Not Another Homeschool Blog

But it sure feels good when your kid gets accepted. We will be touring a college this weekend to help make "the choice".  I feel like homeschooling has officially worked.  My son has acceptance letters and scholarship offers so that means we did a great job homeschooling... right? Well, we did a good job academically, but getting into college does not mean we homeschooled well. Homeschooling is about a lot more than education.  In my son's case, I was hoping to raise a well

I just finished my son's homeschool portfolio for his application to SCAD.  Included in it as a short syllabus from every course he's taken (or table of contents from the books he's used).  A transcript, a reading list, a resume of activities and accomplishments, and a writing sample...  probably his best essay to date. He still has to submit his art portfolio in hopes of getting a scholarship and write his statement of purpose.  I will mail it tomorrow, and am getting everything else submitted.  We are hoping to have his application in by the end of Sept because I hear scholarships are first come, first served.  We will apply to his second choice college in October.   If we apply to others, it will be in November. Feels good to have it done. But it doesn't end there... getting my second child ready to take the PSAT in a month. FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE   MY BUSINESS WEBSITE WalletPop Contributor Brighthub Contributor

So here's my dillema.  Son wants to go to SCAD Atlanta (Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta).  He has for a couple years now.  He is willing to look at other schools to apply to as a back-up, but he wants to go to SCAD so won't actively look for other options.  He as asked me to spearhead the search for backup colleges, and I have.  There is one other smaller, less expensive Christian college that he likes and beyond that, there is a big party college, where he can get a decent arts education, and the main campus of the state college (UGA) also has what looks like a very good art school.  The last two he would only apply to for giggles and grins, just for the sake of saying he applied to more than one or two colleges. Here's the thing, we are not worried about him getting into SCAD.  We are only worried about paying for it. We are also not worried about getting into the second choice as they love homeschoolers.  But the State college...

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...

We have talked to a lot of admissions counselors, but done nothing on paper until today.  We just submitted the SCAD application online... too bad the application fee waiver coupon they gave didn't work. No worries though, it was only $35.00.  SCAD strongly suggested my son apply NOW, almost 2 full years before he is to enroll... strange, but if that's what they want, that is what they get.  We will be contacted by a dedicated admissions counselor soon to continue the process... this was just the initial form. We also need to submit a special application in the spring for their Rising Stars program. FREE HOME EDUCATION WEBSITE MY BUSINESS WEBSITE WalletPop Contributor