Question for people who went to homeschool then college.?

I wasn't homeschooled, but I am a homeschool mom. You will have a transcript for your time in ps, and you need to make a transcript for your homeschool time. This is basically a list of your courses, what they covered, and what your grades were. You should have been tracking your time and grades through the last year or two, so they should be easy to transfer to the transcript.

There are software tracking products that you can use to do this (Homeschool Tracker and Edu-Track are two of the most popular), or you (or your mom) can type up one of your own.

You actually don't need your GED to get into college, as colleges and universities (in the US, at least) accept homeschool transcripts and diplomas. Very few still require GED's from homeschool students. Get a catalog from the schools you wish to apply to and find out what they require.

Homeschool parents usually do draw up a transcript for their kids and most colleges accept it. You don't really have to a GED either if you have really been studying at home, instead take the SAT or ACT. If you haven't taken college prep courses, (such as Algebra 1 and 2, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, plus 4 years of English) then go ahead and take the GED and enroll in community college for a couple of years first, then try to get into a four year college as a transfer student.

Don't do a GED, you won't need it to get into most colleges if you are claiming homeschooling. Most have a separate admissions for homeschoolers. Look at the website of the colleges you are interested in, under 'admissions'. If they don't have information, then you need to drive by and pick up whatever information they will share with you. You will need a transcript, which your parents can do following a sample online. Google 'transcript samples' and look at something like this

http://www.oklahomahomeschool.com/trans1.html

As for the ACT, you need to take it in November or December, it takes several weeks to get the scores. Most colleges have a deadline for admissions by March. Go to the ACT website and search for upcoming test dates and sites.

Good luck.

I was home schooled from 6th grade to graduation in Tennessee. I moved to California and am now attending community college out here and plan to transfer to UC at Santa Cruz. Although there was a lot of paperwork and cross-country phone-calling to my 'rents back home, I got in just fine and received financial aid. I got my transcript from my umbrella school-- something that is required by law to have if your parent teaching you doesn't have a college degree. If you have an umbrella school monitoring your home school progress, then you can just contact them and they will send your college a high school transcript. If not I don't know about that kind of homeschooling, sorry.

Your parents should be putting together a transcript for you, as well as a diploma. You don't need to do your GED if you don't want to. If you talk to an admission's officer, they will tell you specifically what they want, which may include a portfolio sample of your work, or it may just be your ACT or SAT scores. Each college is going to have their own rules.