they find out, they could/will kick you out of school or invalidate the degree you got if you already finished. SO....I would never recommend doing something like that. I don't think that this question should even be thought about because it is just asking for trouble. Liars do not have a great personality.</p>
<p>You'll also have to give up your high school extracurriculars, and your SAT/AP reports will probably also say the name of your high school.</p>
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Remember the (true) story about the girl who murdered her mother? Harvard kicked her out, not because she was a murderer, but because she lied about being a murderer. Lying to a college is a bad idea. Besides, getting back on topic, it's next to impossible to fake being a homeschooler.
In some states, though, the parents are the homeschooling agency.</p>
<p>when I applied I didn't need any "proof" of anything at all. they did say they liked book titles, but they didn't need specific information about the book. and we definitely don't have homeschooling "agencies" in this area.</p>