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https://cornelladmissions.happyfox.com/kb/article/4-homeschool/
>>Students who have been schooled at home are welcome to apply for admission to Cornell. Without an independent high school transcript, selection committees require additional information to evaluate the depth and variety of a student's experience. Applicants should submit the following for all four years prior to entering college:
1) English: list of books (including textbooks and other anthologies) you have read each year; how many papers and how long (indicate which are creative and which are expository writing); any research papers (list titles and length of each).2) Social Studies: list of textbooks and books you have read each year; how many papers (topics listed) and how long; what independent research projects (titles and length).
3) Foreign Language: list of textbooks you have read each year; list of projects and/or papers; descriptions and dates of visits to other countries.
4) Science: list of textbooks you have used each year (description of topics covered if you did not use a textbook or used only part of the book); list of experiments and/or field trips; any projects or research done (titles and time spent).
5) Mathematics: list of textbooks (covering which topics) you have used each year; any independent projects (titles and time spent).
In addition, applicants should submit transcripts from any college course(s) they have completed, and review our standardized testing policies website.<<
Edited to remove a personal bit
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Oh yes, for the past few years I've wondered if I should have put them in school long ago. Homeschooling high school has been much more challenging than I anticipated. But my youngest is a senior now and whenever I asked if he wanted to go to public school he didn't, and I wasn't about to force it. And I'm fairly confident that if I had put them in school, right about now I'd be saying "I should have kept homeschooling"! So I have to accept that I've done what I could and there were reasons for the decisions we've made, even if some were imperfect.
I have to say it's a relief to hear others sometimes have doubts!
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I've never used the Great Courses so I don't know what they're like. Would this course count for a full high school credit, or half a credit? If we would need to add other materials to make it credit-worthy, any suggestions what to add?
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Anyone have experience with the Great Courses Discrete Math course?
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I am looking for a World History course that is video-based so that my student and I can watch the videos together and discuss them. I'm particularly interested in one focused on modern history.
I see in the Great Courses pinned thread that the Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World is highly recommended, and that looks great, except that I would like to include other parts of the world besides the west.
On the Great Courses website I found A Brief History of the World that does look like it includes a lot about other countries but reviews say the presentation is dry.
I am also looking at Coursera's The Modern World, Parts One and Two, which also seem to focus mostly on the west.
Does anyone have feedback on these, or recommendations for other courses?
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I don't know if I'm ready, but we've started!
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I believe you can choose which scores to send.
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Reported. Poster changed the link in Kendall's original post.
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Is there anything computational she can do for lab work--analyzing data she has collected, modeling the data, that sort of thing? My dd's current lab work involves computational genetics modeling (and she didn't have significant coding experience going in) and she has been able to continue that pretty much uninterrupted (though it does involve Zoom meetings with her PI).
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Can she unschool the semester--spend time doing whatever motivates her?
If she had already chosen a college I might have suggested contacting the professors she would be doing research with to see if there are things she could do ahead of her arrival there, but since she hasn't yet decided and has plenty of time to do so, that might not work at this point.
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I have had to reset my password twice. Yesterday I reset it and it worked for a day and then just now I had to change my password again.
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The above advice may be best, but isn't he already going to a college close to home? Would he have the option of taking his classes remotely from home? Do you know if he could keep his scholarships if he delayed?
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AP Calculus BC: Blue Tent
Physics: Holt homeschool package
Economics: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt homeschool package
Japanese: Genki 2
British & American Literature: homebrewed including Progeny Press poetry study guide
Game development: continuing from last year using book Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development
Driver's Ed: parent-taught, continuing from last year at a rather leisurely pace
Also working on SAT prep and USA Computing Olympiad. Was planning to volunteer as a tutor and may be able to do so remotely. He's also in a swordfighting club but has not been able to attend due to COVID.
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I don't have personal experience with Austin College but since it is one of the "Colleges that Change Lives", it doesn't strike me as problematic and I personally wouldn't worry about the scores. He has a full ride there, it is good in his major, it is close to home so it would be easier for you to support him--those all sound like wins to me.
With your description of the CS dept at Baylor and other factors that have caused him/you to sour on it, I most certainly wouldn't pay more to send him there, especially if he no longer wants to go there.
I don't know anything about Hendrix but from what you have shared before, AC's proximity to home would probably be advantageous.
