Homeschooled to Harvard?

mifune
Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:41:13 +0000

Home-schooled students are relatively rare at Harvard and its peer institutions although I am not mindful of any statistics referencing how the admissions rate compares to those from more traditional schooling backgrounds. Princeton includes home-schooled students in the statistics set that it releases each year:

[Princeton University | Admission Statistics](http://www.princeton.edu/admission/applyingforadmission/admission_statistics/)

Apparently, four home-schooled students have joined Princeton’s Class of 2014.

On that note, though, I believe that Evan O’Dorney is applying to Harvard this year for a position in the Class of 2015. (He is a home-schooled student who won the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee, finished second at the 2010 IMO, and has won the USAMO multiple times.) He has publicly expressed his hope to attend Harvard. I am interested to hear where he attends.