Homeschooled to Harvard?

T26E4
Sun, 10 Aug 2014 14:54:25 +0000

NG: in recent posts, you’ve taken to reciting HYP often. Why is this so? Suddenly top “name” schools are getting serious inquiry. My caution for you in another thread was to be wary of going down that rabbit hole – it’s often displayed by HS posters on this site. Your job is to honestly evaluate yourself and then create a viable suite of target colleges – don’t be like one current ranting HS sophomore-to-be poster on the Harvard forum who achieved a 2.6 Fr GPA but is insistent on attending Harvard and also is advising others how to do the same. Clearly he’s delusional.

As for homeschoolers – they face the additional challenge validating their academic and character issues by LORs. Unless some portion of your academics (i.e. research) is overseen by an objective outsider who can attest to your stunning ability, top school admissions presents many hurdles for homeschoolers. Also, it’s a given that you need to have amazing SAT/ACTs to back up your transcript.