<p>Any homeschoolers or home schooling parents have experience with any of the following colleges? Are they receptive to homeschoolers? Detailed comments will be much appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>Carleton College
Colby College
Colorado College
Georgetown University
Lafayette College
Macalester College
Trinity College
University of Notre Dame
Wesleyan University
Williams College</p>
<p>We applied to Williams and Lafayette who both accepted my son.
Lafayette is very receptive of homeschoolers and they offer academic scholarships:)</p>
<p>Notre Dame requires homeschool applicants to take 3 SAT IIs: science, history, and foreign language. Not great, but they used to require either 5 or 6, so it's progress, anyway.</p>
<p>My son applied to Carleton and Williams and was accepted to both.</p>
<p>Thanks. </p>
<p>So Notre Dame isn't receptive to homeschoolers?</p>
<p>All I know about Notre Dame and homeschoolers is in my previous post. I haven't heard from anybody who has applied so I can't report that experience.</p>
<p>You could always try talking to them and see what you think.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if it was Colorado College or U of Colorado (I get the 2 mixed up, but I'll check my notes), but one of them told me they would NOT accept my son's cc credits!</p>
<p>not accepting CC credits does not necessarily mean that a school is unfriendly about admitting homeschoolers. A number of colleges (Harvard is one) have a policy against giving credit for college work done in high school, but still look for students who have challenged themselves by doing it. If you want to spend 4 years at your final college, the credit does not matter, only placement. If you want to graduate as quickly as possible, the university most likely to take all of a student's CC credit would be the state schools that the CC routinely feeds into.</p>
<p>My homeschooled daughter was rejected at Georgetown in spite of having a 1540 SAT, 34 ACT, 4.0 GPA (including over 50 hrs. of CC credits), and excellent recommendations and ECs. However, I don't know if being a homeschooler had anything to do with it. In light of the fact that they've booted the evangelical groups off campus, her religious activities may have been more of a negative factor in their eyes than her schooling.</p>
<p>Hmm. How about atheists? Does Georgetown boot them off too?</p>
<p>I have no way of knowing, of course, but my hunch is Georgetown would have more trouble with the supposed politics of evangelical home schoolers than they would their religion. Georgetown tends to get characterized as more secular and not as interested as Notre Dame, for instance, in placing emphasis on its Catholicism. I don't think either place would have any problem with an applicant who wasn't religious.</p>