Home School Students Adjust to New Homes On College Campuses
Colleges and universities have come a long way in overcoming their suspicions of home schoolers' ability to cope with college life, and they are readily admitting students who have received nontraditional educations.
About three out of four institutions of higher education now have
policies for evaluating home schoolers' applications, according to the
National Association for College Admission Counseling, based in
Alexandria, Va. Increasingly, colleges are assigning at least one
admissions officer to specialize in processing the applications of home
schoolers.
"Colleges have a much better grasp of home schooling than they did five years ago," said Barmak Nassirian, the associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers. "Overall, their experience with home schoolers has been so positive that the kinds of misgivings that were quite commonplace five or 10 years ago are...
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