Alright I need some serious help with the whole college thing I’m completly lost. I’m 17, and a juinor in highschool. The thing is though I’m HOMESCHOOLED (if I was in public I’d probably be a sophmore)! I dont have credits and a GPA. My parents would not let me go to a public school my whole life so its been like this since grade 1. I could go now though. How am I supposed to get into college under these circumstances? I’ve always wanted to go to college, its been the one thing I’ve always looked foreward to but I didnt realize there were certain things you had to have and do to get into one… how does college work anyway? If you guys could put it into perspective it would be alot of help no ones ever layed out the guidelines for me and like I said… I’m lost. also I want to either be a pediatrician or something along the lines of a physicist for NASA. So if you guys could lay out the guidelines and rules and all that for those specific career paths then that would be even more help
Colleges love homeschoolers. Texas A&M, Sewanee, LSU, Berry, Yale and Harvard have all said that all you have to do is have your mom/dad/legal guardian to write your transcripts and give you credits. They colleges will accept it. In Texas it is illegal for colleges to make homeschoolers do anything different than regular schoolers.
You need to get some extra-curriculars in though. Sponser whales, volunteer at Habitat for Humanity, be a Big Brother, try for the Congressional Award. All of these things will help you get into a college. If you have an interest persue it. Shadow a pediatrician or a physicist at work (if you can).
Go to collegeboard.com and the http://www.princetonreview.com. It will help you find a university and give you more insight into what you need to do to become a doctor/physicist. You can call the admissions department at different universities that you are interested in and talk to them about what you need to get in.
You can also take some classes at a community college. It willl help you understand what college classes are like and give you a little more meat for your transcript.