Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 3:33PM
Universities Admission Policies for Homeschool Students
July 2020
University of Oregon (Eugene, OR and Public) Requirements For Homeschooled Applicants
https://admissions.uoregon.edu/other-applicants/homeschooled
Homeschooled students must meet the following admission requirements:
Complete either the old SAT with a minimum score of 1040 for critical reading and mathematics combined, the new SAT with a total score of 1120, or the ACT and a minimum score of 22.
Take the SAT Subject Tests in Math I or II, and a second test of your choice in a subject other than math. Earn a minimum score of 470 on each of the two tests, with a total score of at least 940.
Demonstrate second language proficiency.
Complete the application for admission, including the 650-word maximum essay as well as the following information specific to homeschooled students:
In the "High School" section of the online application, complete only three fields: mark the "Homeschooled" checkbox and the high school code 99HOME, then enter the date that you will complete your homeschool studies.
In the college-preparatory courses section, click "continue" to skip this section.
Attach a statement of personal circumstances that explains that you were homeschooled and that you will complete the admission requirements by providing official score reports for the SAT or ACT and for the SAT Subject Tests.
Oregon State University (Corvallis, OR and Public) Admission Policy for Graduates of Non-standard or Unaccredited High Schools, Home-Schooled Students and GED Recipients
Graduates of non-standard or unaccredited high schools, or home-schooled students will be considered for admission based on a holistic assessment using the following:
SAT and/or ACT
OSU requires students graduating high school in the year 2013 and beyond to submit SAT or ACT scores. OSU does not require the essay portion of the new SAT test that began being administered in March 2016.
Note: Only scores sent electronically from College Board (SAT) and/or ACT will be considered official and used for admission purposes. There is not an advantage to pay extra for "rush" scores from the testing agency, and in some cases may add to the time it will take to process the scores within our office.
The SAT college code for Oregon State University is 4586.
The ACT college code for Oregon State University is 3482.
Note that OSU has adopted a test-optional admission policy for new students entering in Fall 2021 and beyond. While we recommend that home-school students provide test scores, they will not be required. Learn more.
SAT subject tests
OSU requires students graduating from non-regionally accredited high schools and home-schooled students to provide scores from two SAT subject tests (Math I or II, and a second exam of the student’s choice).
Students who have 12 or more completed college credits in core subject areas (Math, Writing/English, Science) while pursuing their high school diploma will be considered as an alternative to the two SAT subject tests.
Note that OSU has adopted a test-optional admission policy for new students entering in Fall 2021 and beyond. Learn more.
Insight Resume
OSU seeks to look beyond grades and test scores to determine if applicants bring the necessary skills and abilities to be successful here. Your answers to the Insight Resume, which is part of the OSU application for admission, provides us with:
Understanding of you as a unique, contributing individual.
Your accomplishments, perspectives, experiences, and talents.
Your achievements within the context of your social and personal circumstances.
Participation in activities that develop academic, intellectual, and leadership abilities.
Students applying for Fall 2021 and beyond will be asked to supply an essay and personal statement responses in lieu of the Insight Resume. More details to come in Summer 2020.
Additional Factors
Oregon State is also looking for students who will lend educational and cultural diversity to our campus. We are looking for students who go above and beyond the minimum whether in talent, academic ability or potential. Combined with academic strengths, evidence of these characteristics may be considered in our review of applicants for admission.
Applicants who are ineligible to re-enroll at any college or university that they attended within the last seven years for student conduct reasons will be automatically declined admission at OSU. Applicants who are unable to re-enroll at a previous college or university for academic reasons will be considered for admission only if they meet OSU’s minimum academic requirements.
Please note that academic performance is not the sole criterion for admission to the university. The university may evaluate a person's behavior and background to determine their ability to maintain the standards of academic and professional conduct expected at the university. An evaluation may take into consideration current behavior and performance as well as past experiences and actions.
GED students will be considered for admission if they achieve an average GED score of at least:
58, if taken prior to January 2002, with no subtest score less than 41
580, if taken between January 2002 and December 2013, with no subtest score less than 410
680 (total from 4 subject tests), if taken in January 2014 or later, with no subtest score less than 150
Students who take the GED test in the 1996-97 school year and later must pass two years of the same foreign language prior to admission. Foreign language taken at an unaccredited high school does not qualify. Additional ways to meet OSU's foreign language requirement.
