Incredible Experiences Around the World! And now, back to school at 21 - but how??!!

Applying to College
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I am a non-traditional student if there ever was one.

My high school days went like this: 9th grade at a public school, then switch to home school mostly due to a death in the family (public school did not allow grief/restricted me). 10-12th grade were spent traveling and learning and growing in amazing ways. Even between traveling I took college courses on campus and did a prestigious internship. I am on the board of a national foundation and was doing charitable work in south america, asia, etc. I ended up loving Asian lifestyle and haved lived in the Indian subcontinent for roughly 4 years.

I also have learned a lot of languages by traveling. Yes, fully fluent. I am fluent in 6 languages plus learning 1 more.

Now I am looking at applying to some top schools, but I don’t know the best way to do it. I just got back from abroad where I had no internet access to find that schools have a 1/1/17 deadline for the fall semester. I can work hard and get applications in, but my main problem is that I took the SAT 6 years ago at a young age and did very good but not excellent. And no subject tests or ACT.

Now my question is how should I apply for undergrad? Do I apply later after a well-studied go at the SATs and other standardized tests? Or apply now with no subject tests and my very old SAT score?

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Hi! I can somewhat relate to your circumstances seeing as how I switched from public school to homeschooling in the middle of my 10th grade year. The traveling not so much.

To answer your questions (or at least try to!), I know for a fact that SAT scores are not valid after a certain amount of years. I can’t say specifically but you should definitely check it out because I wouldnt want you to be let down all because of test scores. Personally, I will be taking a gap year between high school and college (I also found out about application deadlines late). The only thing is… I’m taking my gap year to gain exactly what you have learned during your high school years! A gap year for work was my only option due to financial reasons and whatnot so I don’t know if it will work for you but it definitely wouldnt hurt to check it out (you can apply as an undergraduate still even after a gap year). It gives you precious time to fully study and take your SAT and standardized tests AND also lets you perfect college applications.

I hope this helped you!