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As far as I can tell you don't need an official transcript from an accredited school to get into college. We are homeschooling our kids and what I've read is th
by guidoism 3y ago
As far as I can tell you don't need an official transcript from an accredited school to get into college. We are homeschooling our kids and what I've read is that homeschoolers write their own transcript, the kids themselves write it, and they describe what they've accomplished and learned during their schooling career and admission depts in colleges tend to favor these kids over traditionally schooled kids.
I'm guessing that a traditionally schooled kid could just do the same. Especially since there's so much that they are probably learning outside of school. It would be a shame to ignore all of those skills and knowledge just because they weren't taught during the hours of 8 and 3, M-F.
- gnicholas 3y agoI'd be interested to learn more about this. Where can I find data on how admissions depts view homeschooled kids versus other kids?
- guidoism 3y agoI’m just now starting to really look into this since our eldest is now twelve years old. We do unschooling if our home, which is a form of self-directed education, so my focus has been on those experiences. Here’s an research paper about Grown Unschoolers experiences with higher education, page 38 discusses admissions: https://www.othereducation.org/index.php/OE/article/view/105/334 https://www.othereducation.org/index.php/OE/article/view/105... And here’s a reddit thread about homeschoolers getting into Purdue (which is the school I went to): https://www.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/bszc3i/have_any_homeschoolers_on_this_sub_gotten_into/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Purdue/comments/bszc3i/have_any_hom... I’m assuming that each school is going to have their own criteria.