We are in California. I will try looking on the University of Delaware's site and see if it tells where their undergrads get into vet school. I looked at UC Davis vet school admission stats, and saw that University of Delaware was accepted once out of the three years I looked at. Probably most people from Delaware aren't wanting to come to California! UCD is daughters top choice vet school, but there are others that are closer to Delaware and might have higher rates of Delaware acceptance. I will look into that.

Thanks, 8, for the website recommendation. I signed up and am looking through. I am doing this completely on my own. My husband is not involved with our homeschool at all. We have no fellow homeschoolers in our area who have done anything but the CC route, except two that got into an almost 100% admission rate school. I see all of you writing about other homeschoolers in your circles who got into this college or that, and I can only imagine the wealth of information that is being shared in these groups. *I* am the one that everyone has started coming to for homeschool advice in the last couple of years, and I have gladly shared all of my hard-earned knowledge and lessons learned. I volunteer like crazy at our church, and am asked to train and advise others who are new to teaching there. It goes on and on. Everyone leans on me. In sum: my life has been give, give, give. And I'm pretty dry at this point. This is our first and only homeschool grad. I have no experience with this, and am coming into it pretty exhausted from some trying years of family deaths and health problems. It is probably the only time I have asked for any help from anyone, so I appreciate and need all the help I can get.

Mama and 8 - Can you tell any of the schools your daughters are applying to? Like you, my daughter's college app choices are somewhat limited, as she is only applying to universities that also have vet schools (with one exception which has a good track record of undergrads getting into vet school). So, while our schools probably wouldn't be the same, I would still be helpful for seeing the whole picture.

We hadn't even begun to consider scholarships either! Probably because UCs don't offer anything but the Reagents Scholarship, and everything else she is applying to is 2nd choice. That said, there are a couple that she is applying for that would not happen without some scholarship money, so thanks, Luckymama, for bringing this up. I will add it to the stack of things that I am buried under.

Is it true that applications aren't due to many of the schools using the Common App until as late as January and February. I just saw these types of dates on Cornell, Texas A & M, Colorado State. Am I missing something? UC applications are due in November.

Would any of you be willing to cut and paste a single course description from your course description document? Something universal like science or history? Quark - did you do it one way for the UCs and another way for the Common App? 8 - Your Russian teacher did 5 or 6 pages???

This is pretty much what I planned on doing, but now I'm wondering if it enough since I read below about the Common App requirements We did look through the Common App this summer, but I didn't look at anything related to the stuff I have to turn in. I'm afraid I'm going to be in for a shock. For the outsourced courses, did you list the instructor and provider after the applicable course, or did you list them on one of the last pages like Quark. I had planned on listing them with each course.

I was going to list the course provider with each course. What info did you put on that second to last page? Also, what do you mean by "sample non-assigned reading list?"

OMG! I hadn't even looked at the Common App yet. We are working on the UC App first. The ideas mentioned in my original post were from an example that Jeannette Webb uses. While I have always been a very confident homeschooler, for whatever reason, I am having a very difficult time with the application process. I can't even imagine what I'm going to come up with for the counselor letter or the school description! On top of it all, our essay situation is a mess with the changes of the UC system to writing four essays this year - it has more complicated and less straightforward to figure out a "vision" for the complete package of essays.

I am starting to work on course descriptions. I have a couple of questions: How many pages long did your document end up? Mine is looking like it is going to be very long. Other than the description of the course itself, the list of texts/materials used, and designating where the course was taken (home, online, etc.), did you include anything else. I have an example that has a bold faced and underlined section of each course entry consisting of "Instruction setting & schedule," Frequency of interaction with instructors," and Frequency of interaction with fellow student.," This looks cumbersome to me. I understand what this is supposed to accomplish, but I think I will leave the first two sections off or combine them into a last paragraph (written as a paragraph and not as info after headings as in the example) of the course description where appropriate. What do you think?

Quark, in the situations you are referring to, did the UCs ask for letters of rec from specific subject areas?

http://www.rosettastone.com/blog/rosetta-stone-earns-university-of-california-a-g-approval/ "We’re happy to announce that the Rosetta Stone Spanish I and II offerings have received A-G approval from the University of California. What this means is that California’s high school students can use those products to fulfill their two-year foreign language graduation requirement." OH, my gosh, this has to be a joke. We purchased all five levels of Rosetta Stone. My daughter, in 7th and 8th grade could blow through a level in two months, doing it twice a week. This is mind boggling! (On a side note: While the later versions of Rosetta Stone were an improvement in terms of speaking because they used voice recognition software that was surprisingly decent, every other aspect of Rosetta Stone, as compared to their version of circa 2005, was very dumbed down.)

Could it have been Jeannette Webb of Aiming Higher Consultants? She lives in Oklahoma.

Speed seems to be a bigger factor with the ACT than with the SAT...

Hi, My daughter took AP French in 10th grade and got a 5. She is quite fluent. I posted something before that might be helpful: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/559413-high-school-french-need-suggestions/ Bonne chance with your French! :)

How did you find out about the seminars? Were they held at a local high school? Thanks!

You are right! I looked on the general UC website and that is what it said. I called UC Davis to make sure, and they confirmed. I can hardly believe it, but I suppose most students know they will get caught if they are not truthful, so the system works. Thank you for the good information :)

Hi, I think you are mistaken on this. They do want a final transcript for July because that will contain senior year final grades. However, I am sure they want a transcript with the initial application. Can you imagine the mess they would have if they made admissions decisions for all applicant based upon student-reported grades and then got the transcripts and found many did not exactly match!

Thank you Arcadia and Sebastian!

It is an online application, but I still have to send a transcript. I wish I could somehow look at a transcript from a local high school! I'm not concerned about the transcript when it comes to the private universities she will be applying to, but her number one choice is a UC school, so I want to give them exactly what they want, the way they want it. Thanks for the recap of the important dates! Good to have them all together!

Anyone want to save my head of hair? I'm about ready to pull it all out! I just finished preparing a transcript that listed her courses by category, i.e. Science, Math, Language Arts, etc. When I finished I was trying to decide whether to include weighted GPA as well, so went to look at the UC site and saw that they only count grades 10-12 for GPA! I guess I now have to redo the transcript and list courses by grade? Also saw this for calculating weighted GPA: In addition, UC calculates a weighted GPA limited to 4 years of honors courses with no more than 2 years of 10th grade honors courses. In other words, for a semester calendar, which many U.S. schools use, 8 semesters of honors points with no more than 4 semesters of honors points from courses completed in the 10th grade. Whaaattttt? :banghead:

I was putting it on the very bottom of the transcript. You know, I really didn't think it belonged there either, but I saw it on an example and thought I would fit it in because, like most homeschoolers, my daughter has a good amount of hours. I'll leave it off unless someone else posts something convincing.

I am going to include one line on my daughters transcript, below test scores, that reads: Volunteer Service Hours: XXX Through what date should I count those hours? Should I add what she has so far along with the hours projected for her senior year (all will stay the same rate), should I cut it off at junior year, or should I cut it at a certain month of her senior year?

I'm working on a transcript too. In my opinion, this doesn't go on the transcript. These programs would be perfect to add to your son's resume, listing them in the Common App Activities section.

Anyone whose child was accepted into a UC who can share the format of their high school transcript? Thanks!!!