Comments on: College Application Overview for Homeschoolers: Recommendations http://www.matthewktabor.com/2007/09/24/college-application-overview-for-homeschoolers-recommendations/ In Education for the Aughts, Matthew K. Tabor discusses issues in K-12 and higher education. He examines: college, law school & medical school admissions; NCLB & testing; teaching; teacher certification; parent & community relations; school law; school boards; & national education trends. Matthew is an admissions consultant and private educator. He writes out of Cooperstown, New York. Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:07:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Matthew http://www.matthewktabor.com/2007/09/24/college-application-overview-for-homeschoolers-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-1406 Matthew Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:57:20 +0000 http://www.matthewktabor.com/2007/09/24/college-application-overview-for-homeschoolers-recommendations/#comment-1406 Ryan, Thanks - that's an excellent point. With any part of an application, traditional or not, you should review the documents as if you were an admissions committee. Do they make sense? Is the meaning clear? If not, what can you do to make understanding them easier? Admissions committees don't want to decode anything - they don't have the time. There's no shame in writing a brief note to go with a document that helps an evaluator understand the information. Ryan,

Thanks – that’s an excellent point. With any part of an application, traditional or not, you should review the documents as if you were an admissions committee. Do they make sense? Is the meaning clear? If not, what can you do to make understanding them easier?

Admissions committees don’t want to decode anything – they don’t have the time. There’s no shame in writing a brief note to go with a document that helps an evaluator understand the information.

]]> By: Ryan http://www.matthewktabor.com/2007/09/24/college-application-overview-for-homeschoolers-recommendations/comment-page-1/#comment-1404 Ryan Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:28:55 +0000 http://www.matthewktabor.com/2007/09/24/college-application-overview-for-homeschoolers-recommendations/#comment-1404 I would add, too, that for those who are choosing to use an online, virtual academy as a pathway to homeschooling--make sure you check the transcripts before they get sent on to the colleges that you're applying for. In the public school I work at we often have kids come in who previously attended a virtual academy, and the records that follow them have a nasty habit of being difficult to understand, especially if they don't use a familiar grading scale. Sometimes the shorthand they use to describe a class, combined with an odd vernacular of grading, makes the whole document read like a foreign language. I would add, too, that for those who are choosing to use an online, virtual academy as a pathway to homeschooling–make sure you check the transcripts before they get sent on to the colleges that you’re applying for. In the public school I work at we often have kids come in who previously attended a virtual academy, and the records that follow them have a nasty habit of being difficult to understand, especially if they don’t use a familiar grading scale. Sometimes the shorthand they use to describe a class, combined with an odd vernacular of grading, makes the whole document read like a foreign language.

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