<p>Two kids go through the process so far. We just submitted lists of what they had read, sorted by general school subject. No courses or grades listed even in the home school supplement. No problems and no requests for additional info.
After application I saw that Johns Hopkins wanted a graded transcript from home schoolers. I wrote a letter saying that compared to his friends, he seemed well educated, and that he hadn’t done courses or received grades. They accepted him and sent an “early write” letter. The other 5 colleges that accepted him sent “early write” letters as well.
But they never applied to public colleges where I suspect you could get tripped up meeting bureaucratic check lists. I think if private schools want you, they take you.
I think there are individuals suspicious or even hostile to home schoolers. In my family I suspected one instance. My daughter got a 236 PSAT in a not particular high scoring state (Illinois) and was not chosen as a National Merit Scholar. I’ve heard they hire school guidance counselors and teachers for brief periods to review the applications. Please correct me if this isn’t true. Her other accomplishments were enough to end up at Princeton. So nothing to complain about. But I suspected somebody’s bias.
A few years ago there were a few terrible encounters with Davidson detailed on this site, but I have no idea what Davidson is like now.
Generally, I think schools are used to home schoolers by now and people have few problems.</p>