Do most home schooled kids end up in community colleges or not even go to college?

Question

I had a home schooled friend admit to me that her home school diploma isn't worth the paper it's printed on. She has to get an Associate's Degree before she can go towards Bachelors.

Answer 1

Well when you get a diploma though a program that is more or less what you might call a "diploma mill", then it likely wont be worth the paper it's printed on, but in REALITY, most homoeschoolers who homeschool WITHOUT going through a public school or private accredited program do not have diplomas, and top notch universities across the nation realize this, but actively seek out and recruit them anyway.

The diploma means nothing. Colleges and universities don't care about a piece of paper that tells pretty much nothing more than the name of your school and the year you finished attending there. When considering homeschoolers, universities don't want to see diplomas. They want to see TRANSCRIPTS. They want to see what subjects you studied and how well you did based on the grading system you and your parents adopted. They like that homeschoolers tend to study a wider variety of subjects, and often go further in their studies than their peers. They want to see TEST SCORES. They want to see that you've taken the SAT or ACT, and some may like to see that you've taken the SAT II subject tests as well. Statistics show that homeschoolers tend to score very high on these standardized tests, higher even than the average public school score. Colleges like this. They want to see that you've participated in EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES, and lets face it, homeschoolers have an advantage here as they tend to finish a full day's worth of school in half the time, and have much more time for the wide variety of activities available to them through the homeschool organizations, through the community, through national programs, or through local schools. Homeschoolers tend to have highly active and productive social lives and are very involved in their communities. They have the time for it.  Some universities will also ask for a bibliography of books and materials a homeschooler used throughout his or her secondary education. Some may ask for work samples or an interview or an essay, but in genera, homeschoolers have as good a chance (if not much better) of getting into the university of their choice as public schoolers.

Answer 2

No diploma, homeschool or public, is worth more than the paper it's printed on. It's just a piece of paper. A symbol, granted, but just paper.

She probably does not have to get an AD, unless she wants to attend a college that will not accept an transcript from homeschoolers. However, there are hundreds of universities and colleges that do not require that associates degree to work on the bachelors.

Most homeschoolers go to colleges. Many of those that start in community colleges do so at the age of 16, working on both high school and college credits at the same time.

Answer 3

My pastor's son is getting ready to go to the Air Force Academy.  Do you know how hard it is to get in there??