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Homeschooled Children Can Get Into Good Colleges

Every year homeschoolers are admitted to hundreds of colleges in at least five countries. Those who prepare thoroughly can be admitted with full scholarships at those selective colleges that some parents daydream about their children attending. Read on to find out which colleges have admitted homeschooled children, and continue to the linked subpages to find out more about how to get into the college of your choice.

Selective Colleges That Have Accepted Homeschoolers

More than 1,000 schools of higher education appear on this FAQ and its subpages, and links to over 980 college Web sites appear on these pages. Entries followed by double exclamation points (!!) are those confirmed to have admitted at least one homeschooled applicant. Asterisks (* *) following names of schools known to accept homeschoolers show how many printed sources of college ratings mention those schools as "selective" or "good" colleges. See subpages for other colleges A-G, for other colleges H-S, for other colleges T-Z, and for open-admission colleges reported to have accepted home-schooled students. Use this site's site search [Search Form] feature to find out whether a college you know about is already listed, and on which page.

Selective Colleges Known to Have Admitted Homeschoolers

Adelphi U. !! NY * *
Agnes Scott C. !! GA * * *
Albertson C. !! ID * * * *
Albion C. !! MI * *
Alfred U. !! NY * * * *
Allegheny C. !! PA * * *
Alma C. [yes] MI * *
Alverno C. !! WI *
American U. !! DC * * * *
Amherst C. !! MA * * * * * *
Antioch C. !! OH *
Arizona State U. !! AZ * *
Asbury C. !! KY *
Assumption C. !! MA *
Auburn U. !! AL * * * * * *
Augustana C. !! IL *
Austin C. !! TX * * * *
Baylor U. !! TX * * * * *
Beloit C. !! WI * * * *
Bemidji State U. !! MN *
Bennington C. !! VT * * *
Berea C. !! KY *
Berklee C. of Music !! MA *
Berry C. !! GA * *
Bethany C. !! WV *
Bethel C. !! MN *
Biola U. !! CA *
Birmingham-Southern C. !! AL * * * * *
Boston C. !! MA * * * * * *
Boston Conservatory !! MA *
Boston U. !! MA * * * * * *
Bowdoin C. !! ME * * * * * *
Bradley U. !! IL * *
Brandeis U. !! MA * * * * *
Brigham Young U. !! UT * * * * *
Brown U. !! RI * * * * * *
Bryn Mawr C. !! PA * * * * * *
Bucknell U. !! PA * * * *
Buena Vista U. !! IA *
Butler U. !! IN * *
California Institute of Technology !! CA * * * * * *
California Polytechnic State U., San Luis Obispo !! CA *
California State U.--Los Angeles !! CA *
Calvin C. !! MI * * * * *
Capital U. !! OH *
Carleton C. !! MN * * * * *
Carnegie Mellon U. !! PA * * * * * *
Carroll C. !! MT *
Case Western Reserve U. !! OH * * * * *
Catholic U. of America !! DC * * * * *
Cedarville C. !! OH *
Central C. !! IA *
Christian Brothers U. !! TN *
Claremont McKenna C. !! CA * * * * * * *
Clemson U. !! SC * * * * *
Coe C. !! IA *
Colby C. !! ME * * * * * *
C. of St. Benedict !! MN * *
C. of St. Scholastica !! MN *
C. of the Atlantic !! ME * * *
C. of William and Mary !! VA * * * * * * *
C. of Wooster !! OH * * * *
Colorado C. !! CO * * * *
Colorado School of Mines !! CO * * * * *
Colorado State U. !! CO *
Concordia C. !! Moorhead, MN *
Cornell C. !! IA * *
Cornell U. !! NY * * * * * *
Creighton U. !! NE * * * *
Dartmouth C. !! NH * * * * * *
David Lipscomb U. !! TN *
Davidson C. !! NC * * * * * * *
Delaware Valley C. !! PA *
Denison U. !! OH * * * *
DePaul U. !! IL * * * *
DePauw U. !! IN * * *
Dickinson C. !! PA * * *
Drake U. !! IA * * *
Drew U. !! NJ * * *
Drexel U. !! PA * *
Drury C. !! MO *
Duke U. !! NC * * * * * *
Duquesne U. !! PA * *
Earlham C. !! IN * * * *
Eckerd C. !! FL * * *
Edinboro U. of Pennsylvania !! PA *
Elizabethtown C. !! PA *
Emory U. !! GA * * * * *
Evergreen State C. !! WA * * *
Fashion Institute of Technology !! NY *
Florida Institute of Technology !! FL * *
Franciscan U. of Steubenville OH !! * *
Franklin and Marshall C. !! PA * * * *
George Fox U. !! OR *