Non-cognitive skills and abilities demonstrated via a GED applicant’s Insight Resume (see above) are also considered in making admission decisions.
Applicants admitted on the basis of GED scores are not required to submit SAT or ACT scores, but scores may be considered if available.
University of Portland (Portland, OR and Private) Homeschool Students Admission Policy
https://www.up.edu/admissions/faqs/admissions-questions/homeschool.html
Homeschool Students
Category: Admissions Questions
I am homeschooled. What do I need to know?
Complete the application criteria like any other applicant: an application, an official transcript, SAT and/or ACT scores, and a letter of recommendation. For a home-school transcript to be considered official, it must list each individual course taken throughout your high school program (up through your application submission), it must provide a letter grade (A – F) for each completed class (including those taken at a high school or community college) and it must be signed and dated by the primary educator. The letter of recommendation for a home school student must come from a non-related adult with whom the student has had significant interaction (coaches, clergy, scout and other youth leaders, employers, etc.).
Stanford Undergraduate Admission-Freshman Application Requirements
Guidelines for Home-Schooled Applicants
Home-schooled students, like all other students seeking undergraduate admission to Stanford, apply using the Coalition Application or the Common Application. These additional guidelines may be helpful as you complete your application.
Academic Record
We expect that you have successfully undertaken a serious, rigorous course of study distributed across the humanities, sciences, math, social studies and languages. In addition to a transcript, we encourage you to submit a detailed description of your curriculum, but it is not necessary to follow a prescribed or approved home-schooling program. We are interested in how you have gone about the learning process, not how many courses you have completed.
In particular, we would like to understand:
how and why your family chose home schooling
how your learning process was organized
what benefits accrued
what, if any, choices you had to make to accomplish this type of education
Please note: A high school diploma or the equivalent is required in order to enroll at Stanford. We accept any high school diploma recognized by your state.
Standardized Testing
The ACT or SAT is the only exam required for the Stanford application; however, we welcome SAT Subject Test, AP and/or IB exam scores from home-schooled students as an additional measure of academic preparation.
Letters of Recommendation
We require three letters of recommendation: two from teachers of the student's choice and one from a secondary school counselor. While a parent may write a letter in place of a secondary school counselor, we prefer that teacher recommendation letters come from external instructors who have taught the student in an academic setting. For example, a community college professor.
Updated on December 19, 2019 12:22 PM
Harvard University Homeschool Admissions Policy
https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/apply/first-year-applicants/application-requirements
Each applicant to Harvard College is considered with great care and homeschooled applicants are treated the same as all other applicants. There is no special process, but all relevant information about your educational and personal background is welcome. In addition to the application, all applicants are required to submit standardized tests, a transcript (you may create your own), and recommendations. If the application fee presents a hardship for your family, simply request a fee waiver.
Hear from Harvard students who were homeschooled, in the Harvard Gazette article ‘Homeschooled en route to Harvard.’
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/three-harvard-students-on-lessons-of-homeschooling/
Caltech Homeschooled Applicants
https://www.admissions.caltech.edu/apply/first-year-freshman-applicants/homeschooled-applicants
Parents and students often ask our Admissions Counselors how we evaluate homeschooled students. As with all our applicants from any educational background, we rely on context to evaluate and assess our students' applications; all applicants are evaluated within the context of their educational system and experience. Since this is true for homeschooled students as well as any other student, the Admissions Committee does not require any additional components for homeschooled applicants. Here are a few tips to help homeschooled candidates present the strongest possible application:
Understanding Your Homeschooling Experience
Homeschooled students come to Caltech with a wide variety of experiences. It is important that you help us understand how your school experience has been structured. We see students from the following circumstances:
Students whose education has been entirely home-based, with instruction carried out by parents;
Students who connect with other homeschooling resources in their community, with shared instruction;
Students who use formal homeschooling curricula or who take the majority of courses through an online homeschooling organization;
Students who take some courses in a traditional high school;
Students who take some or all of their junior- and senior-year courses in a college;
And many combinations of the above. Regardless of how your homeschool education has been structured, you need to be certain that it will be clear to the admissions committee.
