February 21, 2003

When Home-Schooled Students Apply to College

To the Editor:

I see one gaping hole in the government's proposal about admitting home-schooled students to college ("A Growing Force," January 17). Do home-schooled students present transcripts to colleges' admissions offices? There's important information in a transcript that isn't in scores on standardized tests: the courses the student has taken. ...

If a student has a passing grade on a transcript for physics, it's easy to see that the applicant has met a minimal science

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