<p>Can this be done to minimize paperwork sent? D's course descriptions and reading lists are quite long. Some schools have asked for examples of work as well. I'm wondering if admissions staff would bother to view it.</p>
<p>The admissions staff should have instructions about how to send supplemental materials (which may be "don't") on the college website. The course descriptions are probably WAY too detailed if they take up that many pages. Have you looked around at what level of detail the Common Application </p>
<p>is looking for from homeschoolers? That might provide a clue about what issues are most important to admission committees.</p>
<p>I think I would contact the colleges and ask before sending a CD. I suspect that some smaller colleges might be willing to receive such a format, but that most large ones would not want an unusual presentation, because it would just be more work for them.</p>
<p>My kids have a mix of homeschooled course work and classes taken in a few different places (high school, college, cc). In my course descriptions I only detailed those taken outside an institution, and I included reading lists, etc. It's a little long in some subjects, but with 11 pt. font and some efficient formatting it is both easy to read and doesn't go on and on and on. The whole package was actually a lot less bulky than I'd thought it was going to be. And the Homeschool Supp to the Common App gives a place to put it all in context. Personally, I would go with some editing, making the descriptions pithy, the reading lists well-formated and most relevant, and then just stick with paper. It seems like the system is used to dealing with paper. I'd save CDs for things like music auditions and the like.</p>
<p>But that's just my opinion, based on not much of anything.</p>