George Mason U. !! VA * * *
George Washington U. !! DC * * * *
Georgetown U. !! DC * * * * * *
Georgia Institute of Technology !! GA * * * * * * *
Gettysburg C. !! PA * * *
Goddard C. !! VT *
Gordon C. !! MA *
Goshen C. !! IN *
Goucher C. !! MD * * *
Grinnell C. !! IA * * * *
Grove City C. !! PA * * * * *
Guilford C. !! NC * * * *
Gustavus Adolphus C. !! MN * * * *
Hampshire C. !! MA * * *
Hanover C. !! IN * * *
Harding U. !! AR *
Harvard U. !! MA * * * * * * *
Harvey Mudd C. !! CA * * * * *
Hastings C. !! NE * *
Haverford C. !! PA * * * * * * *
Hillsdale C. !! MI * * * *
Hiram C. !! OH * * * *
Hobart and William Smith Colleges !! NY * * *
Hood C. !! MD *
Hope C. !! MI * * *
Houghton C. !! NY * * *
Humboldt State U. !! CA *
Illinois Institute of Technology !! IL * * * *
Illinois Wesleyan U. !! IL * * * *
Indiana U., Bloomington !! IN * * * *
Iowa State U. !! IA * * * *
Ithaca C. [yes] NY *
James Madison U. !! VA * * * * *
John Brown U. !! AR *
Johns Hopkins U. !! MD * * * * * *
Juniata C. !! PA * *
Kalamazoo C. !! MI * * *
Kansas State U. !! KS *
Kenyon C. !! OH * * * * *
Kettering U. !! MI * *
King C. !! TN *
Knox C. !! IL * * * *
Lafayette C. !! PA * * * *
Lake Forest C. !! IL * * *
Lawrence U. !! WI * * * * *
LeTourneau U. !! TX *
Lewis & Clark C. !! OR * * *
Linfield C. !! OR *
Louisiana State U. and Agricultural and Mechanical C. !! LA * * * *
Loyola C. !! MD * * *
Loyola U. Chicago !! IL * * *
Luther C. !! IA *
Macalester C. !! MN * * * * *
Marietta C. !! OH *
Marlboro C. !! VT * * *
Marquette U. !! WI * * * * *
Maryland Institute C. of Art !! MD * *
Maryville C. !! TN *
Massachusetts Institute of Technology !! MA * * * * * *
Messiah C. !! PA *
Miami U. !! OH * * * * *
Michigan Technological U. !! MI * * * *
Middlebury C. !! VT * * * * * *
Mills C. !! CA * * *
Montana State U.--Billings !! MT *
Montana State U.--Bozeman !! MT *
Montana Tech of the U. of Montana !! MT * *
Mount Holyoke C. !! MA * * * * *
Muhlenberg C. !! PA * * *
Muskingum C. !! OH
New C. of the U. of South Florida !! FL * * * *
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) !! NM * * * *
New York U. !! NY * * * * *
North Carolina State U. !! * * * * *
North Central C. !! IL *
Northeastern U. !! MA * *
Northwestern C. !! IA *
Northwestern U. !! IL * * * * * *
Oberlin C. !! OH * * * * *
Occidental C. !! CA * * * *
Oglethorpe U. !! GA * * * *
Ohio Northern U. !! OH * *
Ohio State U.: Columbus Campus !! OH * * * *
Ohio U. !! OH * * * * *
Ohio Wesleyan U. !! OH * * * *
Oklahoma City U. !! OK *
Oklahoma State U. !! OK *
Oregon State U. !! OR *
Ouachita Baptist U. !! AR *
Pacific Lutheran U. !! WA *
Pennsylvania State U. University Park Campus !! PA * * * *
Pepperdine U. !! CA * * * * * *
Philadelphia C. of Pharmacy and Science !! PA *
Pitzer C. !! CA * * *
Polytechnic U. [yes] NY *
Pomona C. !! CA * * * * * *
Princeton U. !! NJ * * * * * *
Providence C. !! RI * * * *
Purdue U. !! IN * * * * *
Quincy University !! IL *
Radford U. !! VA *
Reed C. !! OR * * * *
Regis U. !! CO *
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute !! NY * * * *
Rhode Island School of Design !! RI * * * *
Rhodes C. !! TN * * * * * *
Rice U. !! TX * * * * * *
Ripon C. !! WI * * *
Rochester Institute of Technology !! NY * * * *
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology !! IN * * * *
Rutgers, State U. of New Jersey, Rutgers C. !! NJ * * * * *
St. Andrews Presbyterian C. !! NC *
St. Bonaventure U. !! NY *
St. John's C. !! MD & NM * * * * *
St. John's U. !! MN * * *
St. Joseph's C. !! ME *
St. Joseph's U. !! PA *
Saint Mary's C. !! IN * * *
St. Mary's C. of California !! CA * * *
St. Mary's C. of Maryland !! MD * * * *
St. Norbert C. !! WI * *
St. Olaf C. !! MN * * * * *
St. Vincent C. !! PA *
Samford U. !! AL * *
Sarah Lawrence C. !! NY * * * *
Seattle U. !! WA *
Seton Hall U. !! NJ *
Shepherd C. [yes] WV *
Simmons C. !! MA *
Simon's Rock C. of Bard !! MA * *
Smith C. !! MA * * * * *
