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Options after High School
Lee Binz, The HomeScholar
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Early Graduation• Graduating early
– What does it mean– What is the next step
• GED• Too many credits• Too much frustration• Graduation is not the end result• Graduation is the beginning of something else
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Options after High School• Post high school options with your high school student.• Community College• CollegePlus!• CLEP• Online classes• Working• University• Gap Year • Couch Potato• “Failure to launch”
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Community College Dual Enrollment• Rated “R” environment• Popular fad• Rule of thumb:
– When public university is not an option– When community college doesn’t fit your values– Community college would not be appropriate
• Strategies– Buddy system– Check the professor “RateMyProfessor.com”– Read the textbook in advance
• Grades are permanent – Failure is an option
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Community College Dual Enrollment• Community College Stories
– Academics• Lower academic requirements• Lower level classes • Sex sells• Unique view of passing
– World view• Music improvisation class• Pornography: bookstore, required reading, art content, foreign language, speech
– Ethics and morals • Adjudicated adults• Vulgar language
– Socialization• Public high school socialization issues• Additional unmoderated “adult” content
– Perfectionist and community college• Little effort earns an “A” • Tranition to university that requires effort• Depression
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Community College Dual Enrollment• Benefits
• Fiancé like Liz!
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Community College Dual Enrollment• Benefits
• Fiancé like Liz!• Outside documentation of your homeschool• Letters of recommendation• Save money on tuition • College policies vary widely• Fiancé like Liz!
• Check with friends• Listen for the “but….”• If the “but…” were attributed to a public high school
– Would you be tempted to send your child?
• It CAN happen to you– Stories from Oklahoma, Texas
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Community College• Community College after High School• Attend as an adult
– Classes open to all abilities– Relatively inexpensive– Remains a Rated “R” environment– Adult environment for adults learning skills
• Useful in certain situations– Playing catch-up with math or foreign language– Adult learners motivated to return to college– Attain an AA degree
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CLEP• College level subject tests• Save money on tuition• Homeschooling college• College policies vary widely • Follow behind
– Take CLEP when they can pass CLEP
• Planning ahead– Study new material and take tests in college subject
• Be sure you can pass
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CLEP• General Assessment
– CLEP Official Study Guide– Quick assessment
• Subject test in-depth preparation– REA Guides – Read the subject– Multiple sample tests
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• Relatively easy to take a few CLEPS• Complicated to coordinate additional details • See a Mentor
– Similar to how I mentor parents homeschooling high school– CollegePlus! will mentor the students homeschooling college
Woody RobertsonCollegePlus!
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• Distinct Advantages:– Time Savings– Increased Quality– Flexible– Cost Effective
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Doug PhillipsDavid Noebel Voddie Baucham Jeff Myers
Tim Echols
CollegePlus! Endorsers
Gary Demar R.C. Sproul Jr Kevin Swanson
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• Find out more—request information– Get free eBooks, audios, and videos– http://budurl.com/collegeplus
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CollegePlus!
Thank you!
Woody Robertson
Vice President of CollegePlus!
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Distance Learning
• Online college of today is equivalent to yesterday’s distance learning– Not a new phenomenon– Previously mailed in tests and papers– Now email or fax or online classes
• Resources– Accelerated Distance Learning– Bears Guide to Earning Degrees
by Distance Learning
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Working– Work may eventually lead to college– Debbie’s Story
• Starbuck’s to Business School
– De’Etta’s story • “Not going to college” courses harder
her "going to college” plan• Son working at Chick Fil A • Wanted to own one• Required a business degree• Decided THE WEEK BEFORE SCHOOL to go to college.• Easily passed entrance tests because of his high school
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Working– Plan for the best possible education
• Life skills• Work skills• Job skills
– “Always be prepared” means a "college prep" track
– Kids change their minds– Kids grow and mature– High school apprenticeships provide later
employment
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Attend a University• Preparation for college application • Plan college prep classes• Take PSAT• Find a college to visit • Take SAT or ACT• Choose a college • Apply
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Attend a University• Application is a PROCESS not a MOMENT– Application forms – Essay• Self-reflective• Technically perfect
– Letters of Recommendation– Financial Aid forms
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Gap Year• Increasingly common
– Favored by some colleges– More mature students
• Still considered a freshman– Do not take college course of any kind
• Defer enrollment– Accepted into college– Wait a year to attend– Don’t take a single college credit
• Apply after your year off as a transfer student• College policies vary widely
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Gap Year• Community service• Mission work• Work experience• Search for scholarships
– College Scholarships for high school credit
– Getting the BIG Scholarship– DoSomething.org– Qiang Culture and Language Preservation
http://www.dosomething.org/project/qiang-culture-and-language-preservation
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Couch Potato• Not the same as a Gap Year • Goal is growing up• Failure to launch• Avoid enabling dependency• Parenting Super Hero or Not?
– http://www.crosswalk.com/homeschool/11628692/
• "Ten Ways" e-Book– httP://www.heartlightministries.org/resources
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Question and Answer
www.TheHomeScholar.com