<p>I agree completely with cockatiel. This is a non-home schooler’s creation. If you are a skeptic of traditional education, as I am, it just sticks in the craw.
I’m thinking (and hoping- I’ve got a 12 year old yet at home) that submitting information in ways that make sense relative to our kids’ individual experiences will continue to work, at least at competitive private colleges, where civil service rules do not apply.
From a baldly practical college application point of view, I think the fact that many home schoolers did things DIFFERENTLY has been a competitive advantage. Escaping the door that everyone was trying to squeeze through where, for example, the number of APs is toted up, has a utilitarian value as well as being educationally exhilarating. For some of our kids, the application takes a free form, personal experience and makes it into something that- in the archaic phrase- folds, bends, staples and mutilates.</p>