Southern Methodist U. !! TX * * * *
Spring Arbor C. !! MI
Stanford U. !! CA * * * * * * *
State U. of New York at Binghamton !! NY * * * * *
State U. of New York C. at Geneseo !! NY * * *
Stephens C. !! MO *
Stetson U. !! FL * * *
Swarthmore C. !! PA * * * * * *
Sweet Briar C. !! VA * * *
Syracuse U. !! NY * * * *
Taylor U. !! IN *
Temple U. !! PA *
Texas A & M U., College Station !! TX * * * * *
Texas Christian U. !! TX * * *
Thomas Aquinas C. !! CA * * *
Trinity U. !! TX * * * * *
Truman State U. !! MO * * * *
Tulane U. !! LA * * * * *
Union U. !! TN *
United States Air Force Academy !! Colorado Springs, CO * * *
United States Coast Guard Academy !! CT * * *
United States Military Academy !! West Point, NY * * * *
United States Naval Academy !! Annapolis, MD * * * *
U. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa !! AL * *
U. of Alabama in Huntsville !! AL *
U. of Arizona !! AZ * * * *
U. of California: Berkeley !! CA * * * * *
U. of California: Davis !! CA * * * * *
U. of California: Riverside !! CA * * * * *
U. of California: San Diego !! * * * *
U. of California: Santa Cruz !! CA * * * *
U. of Chicago !! IL * * * * * * *
U. of Cincinnati !! OH * *
U. of Colorado at Boulder !! CO * * * * *
U. of Connecticut !! CT * * * *
U. of Dallas !! TX * * * * *
U. of Dayton !! OH * * * * *
U. of Delaware !! DE * * * *
U. of Denver !! CO * * * *
U. of Evansville !! IN * *
U. of Florida !! FL * * * *
U. of Georgia !! GA * * * * *
U. of Houston !! TX *
U. of Idaho !! ID * *
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign !! IL * * * * * *
U. of Iowa !! IA * * * *
U. of Kansas !! KS * * * * *
U. of Kentucky !! KY * * *
U. of Maine, Farmington !! ME *
U. of Maine, Orono !! ME * *
U. of Maryland, College Park !! MD * * * *
U. of Massachusetts Amherst !! MA * * * * *
U. of Miami !! FL * * * *
U. of Michigan !! MI * * * * *
U. of Minnesota, Morris !! MN * * *
U. of Minnesota, Twin Cities !! MN * * * * * *
U. of Missouri-Columbia !! MO * * *
U. of Missouri-Kansas City !! MO *
U. of Missouri-Rolla !! MO * * *
U. of Montana !! MT *
U. of Nebraska-Lincoln !! NE *
U. of New Hampshire !! NH * * * *
U. of North Carolina at Asheville !! * * *
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill !! NC * * * * *
U. of North Dakota !! ND *
U. of Notre Dame !! IN * * * * * * *
U. of Oklahoma !! OK * * * *
U. of Oregon !! OR * *
U. of Pennsylvania !! PA * * * * * * *
U. of Pittsburgh !! PA * * * * *
U. of Portland [yes] OR *
U. of Puget Sound !! WA * * *
U. of Redlands !! CA * * *
U. of Rhode Island !! RI * *
U. of Richmond !! VA * * * * *
U. of Rochester !! NY * * *
U. of St. Thomas !! MN *
U. of San Francisco !! CA *
U. of South Carolina !! SC * *
U. of Southern California !! CA * * * *
U. of Tennessee !! TN * * * *
U. of Texas at Austin !! TX * * * * * *
U. of the South !! * * * * * *
U. of Utah !! UT * *
U. of Vermont !! VT * * * *
U. of Virginia !! VA * * * * * *
U. of Washington !! WA * * * * * *
U. of Wisconsin--Madison !! WI * * * * * *
U. of Wyoming !! WY *
Ursinus C. !! PA * * *
Valparaiso U. !! IN * * *
Vanderbilt U. !! TN * * * * *
Vassar C. !! NY * * * * * *
Villanova U. !! PA * * * * *
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U. !! VA * * * *
Wabash C. !! IN * * * * * *
Warren Wilson C. !! NC *
Wartburg C. !! IA *
Washington and Lee U. !! VA * * * * * * *
Washington C. !! MD * *
Washington U. !! MO * * * * * *
Wellesley C. !! MA * * * * * *
Wells C. !! NY * *
Wesleyan U. !! CT * * * * * *
West Virginia Wesleyan C. [yes] WV *
Westminster Choir C. of Rider U. !! NJ *
Westminster C. !! MO
Wheaton C. !! IL * * * *
Wheaton C. !! MA * * *
Whitman C. !! WA * * * * *
Whittier C. !! CA * * *
Willamette U. !! OR * * *
William Jewell C. [yes] MO *
Williams C. !! MA * * * * * * *
Wingate U. !! NC *
Winona State U. !! MN *
Wittenberg U. !! OH * * * *
Wofford C. !! SC * * * * *
Worcester Polytechnic Institute !! MA * * * *
Xavier U. !! OH *
Yale U. !! CT * * * * * *