Curriculum and Performance
The required high school preparation for Caltech is the same for students of all academic backgrounds. In particular, it is important that you demonstrate that you have completed at least one full year each of rigorous courses in calculus, physics, and chemistry, all with a high level of achievement. Depending on your experience and the transcript that you present, it may be necessary for you to attach additional explanations of your coursework. If you are unable to provide an evaluation of your academic work that allows for a comparison of your level of achievement to a cohort of other students, you may want to consider taking Advanced Placement Exams or additional SAT Subject Tests to show your mastery of material.
Counselor and Teacher Evaluations
The person involved in your education who most closely approximates the role of a college counselor or principal should complete your secondary-school counselor report. In some cases this will be a parent. We require recommendations from a math or science teacher and from a humanities or social science teacher. Again, these recommendations may come from parents if they have been your sole instructors in these disciplines. If you have taken courses at a high school or college, you should feel free to choose from these instructors as well. If all of your instructors have been parents, we strongly recommend that you seek out an additional recommendation from someone you know who can describe your ability to do demanding college-level academic work.
Extracurricular Activities
Our advice regarding the presentation of extracurricular activities is the same as the advice that we would give any other applicant. You should think broadly about how you spend your time outside of academics. List activities like sports, music, summer programs, community service, and whatever else you spend time doing. You might even think about how you spend time with your friends. We are trying to understand how you might be involved in our community. Here again, you may want to include an additional explanation of anything that you think might not be understandable to the admissions committee.
MIT Admissions
Homeschooled applicants by Matt McGann ‘00 Admissions Officer at MIT for ten years.
Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.
September 5, 2006
I’ve been promising an entry specifically for homeschooled applicants and other interested parties for a long time now; this is an early version of something that will eventually be posted as official content on the MIT Admissions homepage. That page will launch soon, and I’d recommend bookmarking that page, and not this entry. But this should get the ball rolling a bit, I hope.
MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students, and these students are successful and vibrant members of our community.
Over the past 5-10 years, we have seen a surge in homeschooled applicants. Homeschooled applicants still make up less than 1% of our applicant pool, and homeschooled students corresponding still make up less than 1% of our student body, but these numbers are growing. These students come from urban, rural, and suburban neighborhoods; they have been schooled in the home and under the umbrella of larger communities; some have been granted a formal high school diploma, while others were not. Please note that we do not require a high school diploma or GED from our applicants.
At MIT, we do not have separate requirements for homeschooled applicants. Homeschooled applicants, like all of our applicants, are considered within their context, which includes schooling choice, family situation, geographic, location, resources, opportunities, and challenges. However, we do have some tips for homeschooled students, based on successful applicants we have admitted in the past.
One quality that we look for in all of our applicants is evidence of having taken initiative, showing an entrepreneurial spirit, taking full advantage of opportunities. Many of our admitted homeschooled applicants have really shined in this area. These students truly take advantage of their less constrained educational environment to take on exciting projects, go in depth in topics that excite them, create new opportunities for themselves and others, and more.
The vast majority of our admitted homeschool students have taken advantage of advanced classes outside the homeschool setting, such as through a local college or an online school such as EPGY. Transcripts of these courses, in addition to evaluation of the homeschooling portfolio, are very helpful. Some students will also take advantage of MIT’s OpenCourseWare.
Most of our homeschooled students have taken advantage of extracurricular activities and community groups, such as community orchestras and theater, athletics groups, scouting, religious groups, volunteer work, work for pay, etc. Our homeschooled applicants, like all of our students, are active in their communities.
Many (but certainly not all) of our homeschooled students have been active in summer programs. For some students, summer programs (see some recommended examples in this entry; some programs I have frequently seen in homeschooled applicants include CTY, TIP, PROMYS, MathCamp, RSI, Tanglewood, and Interlochen, among many others) are a great opportunity to work with other students from diverse backgrounds in a collaborative manner. Summer program mentors and job supervisors can also be great choices to write college recommendations.
Extra recommendations can be especially helpful for many homeschooled applicants. We welcome a recommendation from a parent, but require at least three recommendations in total (usually a counselor and two teachers). We encourage you to submit additional recommendations (but don’t submit more than 5 total recommendations) from those who know you well, such as coaches, mentors, job supervisors, clergy, etc.
MIT has alumni volunteers called Educational Counselors throughout the world who conduct interviews on behalf of MIT Admissions. We strongly encourage all of our applicants to take advantage of the interview, if available.
I hope this is somewhat helpful to those of you in the homeschool community. I’m happy to take questions on this topic as well.
