<p>Homeschooling requirements vary from state to state. You can view them by logging onto the deptartment of education’s website for the US state that you would likely live in.</p>
<p>Where we live, Georiga, there is very little support given to home-schoolers by the public school system (in our county, none actually). </p>
<p>It can be a challange to put together a curriculum and obtain the resources for it, but it can be done and it can be done well. Just remember that it will be a great deal of work. </p>
<p>In the US you can usually find many homeschooling groups to join or participate in. This helps with field trips, extra classes with other home-schoolers, national events like the robotics competition, etc… If you search hard enough, you usually can find resources in your community. Larger cities will probably offer more in this way than rural areas. </p>
<p>Corporations and non-profits are beginning to notice the home-school market here as well and often offer “home-school days” at museums, parks, science centers, etc…</p>
<p>The perception that the majority of Americans have toward home-schoolers is not favorable - mostly because they do not understand what home-schoolers do and probably also because they have come across a crazy person or two who have said that they home-school. There ARE some crazy people who home-school - just like there are some crazy people who send their kids to public and private school. There ARE some people doing a terriable job at home-schooling too - just like there are public and private school kids who don’t do well in those schools. And there ARE many people who do an outstanding job home-schooling their children and these people are usually sucessful getting their home-schooled kids into good colleges. </p>
<p>The smaller colleges (private, especially) like home-schoolers. This mainly has to do with the fact that they spend more time evaluating their candidates for admission and have the time to look at portfolios and essays, rather than just numbers like GPAs. The larger schools often do not want to fool with going the extra mile to evaluate their candidates. Specifically, in Georgia the University of GA. is very difficult for home-schoolers to get into where as Emory and Agnes Scott are much more open to them. Emory has even stated that home-schoolers tend to do very well there and are more independent learners. </p>
<p>Home-schoolers will be required to obtain SATs at least as high as the average freshman being admitted and SAT IIs to back up the validity of the GAP given on a transcript. At private schools like Emory and Agnes Scott, they only require 3 SAT IIs where as University of GA may require up to 7. </p>
<p>Hope this helps.</p>