What colleges/universities have the homeschoolers whom you PERSONALLY know gotten into?

Question

I hear the same canned answer about "every school" accepting homeschoolers--but I don't believe it. I know the state university where I teach takes them--but we'll accept just about anyone who draws breath. Where do homeschoolers REALLY get in? State schools? Bob Jones University?

Answer 1

So far, I only know one person who's applied to college but he was accepted in to Fordham's theater department.

A friend of mine is only 14 but is a complete computer whiz. He's done some programs at Princeton and MIT has its eye on him.

Regrettably as of right now, I can't give specifics since my peer group is too young. Also, a lot of kids transfer in to high school and breeze through it.

Answer 2

Off the top of my head...

Here: ANU, Adelaide, CDU, CSU, Southern Cross, Wollongong, Newcastle, Monash, Macquarie, Central Qld, Western Australia, Curtin, NSW, RMIT, James Cook and the ACU.

Overseas: Waikato, Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Oxford, Edinburgh, Bristol, Aberdeen, Imperial College (London), Dublin, Cork, Strasbourg, Paris, Columbia, Harvard, Chicago, Bullawayo, Jo'berg and Makerere.

Answer 3

I used to work at Oberlin College's admissions office and I know we admitted one or two during my time there.  I'm also fairly certain some of my classmates at Oberlin said they were home schooled - not tons, but more than one.  There are definitely some hoops to jump through (interview with an admissions counselor required, for example) and it helped quite a bit if they'd taken some standardized tests.

Answer 4

To add to Terri's list (we live in OK, so the kids go to several of the regional schools):

Oral Roberts University (many kids - this is near us, so a lot of kids go there)

OSU

OU

NSU

Tulsa University

Patrick Henry

Baylor

Military academies

Honestly, I don't ask the name for several of the kids...my son is middle school, and he's just not in that peer group yet.  I have several friends whose kids are going to universities out of state (not state schools), in Missouri, Arkansas, Colorado, California (plenty of their kids are in the UC system and private colleges), Texas, Minnesota, and Michigan.  Can I name all the schools?  Nope...but I do know that many of their kids qualified among the top percentages of the schools they attend, and their grades are excellent.

And there are plenty of kids going to state schools around here.  Some of the state schools here have excellent pre-med programs and such, along with teaching hospitals.  Why shouldn't they go there?

Answer 5

This website http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hms... has a list of colleges that have actually admitted homeschoolers. There are over 1000 listed, and that list is seven years old, so who knows how many additional universities have been added. Be sure to click on the links for subgroups, there are many that aren't listed on the main page, such as Harvard, Columbia, etc.

Personally, I must belong to the same groups as the other Okies, because I know homeschoolers who have gotten into the same universities, OU, OSU, UCO, OCU, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, SMU, University of Colorado, NorthEastern....

Answer 6

I homeschooled, then went to a local community college (where a LOT of my homeschool friends also went), and now I go to a large state college.  I have a 4.0 GPA in college (on a 4.0 scale).

Answer 7

Personally? by name? Actually have their family in the rolodex and send Christmas cards and stuff, in addition to merely drawing breath?

University of Tulsa

Texas A&M

Texas Tech

University of Texas at Austin (and Dallas, and Arlington)

University of Oklahoma

Oklahoma State University

Baylor

Southwestern

Texas Woman's University

University of North Texas

Evangel

SMU

That is not including the dozens and dozens and dozens that chose community college while still working on their highschool credits.

Answer 8

so do you think the ability or inability of a handful of home schoolers here to answer this question affirmatively is proof of anything?

my personal experience is irrelevant. and why is my accquaintence with such students the yardstick for validity?

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The Wall Street Journal, in a May 10, 1994 article, confirmed that many colleges are adjusting their admissions policies to home schoolers:

Many colleges now routinely accept home-schooled students, who typically present “portfolios” of their work instead of transcripts. Each year Harvard University takes up to 10 applicants who have had some home schooling. “In general, those kids do just fine,” says David Illingsworth, senior admissions officer. He adds that the number of applications and inquiries from home schoolers is “definitely increasing.”

Answer 9

One of the ways to check home-school acceptance at smaller schools is to look at the athlete profiles. Homeschoolers swim a lot, so DIV 2 or 3 swim teams may show a few, which gives you an idea that they have an openness to accepting them. When my son was looking at colleges, we went to 17 open houses,  and every one we went to had a home-school coordinator for their admissions staff. They mostly list those on the admissions portion of their websites. We're in the North-East, so maybe it's different, but I was surprised how recruited he was.

Homeschoolers I know personally, from his graduating class , were accepted to Goucher College, Penn State, McDaniel College, Guilford College, Iona College, Kenyon College, Springfield College, and Drew University, not to mention several state colleges and universities and countless community colleges.

Completely homeschooled, he was offered a scholarship for more, annually, than my first house cost.

Answer 10

Our Home Schoolers Union was college oriented, and we had students accepted to every state university in Missouri as well as Berkley, Virginia Tech, and UCLA.  There were also a number of students accepted to private institutions.  Bob Jones University actually accepts home-schoolers eagerly - in part because they publish their own home-school curriculum.  

