Schooled at Home Children educated away from public schools are finding less hurdles in college
BevK November 26th, 2007
Interesting information in this article on homeschoolers applying to college in Utah. This in particular:
Home-schooled students are asked to have an ACT score of at least 27, if they don’t have a valid GPA, meaning one not standardized by an organization. Some home-schooled students have GPA’s because they are enrolled in programs that provide grades. Scholarships also are more difficult to attain for home-schoolers, with academic scholarships at BYU based on ACT scores. Traditional students are given a half-tuition scholarship with a score of 29. Home-schooled students will be awarded half-tuition scholarships with a score of 31.
This higher score for homeschoolers nonsense is outright discrimination. What it says is that we trust school systems to provide accurate grades but not homeschool parents. This totally ignores grade inflation and other grading problems in public schools. If you don’t believe homeschoolers’ grades are legitimate, fine. How does making other requirements more stringent (requirements that can’t be fudged by either party) be fair?
At UVSC, the requirements aren’t as stringent. Michelle Lundell, UVSC’s associate vice president of student services, said students who have been home-schooled are treated like other students.
What a concept treating homeschoolers like other students. You could ask any disinterested bystander, and they would be most likely to say the first policy was unfair.