Entries followed by double exclamation points (!!) are those confirmed to have admitted at least one homeschooled applicant. Asterisks (* *) following names of schools known to accept homeschoolers show how many printed sources of college ratings mention those schools as "selective" or "good" colleges. See subpages for other colleges A-G, for other colleges H-S, for other colleges T-Z, and for open-admission colleges reported to have accepted home-schooled students. Please search this site

by Google
to see which pages on this site list which colleges, if you don't find your favorite college on this page.

It is reported that every one of the colleges listed in the various subpages of this FAQ has offered admission to at least one "home schooled" applicant (who may or may not have enrolled there). Those that I have confirmed as definitely having made a firm offer of admission to a homeschooled applicant are marked with double exclamation points ("!!") on the page where they are listed. Colleges known to recruit homeschoolers, those that describe admission procedures for home-schooled applicants in their application materials, or those whose admission officers indicate that they would admit homeschooled applicants are marked as "[yes]." As the reconfirmation process continues, the "!!" mark will take precedence over any other applicable mark describing a school's admission of homeschoolers. Below is information to help you pursue knowledge about homeschool college admission.

Admission Criteria

More than 600 open admission two-year colleges and more than 100 open admission four-year colleges in the United States are listed in The College Handbook 2000 at pages 1791-1794. Those known to have admitted homeschoolers are now listed on a page about open-admission schools for homeschoolers to save space on this main FAQ page.

College admission of applicants without high school diplomas has been going on for a long time. Harvard College specifically mentions that Harvard has never required a high school diploma for admission. Stanford University makes clear in a form letter to homeschooled applicants that a high school diploma is not necessary for admission. The United States Air Force Academy now has a specific Web page with answers to questions about homeschool admission procedures [link to a different Web site], a sign that it gets that kind of question quite often. More and more colleges are following their lead and mentioning admission policies for homeschoolers on-line or in printed materials, for example

A parenting resources Web site features an on-line article [link to a different Web site] by Bruce Hammond that makes clear that many colleges think homeschoolers are "often better socialized and more mature than students in public schools." The pan-Canadian homeschooling resource site on the Web has a detailed page about Canadian Universities Accepting Homeschoolers [link to a different Web site] with much information about specific admission requirements. If you want to get into higher education, home education in younger years is no barrier.

