<p>Okay then, thank you. In that case, you think it would be appropriate for me to include a home-made transcript of courses/activities alongside the transcripts sent by the colleges I've studied at?</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I sound very ignorant, I just don't have any sort of counselor to tell me about these things. :(</p>
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<p>that's what we did. But I don't think there's any "right" way that every one is supposed to do this stuff. You just have to figure out how to present your particular educational experience so that ad coms can get the best picture. Giving them too much stuff means they will select what to look at. Better for you to select and give them a concise enough application that they will look at all of it. It certainly depends on the type of college you are applying to. A small LAC is more likely to look at, and be interested in extra stuff than the colleges (like MIT, Caltech) my son applied to.</p>
<p>If you want to get more opinions on this, there are 2 groups on yahoogroups.com for homeschoolers to discuss college issues. One is called hs2coll, and the other one is homeschool2college.</p>
<p>hi can i take vwt college at home</p>
<p>so are there away i can do that</p>
<p>fids, I think the most important thing for you to do is contact the schools you are interested in and find out specifically what they require from homeschoolers. Some want portfolios, and some absolutely do not want to see them. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that the admissions people are generally swamped when reading applications. You have an advantage as a homeschooler because they have to look at you individually. Be sure you don't squander that advantage by giving them too much to read, or presenting your information in a confusing manner. </p>
<p>My daughter also submitted a master transcript, similar to what texas137 suggested, showing all the work she had done at home, in the community, and from various institutions. Even though she also included official transcripts, her master transcript reflected everything she had done in one document. I don't know how important that was compared with other parts of her application, but she did get accepted to her top choice.</p>
<p>Our daughter applied to the following colleges: Stanford, Cornell, GWSTL, Dartmouth, UMich Ann Arbor, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, Scripps College, CMU, Villanova, U FL, Vanderbilt, Tulane, TCU, NM Tech, UCSD, UOK, UA Fairbanks, Boston U, Whitman, and U of A Tucson. She was rejected at Stanford, waitlisted at GWSTL and accepted by everyone else. </p>
<p>Although offered many scholarships, her best financial aid packages came from those offering full rides to National Merit Scholars such as UFL, UOK, and U of A Tucson. She chose U of A Tucson. I have typed up a financial aid package list to compare the various scholarships offered to her by the above colleges for those who are interested.</p>