Colleges Covet Home-Schooled Students
BevK November 11th, 2006
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/55434.aspx
The school’s admissions standards for home-schooled students are identical to those for traditional graduates - minus the formal transcript requirement. Some colleges and universities, though, continue to require home-schoolers to earn a GED high-school equivalency diploma or take subject-specific SAT tests along with the standard requirements. At Stanford, sympathetic admissions officers have helped make the university a beacon for high-achieving home-schoolers. The support can be seen on the Stanford admissions office’s Web site. "The central issue for us is the manner in which you have gone about the learning process, not how many hurdles you have jumped," the office advises home-schooled students. "We look for a clear sense of intellectual growth and a quest for knowledge in all of our applicants." Jon Reider, a former senior associate admissions director at Stanford, said the school’s pursuit of home-schoolers fits its academic and social mission. He also acknowledged that Stanford and other schools now realize that home-school students are a prominent enough population that can only be ignored at a university’s own peril.
