(2010-07-07) Strong Homeschool College Prep

Michael Strong says you can do College Prep easily with Home-School-ing (plus $3k/yr for tutors).

A sixteen year old student will be a competitive candidate at the best colleges in the U.S. if she:

1. Has SAT scores above 1400 (preferably above 1500).
2. Has taken three or more Advanced Placement (AP) exams in diverse academic subjects and scored a “4” or higher.
3. Has successfully undertaken a substantial enterprise that has been recognized on its merits by the adult world – a volunteer enterprise, a business enterprise, an academic or research enterprise, has published papers, extraordinary physical or artistic achievement, etc. (Saturday Morning Project)

The single most important pre-requisite for a successful education consists of the habits and attitudes of respect, responsibility, focus, and optimism that you have instilled in your child in the first few years of life... Indeed, “home schooling” is a misleading term; the ideal is to develop capable, sophisticated autodidacts by the age of four or five – “amazing children,” who are spontaneously curious, happy, and loving. In addition, the children should be responsible, polite, and willing to take initiative.