<p>Ok guys, i live in colombia, im currently fifteen and im at tenth grade and i would like to study in a USA college, but my school is kinda different from the others, there are no classes, just work and work, i just turn on my computer and start working on it, i really dont like that method and i dont think it would help me to get into a usa college.</p>
<p>So i dont know if change to a regular high school with homeworks, tests and classes or start homeschooling.</p>
<p>Im just the average student but i really want to get into a top college but i hate my school.</p>
<p>On the other hand if i change to a regular high school i still would be obligated to study other things in my house because "the colombian education" isn't the best.</p>
<p>Also im scarred of the thing that being homeschooled and being an international student dont let me enter into a usa college.</p>
<p>PS: Sorry for my english i'm still working on it.</p>
<p>I read some of your other posts and see that your school system is crummy, and that you want to go here to “something like Caltech or Stanford”.<br>
If your school system is crummy, then do you think another school would be much better than your current one? </p>
<p>I don’t know the laws of homeschooling in Columbia, or about you. If you started homeschooling, would you have the maturity to do it without even the grades you’re getting from your current school? How do you see homeschooling as different from your current school? There are many MANY ways to do homeschooling (at least with US laws), and one of those ways that a lot of people use is pretty much as you describe your current school above. You have to be self-directed enough to keep doing the work and figure out for yourself what corrections are needed. </p>
<p>There are certainly more interesting ways to homeschool, but that is the easiest one to put together. Do you have the money for outside classes or the ability to get to other opportunities? Are your parents willing and able to devote a lot of time to your homeschooling?</p>
<p>If you end up trading your current method for homeschooling, you’ll still be teaching yourself everything but you won’t have the grades to prove it, so you’ll absolutely need to take the SAT 2, CLEP, or AP tests to show what you know. You need to have letters of recommendation from outside your family - if you’re not in school where will you get them? Do you know your current teachers well enough that they could write letters for you?</p>
<p>Another note - there are hundreds of excellent schools in the US. You don’t have to limit yourself to just the top 20 schools that you’ve heard of.</p>
<p>Yeah i agree with everything, now that you say that i need recommendation letters i must be in a school ok thats right, but still i don<code>t know if it would be better to get into a regular school or to stay in mine, i really don</code>t like that system at all.</p>
<p>And yeah of course there are a lot of good schools there in the USA i just putted on the best ones for making an idea of applying to them.</p>
<p>Well, you DON’T have to be in a school to get a letter of recommendation; you just have to be working with adults in some capacity. Typically schools want letters from a math or science teacher and from a humanities teacher, but many homeschoolers find other people who can write for them. My son took classes with his homeschooling, so he had “normal” teacher recs.</p>
<p>And as for which school - do you think a normal one will be better, or are you just hoping it will?</p>
<p>It’s with all the other required information - check the school’s web site or the CommonApp.org web site and you can find out. Most schools have similar but not identical requirements - SAT or AP tests, recommendations, transcripts, and one or a few essays. search for
<school name=“”> admissions</school></p>
<p>Ok thanks for the recommendation, now if i keep in my school that would be like homeschooling but in a way i dislike, so i prefer doing it in the way i like (in my house with books and internet), but there’s one question, Start homeschooling or going to a school, maybe for the college admissions it would be better the school but i really don’t know, also there are two years left.</p>
<p>Ok now i already left my school and i really want to start homeschooling (there are two years left) my only doubt are the college admissions, in almost all the admissions that i have seen requires high school grades and teacher recommendation (i could get some but<br>
not from teachers).</p>
<p>So the other option would be joining a school but the education in my country (colombia) and specially my city is very weak, no clubs, no AP or honors classes so i still should be studying in home because the school education isn’t enough.</p>
Many schools have a web page talking about homeschool requirements. Look at the schools of interest for “homeschool” or “home school” or in the admissions section under a title like “special circumstances” or something. The Common Application has a homeschool supplement, which is a pain to do but easy enough to find and deal with.</p>
<p>KEEP TRACK OF WHAT YOU DO so you will be able to put it on the transcript you create.</p>
<p>Ok, what it’s in my mind is joining a club (International Park of Creativity) it’s not the best thing but it will help specially when it comes to lab work, also it have contests and that stuff</p>
<p>And if i keep track of everything that i’m studying like writing everything that i’m currently studying i can submit that as a “high school transcript”?</p>
<p>And i was searching on University of Chicago and they got no “Homeschooling Tab” but i saw
an article of someone that got into that university being homeschooled. </p>
<p>You’re better off showing your uniqueness by the contents of the transcript, not the form. You want the transcript to look more-or-less like other transcripts so they don’t spend all their alotted time deciphering it.</p>
<p>And for UChicago, you just didn’t try hard enough. Click Admissions & Aid along the top, then “How to apply” in the text, then Homeschoolers on the left.</p>
<p>Now i found it very easy with that transcript, with that i can keep track of everything that i learn and it will count like a high school transcript for a lot of universities.</p>
<p>Edit: I found a post here saying something about Keystone Online High School, it looks well to me, what about that?</p>
<p>And if you ask for my resources i have a lot of books about all the different subjects and i also plan to study with the MIT OCW Courses.</p>