• List of “home-school friendly” colleges (http://rsts.net/colleges/)
• Colleges that have admitted home schoolers (http://learninfreedom.org/colleges_4_hmsc.html). This is Karl Bunday’s well-documented site on colleges that have admitted home schoolers.
High School Transcripts
Almost every college and university requires a high school transcript from its applicants. The parents of home-schooled students, as the student’s primary instructors, usually create a home-schooler’s transcript. Both The Guidance Manual for the Christian Home School and the Homeschoolers’ College Admissions Handbook contain detailed instructions about how to document home-schooled students’ learning and create transcripts. However, these two online forms will also help.
• Basic forms for creating a high school transcript are available free at the following websites:
http://donnayoung.org/hschool/hischl.htm
http://www.geocities.com/homeschoolforms/page4.html
This article will be continued in Part II.
Kathi Kearney has been working with home-schooling parents for 23 years. She is Founder of the Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted children in South Casoo, Maine, a doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University, and editor of Highly Gifted Children, the newsletter of The Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children. She has taught at the university level and is a free-lance writer. You will often find Kathi in Crosswalk.com chat rooms, helping home-school moms.
