<p>I have been attending community college, and I am just about to complete my second semester and have done fairly well. I have a 3.85 GPA for my first semester, which has allowed me to join Phi Theta Kappa, but I still feel as though my background will impose limits upon my transfer options. </p>
<p>I am currently 28 years old, and I was home schooled. As a result of my not attending a conventional school, I posess a high school diploma with no further transcripts of any kind. Essentially, I entered my local CC in order to transfer to a local school in the SUNY system. However, my academic interests; including things like ancient east asian history and literature, are not strong points of this school. What I really want to know is whether higher level schools; schools which offer what I'm looking for, accept people like me. I feel that my experience in life, while not the usual, is a unique one which could be an asset if presented properly. I don't have unrealistic expectations, but I am curious.</p>
<p>Certainly they do. I think there is a homeschool sub-forum here on cc? People there will have lots of knowledge and experience of how you can best present yourself in terms of the home school years.</p>
<p>If there is not such a subforum, there are very knowledgeable folks on the Parent Forum. If you start a thread there with Home School in the title, you will get good advice.</p>
<p>You might want to look into the Asian studies program at SUNY New Paltz. It is a very liberal and diverse school that would probabaly be open to non traditional students.</p>
<p>I actually took the SAT and ACT exams in 1998, so I'm not sure if they are still of any value. Cornell seems to accept a lot of CC transfers in contrast to their peers, so I wonder how they view non traditional CC transfers. I am also aware of the Eli Whitney program at Yale, but it seems that schools of that caliber have these non traditional programs for the purpose of admitting people with extraordinary life experience; such as self made millionaires, or that man who was in the Taliban. I really don't have life experience in the above sense, and the vanishingly small number who get in to Yale through the Eli Whitney program seem to eliminate it for all but the very few.</p>
<p>To get to the Homeschool sub forum, click on "Discussion Home" in the upper left of this screen, and then scroll down through the list of forums. It is near the bottom.</p>