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Upcoming Southern Ontario Homeschooling Conferences

Just a quick reminder to start planning for conference season. I’ll be giving two seminars (Ontario University Admissions for Home Schoolers and Standardized Test Prep) at each of the following conferences:

Saturday, April 5 – Kitchener Waterloo Christian Home Educators’ Conference

Friday/Saturday, April 25/26 – Ontario Christian Home Educators’ Convention

Saturday, May 3 – O.F.T.P. Diversity in Education Conference

This will be my fourth year of presenting the University Admissions seminar around the province at conferences as well as smaller venues. While it’s not exactly old news, if you’ve seen it before, should you attend again? Here’s how to decide:

• The basic format/content of the presentation is the same. I’ll discuss any news and updates since last year, but essentially the purpose of the seminar is the same: describe the ins and outs of applying to university as a homeschooler.
• I recommend this presentation for families who have (ideally) 3 – 4 years before they need to go through the application process. This allows you to plan your high school studies with the university application in mind. However, if you’re currently going through the process of applying of university, you’ll probably have a lot of questions personal to your specific situation that you never would have had when you were in the general “finding out about the process” stage. I’m perfectly happy to answer these very specific questions in the seminar as well, since these “case studies” can be very informative for the group. So you may wish to attend again if the process is more “real” to you this time. But *please* remember that this is a general information session and the rest of the audience wants to walk away with more than the details of your situation.
• A good part of the session will be answering audience questions, so I never know what I’m going to be hit with, and you never know what you’re going to learn! (Don’t worry — I know how to keep things on topic and relevant to the group.) If you felt that you benefited from the Q&A portions of the session last time you attended, then you may be interested in what pops up this time.

Most of you have never seen the Standardized Tests for University Admission seminar, since it has only been presented once before (KWCHEA 2007 Conference). What can you expect to see here?

• Disscussion of the following standardized tests: SAT, ACT, SAT subject tests, AP (Advanced Placement) and CLEP exams. We will not be discussing the GED, CAT or IB programs because these are not generally used in university admissions for homeschoolers. Some post-secondary schools will have provisions for using other test results, but the “big five” are the ones accepted/recognized (to varying degrees) by all Ontario universities.
• How to choose the testing program that works for your situation including sample test questions
• Test prep strategies and resources
• We will not be discussing university admission in general. This seminar is solely for information about the standardized test path to university entrance.

If your child plans to present standardized test scores for university admission, I would strongly suggest attending this session. Canadians are generally ill-informed on these options because the SAT isn’t a normal part of the Canadian high school experience.

Hope to see you in April or May! Get your questions ready, and feel free to submit any questions to me ahead of time that you’d like to see answered.

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