As for not accepting the canned answer - we had recruiters from Berkley, Cornell and MIT all speak with our groups in person, and a number of other recruiters actively solicit applications from our group.  So really, any school!!

To justify this answer however, I have to tell you that the Union has been in existance since 1986 and has produced over 80% B.S. GRADUATION rates as well as 9 PhD's and over three dozen graduate degrees.  The youngest to attend college from our union was only 14, and the reason so many students attended in-state Universities was because they routinely began before they were old enough to leave home.  

We had to take the same entrance examinations as everyone else did, but we tended to do much better than our regional average.  This may not be consistant nationwide, but this particular group found no limits.  Ivy League was eager to have us, and we attended State and Private institutions as well.

Answer 11

I'm quite curious why you don't believe "every school" accepts homeschoolers.  College admissions like to have a varied student population, homeschool is an advantage that way.  But, I digress...

Harvard

Cornell

Case Western Reserve

Baldwin Wallace

Kent State

Cleveland State

Cuyahoga Community College

That's all I can think of homeschoolers that I personally know have gone to college.

Answer 12

Homeschoolers REALLY do get in almost everywhere, its well documented.

In just the past couple years we know students who have gone to:

Auburn

Alabama

Birmingham-Southern

AUM

Huntingdon

Faulkner

I actually can't think of a single college or university in our state that doesn't accept homeschoolers. The same is true all over the country.

Just fyi, heres a few lists of schools that accept homeschoolers:

http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hms...

http://www.homeschooltexas.com/FAQs/coll...

http://www.homeschoolfriendlycolleges.co...

Answer 13

Let's see... Kennesaw State University, Berry College, Shorter College, Georgia State, Bryan College (baseball scholarship), Georgia Highlands College, Northwestern College, Ashbury College, Bob Jones University, Oglethorpe

University, Emory College, Brown U. and Temple U. just to name a few.

Homeschoolers have two options... accredited and unaccredited.  This is the same option for private schools, foreign students and even some public schools that might have lost accreditation. Don't think that all schools have just "homeschool" rules.. they have others that attend that would be admitted under the same alternative track.

The vast majority of colleges have alternative admissions for unaccredited programs. I have yet to see one that didn't have that option, but there is always a chance.

I have seen a recent trend at homeschool conventions to be filled with colleges seeking homeschoolers.

Oh, I don't know them personally, but here is YALE and HARVARD too...

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/vi...

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?r...

Answer 14

I have a friend whose homeschool-graduate son is currently attending MIT (yes, THAT MIT).

Answer 15

I don't think most home schoolers go to traditional colleges or public universities. What's the difference between 12th grade at a public high school, and first year at a public university? Not much.  Whatever made them stay away from public high schools, will make them stay away from colleges. Otherwise, their homeschooling would have been much ado about nothing. They probably continue their education by taking online classes.

Answer 16

My children are still a bit young to know many homeschoolers of college age, however, I did post this quite some time ago and you may find it interesting.



2% of Princeton's Freshman class are homeschoolers

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archive...

Of the accepted students, 59 percent are from public schools, 30 percent private, nine percent religiously based and two percent were home-schooled.

There are about 1,300 kids in this class

There were 18,891 applicants. This is currently the record for number of applicants to Princeton in a year.

Answer 17

Yes, I personally know homeschooled students who have gone to college including UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Naval Academy, and West Point. Many colleges and university have programs to enlist homeschooled students UC Riverside, for example. Check the web site of each of the military academies, you will find instructions for home educated students. NCAA has eligibility requirements for homeschoolers. You might find this web site http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hms... useful as well.

I'm really interested in why you would question the fact that homeschooler can and do attend colleges and university. In my 25 years in the homeschool world, questions like yours come from a negative experience with a homeschooled student.

Just as there are "bad" traditionally educated students, there are "bad" homeschoolers. Please don't judge all of them on the minority.

Answer 18

I was homeschooled from 4th grade clear through highschool. Through the summer I took college classes online, and I just recently transfered and am now attending a university.

Answer 19

University of Phoenix

Answer 20

I live in Alberta. I PERSONALLY know a girl who homeschooled (no diploma) who got into Athabasca University and then the University of Alberta. I know a boy who is attending a local college. I know yet another boy who took college classes while finishing his high school diploma (while he was living in the US; that double enrollment thing isn't allowed here) and is currently attending a different local college than the one mentioned above. Our universities make no special provisions for homeschoolers. They frankly don't care where you schooled. They just want to see your marks either for specific courses as needed or your SAT scores.

It's not true that every school will accept because we did have some admissions officer from some small college in here and s/he said they would NEVER accept a homeschooled student. However, from what I've been hearing from US parents whose kids have gone onto college, it's really not a problem. I have yet to know one online whose child was turned away from a college because s/he was homeschooled. Harvard certainly has no problem accepting them!

Answer 21

PERSONALLY:

UMKC

MU

Virginia Tech

KU

Military academies

MIT

and thats about all...but my peer group is kinda young