Can a home-schooler get into Harvard?

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  1. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

    oxpecker, Mar 30, 2003
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  2. Jack Tracey

    Jack Tracey New Member

    She could get into Harvard but apparently she'll never get into UMass. There's just got to be a way to blame Billy Bulger for this. ;)
    Jack
     
    Jack Tracey, Mar 31, 2003
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  3. Tom Head

    Tom Head New Member

    Interesting article, but the premise is a little odd; homeschoolers have been accepted at Harvard since the 1980s, so this isn't really a test case.


    Cheers,
     
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    Tom Head, Mar 31, 2003
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  4. Anthony Ciolli

    Anthony Ciolli New Member

    Well if not Harvard College there's always the Harvard Extension School :)
     
    Anthony Ciolli, Mar 31, 2003
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  5. tcnixon

    tcnixon Active Member

    Quite true. The first Colfax child made it into Harvard in 1983 and was followed within a few years by two equally homeschooled siblings.

    The Colfax parents eventually wrote "Homeschooling for Excellence." It was a big deal when it happened then, but isn't really one now.

    Many homeschooled children are accepted into prestigious universities all the time now. In the appendix of the book that I just finished, I list many, many of these schools.



    Tom Nixon
     
    tcnixon, Mar 31, 2003
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  6. MarkIsrael@aol.com

    [email protected] New Member

    Shouldn't "home-schooler" in the subject line be "home-schoolee"?
     
    [email protected], Mar 31, 2003
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  7. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

    That's probably better. But I took "home-schooler" out of the article.
     
    oxpecker, Apr 1, 2003
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