Yale
https://admissions.yale.edu/home-schooled-applicants
Home-schooled Applicants
Home-schooled applicants complete the same application as other students and must fulfill the same testing requirements. Because home-schooled students may lack standard measures of academic performance, they must try to provide comparable information in different ways. Here are a few suggestions for home-schoolers as they approach the application process:
Testing
Standardized test scores hold relatively more weight for home-schooled applicants. While SAT Subject Tests are not required for admission to Yale, if you are a home-schooler and you feel confident about your ability to do well on the exams, you might want to consider taking a number of SAT Subject Tests in order to demonstrate your abilities in various areas.
Letters of Recommendation
We require letters of recommendation for home-schooled applicants, including two from academic teachers and one from the ‘school counselor.’ Please do not present letters written only by your parents. We need additional objective evaluations from educators who have interacted with you - perhaps a teacher from a course you took at a local college, someone who has mentored you in a tutorial, the local librarian with whom you’ve discussed books over the years, someone in whose lab you have done research, etc. Letters from an online instructor are acceptable but can be difficult to evaluate, as the teacher often has not had direct contact with the student.
Strength of Program
We will look closely at the list of subjects pursued through your high school program, but as with any applicant, we do not specify the number of years you must spend on any particular subject. We look for strength in all the major disciplines across the high school curriculum. Many home-schooled students pursue some course work at a local college or high school and we are happy to consider grades and recommendations from those sources as well.
Personal Qualities
We look for evidence of social maturity from all our applicants and especially from home-schooled students. Your personal statement, interests and activities, and letters of recommendation should speak to your ability to integrate well with other students and tell us about your non-academic interests.
University of Florida (Gainesville and Public University and Gators and 56,000 students)
https://ufonline.ufl.edu/admissions/homeschooled-students/
Homeschooled Students
As a homeschooled student, applying to UF may seem like a daunting task. But you’re not alone. We’re here to help. Plenty of homeschooled students have applied to and been admitted to UF. With a little forethought and planning, your application can be highly competitive. The key to this success is a plan. Here are some tips and advice for homeschool students.
KNOW THE ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS
UF looks for a strong, academically challenging senior schedule. Advanced Placement and Dual Enrollment classes are particularly encouraged as they help to prepare students for higher education. You should be able to validate secondary learning outcomes in English, mathematics, science, social studies and a foreign language. More specifically minimum admission requirements to UF include the following 16 academic units:
4 English
4 Math
3 Science
3 Social Science
2 Foreign Language (same language)
PREPARE YOUR ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
Mastery of the of the 5 subject areas listed above is usually demonstrated by an official school transcript. The transcript should contain a list courses attempted, a measure of performance (traditionally course grades), and a validation of mastery or learning outcomes (usually expressed as “credit earned”). If your transcript is not accredited by an agency recognized by UF, then you will be asked to provide evidence of mastery of learning outcomes through means other than, or in addition to, the transcript. There are three alternative ways to demonstrate mastery:
SAT Subject tests (Validation in English is accomplished with SAT Writing or ACT with Writing. Students planning to use SAT Subject Tests should present results from the Math Level 2 test.)
Courses completed and graded through Florida Virtual School
Coursework from an accredited community college or university recognized by UF
CREATE A TIMELINE FOR REQUIRED EXAMS
Depending on an applicant’s academic background, there may be multiple test requirements.
ACT or SAT. One of these tests is required for all incoming freshman. UF accepts both and has no preference. There is no limit on the number of times a student may take the tests and the writing sections are no longer required.
SAT Subject Matter Tests. While homeschool transcripts are accepted, SAT subject tests are required to demonstrate proficiency in all subject matter areas, unless the student has taken 2 or more classes in those subjects from a regionally accredited entity. A student can only take two SAT subject tests at a time and it can take several weeks for UF to receive the official scores, so it is critical to have a plan for taking these tests if needed.
IT’S NEVER TOO EARLY TO START
From the 9th grade forward, begin keeping a log or journal of activities, involvement, participation and awards. It is easy to forget what happened last month, much less two years ago.
Share your passion, goals and dream. The power of the Gator Nation is rooted in the passion of its students and alumni. We want to know what makes you unique and how you are going to change the world. There is no magic formula for the personal statement. We want insights into you.
WE TAKE A HOLISTIC APPROACH
While academic credentials are important, UF looks at non-academic pursuits and accomplishments as well.
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