2% of Princeton's acceptances were home schooled!

[nopoisonivy]

<p><a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/04/03/news/17914.shtml[/url]”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/04/03/news/17914.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<pre><code>Of the accepted students, 59 percent are from public schools, 30 percent private, nine percent religiously based and two percent were home-schooled.
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[maributt]

<p>this is only significant if less than 2% of the applications were from homeschoolers, which we don’t know.</p>

<p>and 2% is probably rounded up from something</p>

[danas]

<p>Even at 1.5 percent, thats 27 admitted. Say 20 enroll. That’s quite a bit more than the 5 or 6 a year I think I’ve seen mentioned before. Now we’re getting somewhere!</p>

[nopoisonivy]

<p>This would come out to approx 35 students which ia a significant increase:)</p>

[debate_addict]

<p>Lol, this is hilarious. I am in Greece and I do IB, but I would like to homeschool myself and take APs. The thing is I dunno if there are test centers here. Do there have to be like approved test centers? How does it work?</p>

[Pearl]

<p>In the states, home-schooled kids take AP exams usually at local high schools (public or private).</p>

[mimiantoinette]

<p>I am taking all of my AP’s through the local highschool since I am homeschooled. I am also rooting for top tier schools and I am happy to see that homeschooled kids are getting the recognition they deserve.
If you are admitted as a homeschooled student to a top college, then you really have to have worked hard since a lot is expected form us. We have to have the best scores in SAT’s , SATII’s, AP’s and any other test we may have to take.</p>

[danas]

<p>Princeton gave my daughter’s name to Newsweek to be interviewed for the Newsweek/Kaplan annual issue. The interview wasn’t used, though there was a short blurb about home schoolers.
When my daughter said that she understood that 2% of the admitted class of 2011 were home schoolers, the reporter told her that was incorrect, the correct number was 4 students. I don’t know if that was admitted or planned to matriculate.
I didn’t call Princeton to confirm, but unfortunately 4 enrolled students isn’t far from the number in previous years. She’s talked to one other home schooler in her class here on CC.</p>

[tokenadult]

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@debate_addict

I am in Greece and I do IB, but I would like to homeschool myself and take APs. The thing is I dunno if there are test centers here. Do there have to be like approved test centers? How does it work?

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<p>Your question is about AP test centers, right? </p>

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@College Board

If you are a homeschooled student or attend a school that does not offer AP, you can still take the exams by arranging to test at a participating school.</p>

<pre><code>* Call AP Services no later than March 1 to get the names and telephone numbers of local AP Coordinators. Prepare a list of the exams you plan to take prior to calling so that the appropriate Coordinators can be identified

• Contact the AP Coordinators identified by AP Services no later than March 15.
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<p>When calling Coordinators to arrange testing, make sure to tell them:</p>

<pre><code>* You are trying to locate a school willing to administer exams to homeschooled students or students from schools that do not offer AP.

• You will use a different school code so your exam grade(s) will be reported separately from the school at which you test. (Homeschooled students will use the state homeschool code provided by the Coordinator on the day of the exam; students attending schools will use their school code.)
• The exams you plan to take.
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<p>Once you locate a school willing to administer the exams, that school’s AP Coordinator is responsible for ordering your exam materials, telling you when and where to appear for the exams, and collecting your fees, which he or she may negotiate to recover additional proctoring or administration costs. That school must administer the exams for you; it cannot forward them to you or your school for handling.

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<p><a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools; </p>

<p>I know that CC member oasis took quite a few AP tests in Taiwan, but I don’t know how many schools offer AP testing in Greece. It can’t hurt to ask early, and see what kind of answer you get. My son can test at a local public high school in another school district that is very accommodating to homeschoolers and other self-studiers; it may be that he’ll take his AP tests in our own district’s high school this school year. </p>

<p>Good luck finding the high school program that fits your learning goals.</p>