Senior Year-public high school? or homeschool?

Pre-College Issues Home Schooling and College
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<p>Hi, I am in a dilemma of whether I should continue homeschooling or go back to a public high school for my senior year. I have only been homeschooling the second semester of my junior year because of family problems. Okay, so these are the advatanges and disadvantages of both views:
Homeschooling
- Advantages: more time to study for the sat and act (retaking them in fall), get to commit more on my nonprofit organization that I created with my friends, get to continue with my work/job, have the opportunity to self-write my transcript (good thing about this is that I don't need to follow the grading system rule of the school I used to go), can take more college classes, may get to work on a research
- Disadvantage: less time for socializing (no prom.), lower acceptance rate? to highly selective colleges such as Brown and Stanford, vague academic information, more weight on standardized test scores, I will only have one leadership position then (executive director of a nonprofit org), hard to get rec letters </p>

<p>Public High School
-Advantages: socializing (imp. for my nonprofit as well), get to have a CLASS RANK (I was ranked in the top 5 back when I attended high school. This is the main reason why I'm thinking to go back), better preparation for future AP exams, more rigorous academic schedule, don't need to pay for homeschooling programs anymore, may get more leadership positions, detailed counselor rec letter (she knows me VERY well. If I continue to homeschool, she won't be the one who will be in charge of my counselor rec), less weight on SAT and ACT
-Disadvantages: less time to study for SAT and ACT, have to reduce my shifts for work, less time to work on my college applications, have to take speech (a required regular class) through online</p>

<p>I'll appreciate your thoughts and sorry for making the post lengthy! Oh, another option I have is to go back to a public school for the first semester of my senior year and then homeschool the second semester so that I can work on a research! </p>

<p>Btw, these are some of the top tier schools that I will be applying to:
Brown (first choice)
Duke
Stanford
Johns Hopkins
UCLA
UC Berkeley
UChicago</p>

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<p>Not going to tell you what to do, just some more points to consider.</p>

<p>Are your family problems sorted out? </p>

<p>I don’t think home schoolers have a lower chance of getting into top colleges, all things being equal. It depends what you you do with your opportunities. I know many home schoolers who have gotten into many top colleges. I’d think college classes and research would be very good.</p>

<p>The point isn’t to collect lots of leadership positions, but to make the ones you have count. So one exec director of a non-profit, with lots you can say about it, is better than that being just a stable of four leadership positions that you can’t say much about.</p>

<p>Would you get to slide right back into your class’s ranking system if you went back?</p>

<p>Speech is always a helpful thing to take. :)</p>

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<p>I agree with GeekMom.</p>

<p>Also, are you sure your class rank will be the same or will they not even let you particapte in the Class Ranking because you havent been in school the entire time?</p>

<p>Remember, Homeschooled kids who dont have twins/triplets are always Vals!!!</p>