Lori

I am also new to unschooling, and my oldest has just
dropped out of middle school to join us at home. Its
been several months of computer games and tv, music,
journaling, aikido, reading, writing, scouting, etc.
All seems to be going really well as far as that is
concerned. I do have my moments, that I feel
concerned, as I know she wants to go to college, and
the school that she hopes to go to, where my husband
teaches, is difficult to get into...We have the added
incentive of her attending there because we don't have
to pay for tuition.

So, the idea of transcripts, etc. is a valid concern.
We are reading The Teenage Liberation Handbook, and
brainstorming ideas of how Eva can follow her own path
and still meet the requirements for college. The one
idea that we keep coming to again and again, is that
when she reaches ninth grade, we feel perhaps
enrolling her into Clonlara's compuhigh program might
work best for her. She will decide when we get there,
I suppose. We are enrolled through Clonlara currently,
and there is a safety net for me in doing so, I think,
because they are able to keep transcripts for the work
we are doing, and Eva could enroll into high school
from Clonlara without any problems.

There are some interesting articles on the clonlara
site....

www.clonlara.org.

If you come across anything else that helps you along
the way, please post. I would love to read what others
are experiencing.

Good luck to you!

Lori


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Tia Leschke

>
>All seems to be going really well as far as that is
>concerned. I do have my moments, that I feel
>concerned, as I know she wants to go to college, and
>the school that she hopes to go to, where my husband
>teaches, is difficult to get into...We have the added
>incentive of her attending there because we don't have
>to pay for tuition.

Harder to get into than Harvard? Stanford? They take
homeschoolers. Stanford takes a higher percentage of hs applicants than
the ones who apply through high school.

>We are enrolled through Clonlara currently,
>and there is a safety net for me in doing so, I think,
>because they are able to keep transcripts for the work
>we are doing, and Eva could enroll into high school
>from Clonlara without any problems.

Do hs students where you live usually have problems enrolling in high
school? The ones I've known around here just go into the grade according
to their age, and then get their courses adjusted if needed.
Tia

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Lori

Tia wrote:

> Harder to get into than Harvard? Stanford? They
> take
> homeschoolers. Stanford takes a higher percentage
> of hs applicants than
> the ones who apply through high school.

No, not nearly that difficult. It has nothing to do
with the percentages of who has gotten into Stanford
and Harvard. It is that this is the school that we can
"afford" to send her to, and she would like to go to.

> >We are enrolled through Clonlara currently,
> >and there is a safety net for me in doing so, I
> think,
> >because they are able to keep transcripts for the
> work
> >we are doing, and Eva could enroll into high school
> >from Clonlara without any problems.
>
> Do hs students where you live usually have problems
> enrolling in high
> school? The ones I've known around here just go
> into the grade according
> to their age, and then get their courses adjusted if
> needed.

I don't know what problems others have had in this
community. There are just a handful in the town I am
in, and I know of none older than 13. So, as Is said,
it may not be necessary at all to have the back up. Or
it may be. Either way, she's got support from
Clonlara, and they have dealt with this kind of stuff
a lot longer than I have.




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Tia Leschke

At 04:02 PM 11/13/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Tia wrote:
>
> > Harder to get into than Harvard? Stanford? They
> > take
> > homeschoolers. Stanford takes a higher percentage
> > of hs applicants than
> > the ones who apply through high school.
>
>No, not nearly that difficult. It has nothing to do
>with the percentages of who has gotten into Stanford
>and Harvard. It is that this is the school that we can
>"afford" to send her to, and she would like to go to.

My point, though, was that it might be a lot easier than you think. Many
colleges and universities are treating hs students differently than
schooled kids in terms of admissions. You might want to ask what their
policy is on hs admissions.
Tia

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