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13 hours ago, Bootsie said:
I would try searching for "sources of revenue university name" or look for an annual report for the university which contains its financial statements.
That worked, thank you!
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16 hours ago, Bootsie said:
I would look not only at endowment levels but also at the percent of the budget that is tuition driven. Schools that depend heavily on tuition as part of their budget are watching fall registration numbers closely.
Do you have suggestions as to how to find out how much of a college's budget is tuition? I tried to look it up for a college of interest but couldn't find it easily.
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I would run their Net Price Calculators to get an idea of whether their financial aid would be in the range of what you would need.
https://www.austincollege.edu/admission/financial-aid/net-price-calculator/
https://www.southwestern.edu/scholarships-financial-aid/grants-loans/net-price-calculator/
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Christian colleges in Texas besides ACU that give full tuition (but not full ride) for National Merit Finalists are Dallas Baptist University, East Texas Baptist University, and Lubbock Christian University.
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A couple Christian colleges that give full rides (tuition, fees, room, and board) for National Merit are Oklahoma Christian University and Harding University (Arkansas).
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6 hours ago, Roadrunner said:
Frankly if you are worried about her, then I don’t know what the rest of us should be doing. 😋
Truth!
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21 hours ago, Corraleno said:
(1) enroll F/T in CC to maintain NMF eligibility but lose her eligibility for freshman scholarships, or (2) do AP classes and exams (or CLEP) in order to maintain freshman eligibility but give up NMF status.
Corraleno is right, and unfortunately strategy #1 would only maintain eligibility for the smaller scholarships that the National Merit Corporation itself gives out. Most, if not all of the large scholarships given by certain colleges to National Merit Finalists are limited to entering freshmen only. Strategy #2 would eliminate both types of National Merit Scholarships, but would keep options open for other freshman scholarships as long as they don't require a student to begin college the fall after graduation (and I have seen a few that do require this).
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"Students who plan to leave high school a year (or more) early to enroll in college full time usually can participate in the National Merit Scholarship Program if they take the PSAT/NMSQT before they enroll in college. Such students must take the PSAT/NMSQT in either the next-to-last year or the last year they are enrolled in high school.
- Those who take the PSAT/NMSQT in the next-to-last year of high school will be entering the competition for awards to be offered as they are finishing their final high school year.
- Those who take the PSAT/NMSQT in their last year of high school will be entering the competition for awards to be offered as they are completing their first year of college."
Edited to add: It occurred to me that the student would need to be enrolled in college this fall, i.e. right now, in order to maintain National Merit eligibility with strategy #1. So it may be too late for that--it doesn't sound like enrolling in college in the spring semester would count for NM eligibility.
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"Students who plan to leave high school a year (or more) early to enroll in college full time usually can participate in the National Merit Scholarship Program if they take the PSAT/NMSQT before they enroll in college. Such students must take the PSAT/NMSQT in either the next-to-last year or the last year they are enrolled in high school.
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Ok, here's an Inside Higher Ed article that has a link to the PDF I tried to link earlier:
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2019/08/28/college-board-overhauls-adversity-index
I, too, am wondering what they're going to do with homeschooled students as far as the "school score" goes.
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It's not really being dropped--just changed. There will now be two scores on a scale of 1-100, one for the neighborhood and one for the high school, and the scores will be visible to the student.
https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/landscape/comprehensive-data-methodology-overview.pdf
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At the college my dd is starting at next week, there is a difference between how they treat dual credits and AP/CLEP exam credits. Dual credits are automatically transferred when they enroll, whereas they have to "accept" the exam credits, and can choose not to accept some. We learned at her college orientation this summer that her financial aid eligibility would only be good for credits up to 134% of her degree plan. Her degree plan is 120 credits, so she wouldn't be eligible for financial aid after 160 credits, and any credits she brings in count. Dd won't accept 8 of her exam credits at all, and the other 20 she won't accept until the end of her last semester, at which point she may exceed the 160 credits by 1 or 2 credits, but it shouldn't affect her financial aid at that point.
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What Cornell wants from homeschoolers
in The College Board
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I already have a simple book list. This struck me as more than that, and assumes for example that we have the wherewithal to visit other countries for foreign language study. However, I should be able to gather this information from my records. I guess I reacted because I was getting ready to submit my counselor materials and was checking around for anything I had missed when I found this and discovered I wasn't done after all!