Online home schooling?
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In the offhand chance that you live in California, you should be aware that the sole criteria for enrolling in the 2 year community college system is that you are 18. My daughter never even one day in her life attended any organized school. After her 18th birthday, she enrolled at S-- F------ City College, and is currently a striaght A student. When you enroll, you are asked what your educational goal is; she said to improve her employment options. A semester later, she updated the answer to read "to gain an AA degree. So now she is on track to graduate, and be eligible to transfer to UC or the State College System, without jumping through any hoops or taking any entrance exams. By the way, home schooling seems to create intellectually curious, independant minded students. There are a number of stories circulating about homeschool students being awarded scholarships to major universities. There are various programs for homeschoolers. Some school districts provide services (some will try to prevent you doing it), There are companies that provide curricula, others that interface with the educational establishment for you. Schools provide GED testing and pre-test-taking help. I suggest you look around for homeschool families in your area to guidance about what is available in your area. Good luck to you!
I was homeschooled most of my life. And no one cares when you go to college. No one even notices. As for information... I have a lot of it.. so if you want to email me or im me.. i'd be happy to help
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i was on a college admissions board at UConn, and we did not look favorably upon online education because you're missing the interactions. How can you do presentations or oral reports online? (it could be done, but i know it's not) How can you ensure tests are taken without "cheating" by looking at cheat sheets or the textbook>? How can an online instructor identify a student's weaknesses and work with them? Sorry, but it's just not the same... even with excellent test scores backing them, there needs to be some evidence of conventional education if you're looking to move on to conventional higher education. You may end up having to apply to an online college... and employers do know the difference. I always tell people, your best bet is a standard college preparatory education at a public or private school in order to make it into a quality college or university. There are always B-grade colleges and certainly community colleges that will take virtually anyone... but if you want to go to a real competitive school, you need to take the traditional route unless there are some serious mitigating circumstances (disability, etc).
It's really going to depend on the college. Places like Harvard won't be bothered at all by it. Other more narrow-minded places will.
Online courses usually have a teacher you can contact for each course. Check with the online schools you're most interested in. I have no clue how much they cost.
I've tried home-schooling before. In fact, it's quite tired to catch up with all the questions and online classes often go very fast. Me eyes won't be able to stand about 2-4 hours glued to the screen. And the answers above are right absolutely, nobody can stop cheating things when they don't know where you are.
Universities will never accept home-schooling anyway, it depends on the country too. But a bad education system is always a problem in developing country so that's not bothering me at all.
Hope you'll find your own solutions.
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