Questions about home-schooled applicants come up so often now for the College Board, the organization that sponsors the SAT I and SAT II college-entrance tests, that the Board has put together an on-line Web tour showing The Path from Home School to College [link to a different Web site], which is a very useful resource for all homeschoolers.

Colleges that accept homeschoolers rely on various materials in place of high school grades, including, perhaps, portfolios of student work, the applicant's personal essay, SAT I test [link to a different Web site] or ACT test [link to a different Web site] scores, grades from open admission community colleges, and personal recommendations. Challenging extracurricular activities are generally important for nontraditional applicants, and especially important for all applicants who hope to get scholarships. I have found out from telephone interviews with admission officers that admission criteria can vary quite widely. One Bible college admission officer told me that homeschoolers are welcomed by her school, but that applicants without a high school diploma are required to take the GED exam. Some quite selective colleges will admit anyone with scores on the SAT or ACT above a certain level, and will consider other applicants based on portfolios of the applicants' academic work. Cafi Cohen's Web site [link to a different Web site] has especially detailed descriptions of some colleges' admission procedures that I won't duplicate here; her site is very helpful.

Other Pages of This FAQ

Feel free to browse the other pages of the Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers FAQ, besides this main page, for more detailed information. The overall structure of the FAQ is like the outline below:
Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers FAQ (Guide to Selective College Admission for Home-schooled Applicants) [this page]
A guide to selective colleges that admit homeschooled applicants, with other college information for families.
Colleges Rated by Third-Party Rating Guides
A guide to which colleges are supposedly good colleges according to published sources.
Colleges (A-G) Reported to Have Admitted Homeschoolers
Colleges (A-G) (two-year and four-year) with neither open admission nor highly selective admission policies reported to have admitted homeschooled applicants.
Colleges (H-S) Reported to Have Admitted Homeschoolers
Colleges (H-S) (two-year and four-year) with neither open admission nor highly selective admission policies reported to have admitted homeschooled applicants.
Colleges (T-Z) Reported to Have Admitted Homeschoolers
Colleges (T-Z) (two-year and four-year) with neither open admission nor highly selective admission policies reported to have admitted homeschooled applicants.
Open Admission Colleges That Have Admitted Homeschoolers
Open-admission colleges (two-year and four-year) known to have admitted homeschooled applicants.
Financial Aid for College Study
How to get money for college study, especially for homeschoolers.
Sources for the Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers FAQ
The research base for the Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers FAQ.
Books on College Admission and Student Financial Aid
Bibliography page for the Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers FAQ, with interesting books about various aspects of college study.

[Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers FAQ last revision 02 December 2000]

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You can now interact with Cafi Cohen, other parents, and me in a Web-based threaded discussion devoted specifically to High School and College Tips for Home Educators [link to a different Web site], which Cafi and I host on a third-party Web site. I welcome your participation there (www.kaleidoscapes.com/colleges/). The Kaleidoscapes site was recognized as one of the best homeschooling sites in the world by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine in its November 1997 issue at page 106 and has since received several other Web site awards.

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Sites That Recommend This FAQ

This FAQ is linked to by LookSmart [link to a different Web site], the Open Directory Colleges and Universities: Admissions [link to a different Web site] directory, and various About.com directories.

The Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers FAQ was also recommended as a useful on-line resource in the July-August 1997 issue of Home Education Magazine [link to a different Web site]. This FAQ resulted in a recommendation of this Web site in a sidebar to Newsweek magazine's October 5, 1998 cover story about homeschooling, "Learning at Home: Does It Pass the Test?" by Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert. It is cited in an online version of an article [link to a different Web site] in Education Week and recommended in the on-line edition of a U.S. News and World Report article published on October 16, 2000 [link to a different Web site].

Homeschooling organizations and alternative education resource sites in various places, including

recommend this FAQ as a source of college admission information for home-schooling families, and the National Home Education Network recommends this page to journalists on the NHEN FAQ page [link to a different Web site].

Please see the large list of pages that link to this site for links to other Web pages that link to the Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers FAQ.

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