College Admissions, Scholarships and Homeschooling High Schoolers
12/11/19 • 47 min
Are you homeschooling high school? Are you nervous about the prospect of homeschooling high school? Are you concerned about whether your homeschooled child will find it difficult getting into college, much less receive scholarships?
If any of these questions are looming in your mind, this is an absolutely must-listen episode! Joining me is Pam Andrews, founder of The Scholarship Shark. Pam brings her years of expertise in college admissions and winning scholarships for her clients. Even better, Pam is a homeschooling mom of 4. Pam’s oldest child, who was homeschooled throughout his K-12 education, was accepted to all 8 colleges to which he applied and was awarded over $700K in scholarships. That is not a typo, by the way.
Highlights for this episode are:
9:00 High school and transcript prep
14:00 Course planning for dual enrollment
16:00 Coming up with grades and a transcript
21:30 What’s most important
26:30 Volunteer work
28:00 Colleges are looking for “Intellectual Curiosity”
31:00 Hacking college credits
35:30 What colleges say about homeschoolers
36:30 Learn more about The Scholarship Shark and how Pam can help your child
40:00 Lessons learned
Links Mentioned in This Episode
http://www.mooc.org
https://www.edX.org
https://www.ocw.mit.edu
https://www.online.stanford.edu/courses
https://online-learning.harvard.edu
https://www.hslda.org/content/highschool/academics.asp
For free homeschooling audio downloads, visit my website at https://www.judysarden.com/homeschool
Learn how to provide your kids with a world class education: https://www.judysarden.com/worldclasseducationlivenar
Join my Facebook group, https://facebook.com/groups/howtostarthomeschooling, to see videos, ask questions and join the conversation real time.
You can follow me here:
Are you homeschooling high school? Are you nervous about the prospect of homeschooling high school? Are you concerned about whether your homeschooled child will find it difficult getting into college, much less receive scholarships?
If any of these questions are looming in your mind, this is an absolutely must-listen episode! Joining me is Pam Andrews, founder of The Scholarship Shark. Pam brings her years of expertise in college admissions and winning scholarships for her clients. Even better, Pam is a homeschooling mom of 4. Pam’s oldest child, who was homeschooled throughout his K-12 education, was accepted to all 8 colleges to which he applied and was awarded over $700K in scholarships. That is not a typo, by the way.
Highlights for this episode are:
9:00 High school and transcript prep
14:00 Course planning for dual enrollment
16:00 Coming up with grades and a transcript
21:30 What’s most important
26:30 Volunteer work
28:00 Colleges are looking for “Intellectual Curiosity”
31:00 Hacking college credits
35:30 What colleges say about homeschoolers
36:30 Learn more about The Scholarship Shark and how Pam can help your child
40:00 Lessons learned
Links Mentioned in This Episode
http://www.mooc.org
https://www.edX.org
https://www.ocw.mit.edu
https://www.online.stanford.edu/courses
https://online-learning.harvard.edu
https://www.hslda.org/content/highschool/academics.asp
For free homeschooling audio downloads, visit my website at https://www.judysarden.com/homeschool
Learn how to provide your kids with a world class education: https://www.judysarden.com/worldclasseducationlivenar
Join my Facebook group, https://facebook.com/groups/howtostarthomeschooling, to see videos, ask questions and join the conversation real time.
You can follow me here:
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