Home is where the smart is
BevK January 15th, 2007
College admissions for homeschoolers. One homeschool graduates says it all for homeschoolers looking at potential colleges, “They’re so open to home-schoolers here,” she said. “No one looks down on me, or treats me different. It’s very accepting.”http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/01/15/news/life/127118.txt
After years of skepticism, even mistrust, many college officials now realize it’s in their best interest to seek out home-schoolers, said Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.
“There was a tendency to kind of dismiss home schooling as inherently less rigorous,” he said. “The attitude of the admissions profession could have at best been described as skeptical.”
Home-schooled students - whose numbers in this country range from an estimated 1.1 million to as high as 2 million - often come to college equipped with the skills necessary to succeed in higher education, said Regina Morin, admissions director of Columbia College.
Such assets include intellectual curiosity, independent study habits and critical thinking skills, she said.
“It’s one of the fastest-growing college pools in the nation,” she said. “And they tend to be some of the best prepared.”
