Home school university admissions – Washington Post article
There’s not always a lot of news on the Canadian front, but it’s helpful to know that university admission counselors are speaking out in favour of home schooled applicants in the US. I’ve taken our a few key excerpts that are relevant to university admissions in the article below. (Link to the entire article follows at the bottom.)
Giving Proper Credit To Home-Schooled: With Applications From Nontraditional Students Rising, More Universities Are Revamping Evaluation Methods
Michael Alison Chandler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 11, 2007; Page B01
Colleges are finding ways to adapt to the growing market. Eighty-three percent had formal policies for evaluating the home-schooled in 2004, up from 52 percent in 2000, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Many rely on standardized tests.
At William and Mary, home-school applications have increased from 49 to 67 in the past two years. The college has a designated home-school admissions counselor, who advises applicants to supplement the regular SAT reasoning test with SAT subject tests. The counselor also encourages having a nonrelative write a recommendation.
Former Stanford University admissions counselor Jon Reider, one of the first to draft an admissions policy for home-schoolers, said such applicants often stood out for their maturity.
“There were things these home-schoolers had,” Reider said. “A certain amount of responsibility. They were in charge of their learning process. They were impatient with normal assignments and reading lists.”
When Reider left Stanford seven years ago, he said there were 36 home-school applications. This year, the university counted 104.
The entire article can be found here: Giving Proper Credit to Homeschooled.
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