Any other homeschoolers?

hollowcloud
Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:34:17 +0000

There are two ways to get in: you can pay your way, or get an appointment. Let me make it clear that it would be easier to get accepted to Yale than get an appointment. Here’s why: Not only do you need good graes (GPA, transcript), but SAT scores are equally, if not more important. You need to be a good writer, too, if you want your state representative to give your letter a second glance. You must persuade this rep that you are the best and that you deserve his letter of recommendation more than any other person in your state. After all, he will only issue ONE appointment each year. Leadership? This is where you can get creative. Try becoming avolunteer fire fighter, becoming captain of a football or ice hockey team. What am I gonna do? Well, i’m a black belt in aikido and tae kwon do, and a green belt in kung fu. I am going to get a job teaching at the fighting academy down the road. This will not only show physical stamina and discipline, but a genuine interest in helping others and teaching others to be disciplined. Having a pilot’s and instrument’s license will show them you are serious about your career. I am also taking the SAT as many times as I can to get my score as high as possible. It is reccomended that one all ready has college under his belt before trying to get in to the USAFA. I am on my fourth semester at a community college. At this point, it clearly does not matter that I have been home schooled my entire life. I can’t begin to imagine how screwed up I would be if I went to public school, and fell for the Trojan Horse in American Education. Don’t get me wrong. Most home schooled students indeed end up naive, depraved, and socially incompetent. Home school has given me nothing but an advantage. I slacked off through out high school. I didn’t care. But I had a burning desire to be a fighter pilot since I was ten. I began to recognize the need for what was important to my future, and I got ahead. When I first enrolled at college, I did not have a diploma, so i had to take the Compass test. My math scored off the charts! They had me skip College Pre-Algebra, College Algebra, Finite Math, and Trigonometry, and put me right into pre calculus. I skipped two years worth of college math! After one semester I had fulfilled the math requirements for any degree at the school. Having graduated at 16, not only was I the only 17 year old on campus, but the only person under 22 to take precal.