Homeschooled students - where did you get in?

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Rather than type it all out again I will just link to my post in the thread about my homeschooled S24.

Low-cost [<$30k] (with merit?) schools with engineering [MA resident, 3.91, 1500, not NMSF]

Decisions all in. Thank you all for your advice and support! I’m 95% sure he is going to choose UMass Amherst, but he isn’t ready to hit commit yet. Two wrapping-up thoughts I have: If you had pushed me to say a year ago where I thought he was most likely to end up if he did not get NMSF, I would’ve said UMass Amherst. But I had significant concerns about the size, the reputed party culture, and whether he would feel comfortable on campus. I think getting into the Honors College reduces the size and culture concerns. And he really liked the campus when we visited, much to my surprise. I know it was hard for his ego to get these last few rejections. And as his mom, it’s hard for me to watch. I know he is smart enough and hard-working enough to do well at the schools that he did not get into, and I know that he would be an asset to their campus communities and a positive peer for the students around him. He did not get into any schools that had a sub 50% acceptance rate. He is going t…

One thing about UMass Amherst is that they require homeschooled students to certify that they can benefit from a college education. They say this is a federal requirement, but none of the schools my S23 applied to required this. (Some of the NYS public colleges had language to this effect when S24 applied.) To matriculate you have to take the GED, or get a letter from your school district saying you have completed a sufficient high school program, or have already completed at least 27 college credits. My son will have 31 college credits from DE, which we did intentionally because we knew UMass Amherst was one of his top choices.