Homeschool College Application
Homeschool College application process is a little bit different. Homeschoolers need to be assertive and explain with great detail the educational accomplishments and goals on the college application.
Homeschool College Application
Homeschool College Application Tips. It's Dr. Bernstein, the president and founder of Getting Yourself Into College, and in today's video, I want to provide you with some really important tips about how to take advantage of the competitive advantage that homeschooling can give you in the college admissions process, so stay tuned. These tips are invaluable for 9th-12th graders . . . not merely those of you who are starting to put together your application parcels. If you're applicable only to college use the Common Application, you have to complete the Homeschool Supervisor Report, which requires sharing any informed about your" homeschool suffer and environmental issues that you believe would be helpful to the reader" and by that they mean details about your" educational doctrine," your" motivation for homeschooling," the" instructional fixed," and other such things.
Describe You Motivation
Now clearly this is part of the homeschool college application that a mother or other homeschool superintendent should fill out. However, it's really important for you--the student--to be able to describe your own educational doctrine, your own motivation for homeschooling, and how you've optimized your learning experiences and your own growth through this form of education . . . that actually does give you apart from many other applicants. As the admissions squad at MIT point out that their" acknowledged homeschooled applicants has definitely shined" when it is necessary to taking the initiative and taking advantage" of their less held educational surrounding to take on exciting projects, go in depth in topics that agitate them, make new opportunities for themselves and others, and more ." These are some very compelling reasons set out above colleges--not merely MIT--but colleges, in general, are intrigued by homeschooled students.
But as I pointed out a moment ago, you have to be able to provide admissions officers with insight into your learning process, into your attribute, into your experiences, into your perspectives. You can't--and shouldn't--just rely on your transcript and the Homeschool Supervisor Report to do these things. It won't study. Colleges are admitting you--not your parents, not your Homeschool Supervisor. So they want to know about these things from YOU. So I want to give you some tips to assist you to get started. I always think it's most important to start with yourself and not with the homeschool college application.
You want your entire application package to rise out yourself rather than trying to build yourself conform to it. Okay . . . My first recommendation is to set aside some time to write about the educational philosophy advising your homeschooling suffer. Don't get overwhelmed by the phrase" educational doctrine ." Just should be considered the style you have approached discovering throughout high school. You might be in Stanford University's Online High School or participating in Oak Meadow's innovative homeschool program. Or you are able to be using school curricula like the Charlotte Mason technique or Classical Speeches. You might even be unschooling or create an eclectic mixture of educational methods.
How do you approach learning in your homeschool surrounding? I want you to describe to someone who isn't familiar with this approach. For instance, if you use the Charlotte Mason technique, describe that technique in your own words. Are you mainly analyze textbooks, writing a few articles, and then taking tests? Or are you taking a more eclectic approaching to learning? Simply describe it as fully and vividly as you can. You might want to merely see yourself in the course of the coming week or so as you analyze and is currently working on projects and think about how you're approaching your heart. My second recommendation is to write about why you wanted to homeschool. Envision if you are able to shed light on how homeschooling was a good fit for your discovering style--your hear penchants. For instance, one of my homeschooled students is a very creative person who is also academically endowed. She really likes being able to delve profoundly into whatever she surveys and is always itching to take innovative approaches to her projects, and in her school district this just wasn't something that could be accommodated, so she decided to pursue homeschooling.
Don't merely "tell" the facts. I want you to start showing--illuminating your experiences, perspectives, and motivations for homeschooling by sharing anecdotes. So the student I was just telling you about . . . started her process by creating a really detailed, vivid anecdote about a time--during her last year in public school--when she had a really interesting theory for research projects but wasn't allowed to pursue it in her paper. She wrote it in a style that allowed readers to" see" her--and feel like they were in her mind. Now clearly you do not want to be bashing traditional academies. The focus should mainly be on you. So that lesson was her "before." Her "after" story was about a specific project she worked while homeschooling. If she used this in her application package, she might get rid of the "before" story in her admissions paper, but this approach actually helped her get clear about her motivations for homeschooling and get her creative juices pumping.
My third recommendation is connected with the second largest one. I want you to describe how your homeschooling has helped you pursue your interests in exciting lanes. So you are able to want to describe one or a few special projects that you've worked on and how these projects have allowed "you've got to" delve profoundly into topics that agitate you. Again, description is essential. You want to share external and internal details. My fourth recommendation is to describe your actual hear surrounding. I mean the physical surrounding in which you read. There is a Common App essay topic that allows you to write about a home or surrounding where you experience perfectly content. You are given the opportunity to come up with an astounding essay about your intellectual surrounding. So let's say that you're originally from San Francisco, but you've been living in Bali with your parents who move a yoga retreat middle there and you've been pursuing your high school education through homeschooling.
You might want to describe you hear spaces. Where do you read and study? Most kids in traditional academics, wake up in the morning, have breakfast, and go to a building--a school--to read. But maybe you wake up in the morning, have some breakfast, and go to a yurt to read. Maybe you spend an hour each day discovering traditional Balinese dance. Then, later on, you go back to your room, where you get on the computer to engage in online deliberations with other students in your literature class. So let yourself describe your discovering spaces as vividly as you can and equilibrium the external details with the internal ones.
Why is this kind of surrounding conducive to your discovering process? How did you make such an environment? This could be really interesting. And you can definitely merely zoom in one particular aspect of the environment. You don't have to describe everything. So those are my four tips to get you started writing about your homeschool suffer in lanes that will ultimately help you provide admissions officers with meaningful, interesting insight into your special form of education.
Closing
If you want to learn more about attaining the most of your homeschooling suffer in your college application package, manager over to my website getyourselfintocollege.com and click on the "HOMESCHOOL TAB" on the menu bar...that's where you can get free access to a special presentation that I've created especially for homeschooled students. So that's it for now. Take care. Bye !.
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