Transfering Mess

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<p>This is my first post so I apologize if anything I ask has been asked before. I haven't exactly gotten the search feature down yet. </p>

<p>A bit of background on me:
I was home schooled for high school through a correspondence program, which has yet to finish grading my things and let me graduate. I've been enrolled in community college for two concurrent semesters while "attending" my correspondence high school program. I have maintained a 3.0-3.2 GPA in HS as well as a 4.0 in my community college classes. </p>

<p>The colleges I am looking at are:</p>

<p>Hollins University (my safety)
Georgetown University (hello, dream school)
The College of William & Mary (in-state tuition? yes plz!)
Duke University & Johns Hopkins University (I'm curious about them, not so much gung-ho on attending)</p>

<p>I would like to know the pre-reqs for Georgetown. I would love to get into SFS (as would anyone!) as an International Politics major with the concentration in Foreign Policy. I'll kick and scream my way in there if it kills me!</p>

<p>(Eventually, I want to go to med school but lets tackle one giant dream at a time, shall we?)</p>

<p>My questions to you wonderful people are as follows:</p>

<p>1) When I finish my correspondence high school program, should I just apply to Georgetown as a freshman? Or would it be wise to finish my Associates at CC & build up my academic record? (I'll finish in Spring of '10 if that matters)</p>

<p>2) Are their any pre-reqs for Georgetown? I looked all over that website and kept getting an error page when I looked up anything to do with transfers.</p>

<p>3) Any other general advice about anything concerning any of the schools I mentioned?</p>

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<p>Your situation is a bit out of the ordinary, so you should take your questions directly to the admissions offices at Georgetown and the other colleges/universities you are interested in. Many colleges and universities (I don’t know if Georgetown is among them) will admit students who have not graduated from High School but who have shown clear academic preparedness for college-level work. It looks to me like you could fall into that category.</p>

<p>If you click on “Discussion Home” in the upper left of this screen, you will get to the full list of forums. Scroll down to find the Home Schooling forum. It is almost at the bottom of the page. The folks there may have some useful suggestions for you.</p>

<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the advice!</p>

<p>I’ve been worried that my home school status would affect my chances of getting in the colleges of my choice, it was the reason I went to community college while still in “high school” in the first place; to show that I am academically prepared for college level work. My degree from my correspondence school is a college prep degree but we all know how much good that does these days.</p>

<p>I’ll definitely do what you suggested. I only live 3 hours from Washington, D.C so making the trip to admissions won’t be too much of a problem =)</p>