<p>I am sure a lot of schools (maybe all) will accept the Waldorf school’s transcript even though it doesn’t include grades or standardized test scores. Your son will have to take the SSAT so that will give a snapshot of his abilities.</p>
<p>There are BS that are more freeform than the more traditional BS, if you want to continue in that vein. If you are thinking of the more traditional BS, you’ll need to be sure your son is up for the challenge and will have to work on convincing the schools of that.</p>
<p>We also live in a very rural area and till the end of 6th grade or so, my D had nothing on her “resume.” At that time we moved into town and she picked up a few things: two 4 week seasons of an intramural sport, a 3 day music residency that came to our town, some kid classes offered at our community college, and art classes. </p>
<p>She used the Gateway to Prep application and it has LOTS of spaces for accomplishments, ECs, etc. It asks how many hours per week, how many weeks per year, and how many years for each activity. All of hers were of short duration. She included some activities that she did on her own, such as writing fiction, even though she had very little finished product. She had an excellent reference from her G-T teacher of many years who wrote glowingly of her creative writing which tied in nicely. She did not submit any of her writing with her applications and in fact during the application year her interest morphed into visual arts.</p>
<p>She went to a 1 week G-T “camp” for about 3 summers but I don’t think she even put that on her application. It was about 4 hours from where we live. I think it was a lot more lowkey than, say, the programs offered by Hopkins or Stanford.</p>
<p>So the gist of it is, your son is most definitely not automatically excluded from BS. I think the fact that you went to BS will be a plus as the schools will know you have a good idea of what you and he are getting into. You will have an opportunity in parent essays and interviews to explain the relative lack of ECs. I am going to guess that your son’s teachers know him better than the average public school teacher knows their students and will be able to write really good references.</p>
<p>I do suggest that you find some things for your son to be involved with so he doesn’t have a totally blank page where it asks for ECs and accomplishments. Or look at his current activities/interests with an eye as to how to put them on paper. My D played an instrument for a few years and she put orchestra down on the list even though everybody playing an instrument was in orchestra. It still involves a higher level of commitment, practice time, performances, etc.</p>
<p>D applied to 4 schools and was accepted at 2. She received very generous FA at the school she is now attending, a school that values creativity. It’s not one of the big name schools but it couldn’t be more perfect for her.</p>