Not Another Homeschool Blog

With my son graduating this year and my daughter graduating next, the end of my years as a homeschool mom are fast approaching. But people keep asking me "What are you going to do when the kids are gone?".... in a response, I do a little dance. Aren't you sad, they say... NO I reply.

It is April.  My son graduates in 4 weeks and we are getting bombarded with college emails and postcards...NOW. I would have loved these back in September, when we were visiting schools and making decisions.  But these correspondences at this late date are a little unfortunate.  I do realize that there are some kids who have not made their first choice colleges, or who STILL have not applied at all and need to get on it now, but I feel like colleges that send recruitment material this late in the game are missing out. So.. I guess if your homeschooled kid is still looking, I have a list of schools to consider.  The solicitations we get are mostly from schools with strong Graphic Design and Art programs and/or strong Christian

College #1 application is almost complete.  He loves this college so much that we went to an open house day and they told us to apply  last September, so his application has been in process for a year now.  All he needs to do is submit his art portfolio to increase his scholarship chances. This college has rolling admissions, so an acceptance letter will not mean he HAS to go to THIS school if he is accepted.  Our feedback so far is that his homeschool portfolio is awesome. College #2 application is ready to go out... just waiting for the early application deadline to pass so he is not considered early enrollment as they are not his first choice, just a comparison point. While is best friend is at the school, he says that will not sway him... it will probably come down to dollars and cents. There are a couple of other colleges that are pretty much ruled out, but he may apply to one or two of them for grins and giggles... especially the one that already sent a sc...

Just spoke to the people at my son's top choice college.  They got his homeschool transcript and they like it.  They really, really liked it. Since they have rolling admissions, my son just needs to send a few more items and he will then know in 2 weeks time if he is accepted.  It will feel great not to stress about college for an entire school year. I will share more of the transcript process when I know that the process has been completely successful. FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE MY BUSINESS WEBSITE WalletPop Contributor Brighthub Contributor

I don't know if my son will get accepted for dual enrollment for fall due to his late ACT Date and the later score release date.  For that reason, I have been exploring my other options for his senior year.  I have found two great possibilities.   The first is Georgia Virtual School: http://www.gavirtualschool.org/ Not to be confused with Georgia Virtual Academy, Georgia Virtual School provides a teacher led, virtual classroom environment.  Apparently homeschooled students have now been approved by the state to take 6-half credits each semester for free.  I don't know how I feel about it because it is public school at home, and I preferred a college course, but it will help my son get his last high school requirements out of the way in one semester.   The second is BYU independent study .  Kids can take college and high school level credits and the cost is cheaper than most virtual schools.  It is " a distance education prog...

Both kids have been accepted to spend a week in summer programs at their prospective college choices.  They will be participating in "summer intensives" to get a taste of the colleges.  I am hoping that the experience will get them excited about ending their homeschool journey and also let them know for sure that this is the

With serious budget cuts on the horizon, there are a lot of grumblings about how the HOPE Scholarship should be cut. It seems that most Georgians want to return the scholarship to it's original intent and draw a top income line cutting off upper income families ... (they seem to forget there was also a lower income cut off too as you could not get PELL and HOPE at one time.)  As a homeschooler,  whose children have different and more stringent set of rules of earning the HOPE scholarship, my family would just miss that upper cut off amount and my kids would not get the scholarship if this happens.  But I am not fretting over it because I am not counting on it anyway, because homeschoolers have to be beyond exceptional to get the scholarship first year anyway.  Beyond that first year, my kids could get HOPE if they don't place the income restrictions, unless they use the sliding scale (also suggested), in which case my kids would probably get 80%.  But regardl...

I am working on listing 2010 Scholarhips over at Examiner.com That got me thinking about scholarships open to homeschoolers. Here is what I found. Homeschool.com listing of homeschool scholarships. The full ride scholarships for Alfred State College in NY caught my eye. College Scholarships.org has a list of scholarships for homeschoolers with advice for getting access to all scholarships. Eclectic Homeschool online lists a few as well. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Read more Notes From a Homeschooling Mom Visit Me at the Families.com Homeschool Blog Visit My Education Column at Examiner.com Check out FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE for free homeschool links and resources