<p>I am so worried about my admittance to any college.</p>
<p>I am a junior.
I have been home schooled my entire life.
I have a working student under the UNC-Chapel Hill Equestrian team coach/PE Teacher for the past 5 years.
I have had 2 jobs since I was 15.
I was on my Church's youth Council for 4 years, VP for 1 year.
I've been teaching beginner riding at a summer camp for the past 3 years.
I will be volunteering with a (large-animal) vet this summer and working at a therapeutic riding program.
I am taking classes at a local community college and I've gotten all A's (Biology, Chemistry, intro Sociology, intro Business).</p>
<p>My SAT scores are not great (1700) but I am getting tutoring and feel like I'm improving and will be taking the SAT again in March. My biggest difficulty is math, I am fine with solving equations but taking the word problems and making them equations is difficult for me, I always want to make it more complicated then needed. I LOVE Critical reading and my writing is so so.</p>
<p>I also will be taking the ACT soon and I think I will do better on it than the SAT.</p>
<p>My GPA is currently a 3.7 unweighted but I am trying to bring it up before the end of the year.</p>
<p>The schools I'm looking at are Virginia Intermont, St. Andrews, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State.</p>
<p>What should I work on? What would be good college level classes to take over the summer and this fall at the community college?</p>
<p>let me preface this by saying that i am not familiar with home-schooling situations in the least.</p>
<p>your non-academics are good, and your GPA is good for those schools. i wouldnt worry too much about those.
you do def need to bring the SAT score up.
as far as what classes you should take: make sure that at the very least you’ve finished pre-calculus, it didnt say in your bio what level you’re at now. but pre-calc is a must-have.
also, you didnt mention any foreign language classes, and colleges like to see four years of those.</p>
<p>how about you post what you’ve taken so far?</p>
<p>but by GPA and non-academics, you’re in pretty good shape.
SAT scores need to come up, and you should try to take a couple Subject Tests as well.
classes: need more info.</p>
<p>:)
given that you’re asking for advice as a junior, i’m sure you’ll have things in order in time.</p>
<p>I can chance you for UNC-Chapel Hill and NC state if you give me what state you are from. it will make a big difference.</p>
<p>I am in-state. My mom got her bachelors at NC State and masters at UNC, her father got his bachelors and masters at UNC and regularly donates to the Rams club, if that helps any.</p>
<p>9th Grade -
Physical Science
Algebra I
9th grade English
Spanish I
US History
Elective - Piano</p>
<p>10th Grade -
Biology
Geometry
10th Grade English
Spanish II
World History
Elective - Piano</p>
<p>11th Grade -
Chemistry
Algebra II
11th Grade English
Civics and World Geography
Intro Sociology*
Into Business*</p>
<p>12th Grade (currently planned) -
Pre-Calculus
12th Grade English
Economics
Physics*</p>
<p>*Dual Enrollment</p>
<p>Which Subject tests would you recommend?</p>
<p>Thank you for any input! Let me know if you need any more information.</p>
<p>Are some of these HN/ AP , i’m not familar with homeschool… BUT take sat subject tests for sure- take one in MATH II, i don’t know what the other should be. Are you a URM?</p>
<p>Not a URH - upper-middle class Caucasian. </p>
<p>The classes are not called AP or Honor classes so I guess they are not, But I do not have a choice between classes like in a normal school setting. I have the choice of different curriculums. I am happy to share the names of them. All of my English classes were/are done through online classes.</p>
<p>I know it is harder to gauge a home schooled student but all of my classes are legit, I have a required amount of days that I have to be “in class” just like regular students. I have the normal school assigned lessons/assignments/quiz’s/tests I just don’t do them in a classroom setting.</p>
<p>I really want to chance you, but i don’t know how to?? Is there a board for home-schooled?</p>
<p>There is but it’s not very active…</p>
<p>Try chancing me like a normal student it’s not like it will change reality or anything. :)</p>
<p>UNC- Mid Reach
NC STATE- Match-High Match</p>
<p>This is because of course rigor, that is the way i would’ve chanced you if you were a normal student. BUT it is good that you good courses at community college- these will count a lot more in the admission process since you are home schooled .</p>
<p>Virginia Intermont and St. Andrews you should def get into.
UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State are more of a reach.
i know for a fact that Chapel Hill recommends 4 year of another language (they do only actually require 2), and it’s unusual to not have at least 3. i would STRONGLY suggest you try and take a third year of spanish, if you dont want to jumpright into a spanish 3 course, you could try and take one of the intro classes at the community college: they usually level them differently.
other than that i think you’ve made good choices about what to take, and i think you’d definitely be all set at VI and SAPC.</p>
<p>Country Girl you are right I had forgotten about the 3rd year of Spanish. Technically I took Spanish I in 8th grade then took 3 years to complete Spanish II. I have been taking Spanish since I was in 6th grade and I spent a month in Mexico when I was 14 (mission trip/language study program) but I didn’t think I could apply that since they were done in Middle school. </p>
<p>I was going to take into Spanish at the CC this semester but it ended up be much to below my level to be worth it and I wasn’t able to fit the other classes into my schedule. Hopefully in the fall I’ll take a placement test and take a a higher level of Spanish in the fall (maybe even over the summer?).</p>
<p>If I can fit it in I’d like to also take a psychology class in the fall too.</p>