<p>I’ve talked to admissions officers at some tier one schools including Yale, as research for a talk on homeschooling. What they all say, more or less, is that they want to see what UNUSUAL things homeschoolers can do with the freedom they have. Yale specifically told me that they value seeing “out of the box” work done by homeschooled applicants. </p>
<p>I think that many homeschoolers make the mistake of getting tied up in trying to look like all the schooled kids, and it hurts rather than helps.</p>