Right now, I put my volunteer positions separately under "Board Membership" and "Long Term Volunteer Positions." The Long Term Positions included teaching Religious Education classes and leading a Homeschool Speech and Presentation group. Now I'm wondering whether I should weave these into the body of my resume and leave only the "Board Membership" positions under a separate heading. A friends husband has offered to help me, but he wants me to organize my resume with a Summary first, where I list personal strengths along with associated accomplishments in bullets, followed by jobs I've held. He wants to eliminate the homeschool section and include mentoring, curriculum building, etc in the summary, and including something on mentoring later but says he needs to see how it looks. He is a project manager and sees a lot of resumes, but obviously he hasn't ever worked with a homeschooler and I worry about eliminating the huge period of time. However, it seems you did a version of what he is suggesting and you have an awesome job now. Do you happen to have a teaching credential? I don't want to get my hopes up about working in the education area if the lack of teaching credential is always going to hold me back...

I used to read and post here when my daughter was in middle school and high school. She has since earned her undergraduate degree and is currently in her second year of vet school at UC Davis. Since her high school graduation, I have continued doing volunteer work, but most of it is no longer satisfying and I have developed a huge desire to be PAID for the work that I do. Unfortunately, I am struggling with how to professionally include my homeschool years in my resume, and am hoping the collective hive mind has some experience and guidance in this area. I have a BS in MIS, am currently on the board of directors for three different small non-profits, participate in Toastmasters, but haven't had full-time paid employment for the last 25 years. Sure would appreciate any advice!

She took APUSH from PA Homeschoolers. We did a mixture of AP Euro at home and with tutoring from Meredith Noah in the month before the exam. I think AP Euro is really doable at home as long as you know how to write the essays, especially the synthesis essay. You have to understand what is being looked for in the essays - that is really important.

Hi, My daughter also took it as a sophomore, but agree with what Lisa said about doing it as a Freshman. My daughter didn't do any other biology in high school after AP Bio. She did AP Chemistry and APES. However, she IS doing a lot of biology now since she's a sophomore pre-vet student. 🙂

My daughter only ended up taking two exams of the four AP courses she took her senior year. The ones she didn't take, AP Chemistry and AP Calculus, were courses that she knew she would want to take again at the university level since she is a science major. So, it largely depends on whether the courses are required for their intended major. Of course, you don't have to take the credit for them, so if your child loves taking the AP exams - go for it! 😁

The Richard Ladd book has sample questions by section and was very helpful!

If you are going to move to Europe for part of the school year, do AP Euro! What a wonderful opportunity! If you are worried about which order to take them, my daughter did AP Euro first, then APUSH and got 5s in both, so obviously didn't make any difference.

You could try using Campbell's Biology along with Mastering Biology. Then download the AP Biology Lab manual from AP Central and do all of the labs. Another excellent resource is Bozeman Science podcasts. My daughter took the course four years ago from Terri Kanner at PA Homeschoolers and got a 5 on the exam.

I think for most of the schools we were applying to, the UCs, it did. In a pre-applications meeting with two UC admissions reps, their standard thought for homeschoolers was to go to community college and then transfer. It wasn't until they heard that she had taken AP courses and exams, scoring 5s, that they changed their advice. The exact quote from one of them was "You are not like the usual homeschoolers..." I think a LOT depends upon where you are applying. That's why i said, it was the nature of the game for US. It doesn't apply to everyone, but I should think it doesn't hurt. Also want to add to the part in which I said the reason we didn't drop AP Lit was for the transcript. That is only partially true. It was also because UC Davis gave her AP credit for both AP Lang and AP Lit, which meant she only had to take one of the three required English courses.