I posted another question about college/ post grad admission if you want to help me with that. I don’t know if I’m asking questions in the right places so forgive me!
I’m a homeschooler and its not like hippie homeschooling, my mom has her doctorate of education and is working on her phd and she takes my schooling very serious. I went to private school for freshman year but continued with homeschooling. When I went to the private school I got one B in Biology the second quarter ( C on the mid term and it showed on the transcript which is what pulled down my A) and a B in alg2 on the 3rd quarter but I pulled up to an A the end of the year. that year I applied to Deerfield and Andover (not knowing much about boarding schools at all) and I got wait listed for Andover and rejected from Deerfield. I was really embarrassed because my mom called Deerfield and asked the lady I interviewed with about the decision. My mom said the lady told her it was very competitive that year and that students applied with all A’s and I had flaws in my grades or something like that. I wasn’t sure if that was %100 it or if they didn’t like me? I thought I did pretty well at my interviews the woman like walked out with me to my mom and was talking about her niece who played piano as well and about how I would love the music program. So I don’t know if I really just wasn’t what they wanted or if it was solely my grades. So I continued with homeschooling but the major underlying issue is that I have always been on my own with my education my mom was always focused with hers and I had to do pretty much all of the applications my self and even had to do most of the parent part for my mom. So I really did not like being home that year and tried to apply again however it was late and I tried other schools and a lot of them said they were already full or full for girls or over enrolled and everything so I missed that year now I was a junior.
Sadly the same thing happened I just figured I would continue with homeschooling since I was already a junior but then I started second guessing everything because I was a homeschooler and wanted to go to a top school for college I was afraid that being a homeschooler it was questionable and it would jeopardize my chances. but this was later and again it was past the application deadlines. I took alg 2 freshman year and am taking college courses so I’m more adv. and the less competitive boarding schools wouldn’t have to course load for me to continue. but of course all of the top boarding schools were far more selective.
So this is my senior year that I am going into. I know not a lot of schools accept just seniors or have a post grad program. I retook my freshman year the year I went to private school, so for my transcript my mom only included my homeschooling years making this my senior yr. I am so sorry this question is so long but I’m trying to explain the situation! The thing is when I applied to Deerfield and and Andover they had my transcript from the private school so I don’t want to apply again with the same since they didn’t seem to be impressed but I can’t NOT mention the private school if I apply again since they already had an application from me. and there are of course other schools but I am too embarrassed to call now asking if they have space for this fall since I kind of did that before. And I could make this a retake year for my junior year and apply for a senior year but I’m not sure how many schools would just take a senior? I kind of wanted to do two years at a boarding school anyway since I didn’t really get to go to high school… I was one year ahead so my age would actually be fine if I went into this year as a junior or senior.
so a few questions.
can I apply to a school I got rejected from already?
is it gauche to call a school late in the year asking if they have space if I already asked in a previous year?
can you suggest something for me to help me? My mom is not helpful at all
Hang in there dude!