<p>Would these be viewed the same in the process of college admissions?</p>
<p>bump. 10char</p>
<p>So helpful…</p>
<p>non-accredited schools aren’t always home school. every so often schools get accredited by an inspection by the state. If it seems if the school is satisfactory, the school may get up to a 6 year’s pass, but if it is not, the school will be inspected again really soon. What accredited means is that the diploma is valid. if your high school is not accredited that means your dipolma is worthless.</p>
<p>I didn’t ask if my diploma would be valid. I asked how they would be considered for college admissions.</p>
<p>thats what i mean,
its shouldn’t affect your college admission
the only thing affected should be your dipolma</p>
<p>I can’t imagine that it would be viewed the same. Homeschoolers are graded for the most part by their parents although many also take college courses and on-line courses. In the end, though, they generally submit a transcript typed up by mom. An unaccredited school is still a school with outside verification of grades (teachers) and a transcript prepared by an unbiased administrator (not mom). BTW - I am a homeshooling parent.</p>
<p>Agree with PhotoOp and xkevintang. I don’t think accredited or unaccredited will mean much to college adcoms. Plenty of schools are accredited but are just bad schools. Plenty of new schools spring up and are not yet accredited, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re bad schools. Adcoms will be familiar with some schools (accredited or unaccredited), not others. And they may have information on who’s applied and been admitted from your school (accredited or unaccredited) in the past, and perhaps on how well those past admits did at that college. But mainly they’ll look to see whether you took full advantage of the educational opportunities offered by the school you attend and how you did relative to your peers.</p>
<p>Homeschoolers are a completely different kettle of fish because their curricula are so idiosyncratic. Essentially, each homeschooler is graduating in a cohort of 1, so the usual kinds of comparative judgments adcoms rely on—did this student take the most challenging curriculum available, and how did she do relative to her classmates—just don’t make sense. So the adcoms need to look for other kinds of evidence of academic achievement. (I guess the one qualification to this is that in some states the parents may need to present themselves as an unaccredited private school in order to be able to homeschool legally; but then, as far as adcoms are concerned, it really is a homeschooling situation and should be treated as one).</p>
<p>Okay that makes sense. Thanks.</p>
<p>It depends on the situation. For example, there is an unaccredited Sudbury Valley school where kids have no grades and probably no transcript either (they are basically unschoolers). These kids would most probably be viewed in the same way as any other unschooler applying to college.</p>