How to Save $56,000 in Your Spare Time!
Two summers ago, my children worked for one month and saved our family $56,000. How did they do it? By homeschooling college in their spare time! Not bad for a summer job!! This lens is about homeschooling college, and how you can save your family a fortune in college expenses using a few very simple but little known strategies.
Blessings,
Lee, The HomeScholar
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Table of Contents for Homeschooling College
- CLEP Exams for Fun and Profit
- Is the CLEP or AP Better for Homeschooling Students
- Gap Year?
- On-line College Rankings
- Do Community Colleges Accept Clep Credits?
- Financial Attitutes of Homeschooling Families
- Cheers from Clients!
- More from The HomeScholar Helper Blog
- Great Resources for Homeschooling College
- New YouTube vids
- Homeschooling College Poll
- You Tube on Affording College
- Other HomeScholar Sites
- Grades on AP and CLEP Exams
- Check Out the New HomeScholar Blog!
- More Homeschool Blogs
- Things to Do Before You Leave!
- Reader Feedback
- More Lenses from The HomeScholar
- The HomeScholar on Twitter
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CLEP Exams for Fun and Profit
Who Takes CLEP Exams?
Right there on the brochure it said: "Who takes CLEP? A homeschooled 15-year-old." I felt somewhat reassured when I walked into the test center, knowing that my son couldn't be THAT unusual, since his demographic was right on the brochure. And imagine my surprise! Within the month, my son obtained college credit in "Principles of Marketing" and "Business Law" and yet I had never purchased marketing or law curriculum! How does that happen, exactly? As a homeschool parent, you may know what your children have been taught, but you may not realize what they know. There is a place where knowledge reigns supreme. A place where you can also discover their hidden learning -- your local CLEP testing center.(Read complete article)
Is the CLEP or AP Better for Homeschooling Students
Q&A with The HomeScholar
>>>>Can you compare AP and CLEP exams? Why did you choose CLEP?<<<<Gap Year?
Should your child have a 'gap year' before college?Some students need a break after high school - and some colleges approve.
Read more about getting off the treadmill for awhile.
On-line College Rankings
A note from a reader
We just published our second Annual Online College Rankings at:
http://oedb.org/rankings
For each college, we gathered data for eight different metrics: acceptance rate, financial aid, graduation rate, peer Web citations, retention rate, scholarly citations, student-faculty ratio, and years accredited. The overall ranking ranks each college by its average ranking for each metric for which data was available.
As a respected blogger, we'd love to get your feedback on the results or our methodology. And if you think your readers would find the rankings useful, any coverage would also be appreciated. Either way,
keep up the great blogging!
Cheers,
Amy S. Quinn
Do Community Colleges Accept Clep Credits?
A client writes: "In Florida, the state universities have a reciprocal policy with the community colleges if complete your AA. So, we'll probably go that route and do his AA via CLEP and dual enrollment."(Read my response here)
Financial Attitutes of Homeschooling Families
Where do you fit in?
Cheers from Clients!
Lee,I think Landon's transcript that you did for me is excellent. I just made two copies because he is applying at two colleges today. I am very grateful for all your help, I was really panicking and desperately wanted to do it right, I feel incredible relief now to know that it is done and looks so professional. Today I viewed your dvd about scholarships. I took four pages of notes, it was just full of good information. Thankfully I can watch it again to be sure I did not miss anything. I look forward to seeing the other dvd Finding a College. I may watch it tomorrow, we need to get this done asap.
~Linda in Washington
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New YouTube vids
"College Preparation" Presentation
Excerpt of The HomeScholar speaking to Labyrinth Homeschool co-op on College Preparation in May 2008.
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Homeschooling College Poll
You Tube on Affording College
Some Great Tips from Gary North
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You can: (1) cut $25,000 (or more) off your college costs. (2) cut the time required to 3 years (or less). I offer 7 ways to earn a fully accredited college degree, cheap and fast. This is better than winning a scholarship: no B-average to maintain. This is not a sales pitch! The full details (free) are here: www.LowestCostColleges.com
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Grades on AP and CLEP Exams
"Lee,I read with interest your article on CLEP exams and have a question. How does taking the exams affect your GPA in college? I understand that in some instances you can get college credit for passing the exams, but are you assigned a grade that factors into your GPA?
Thank you, Maureen"
Hi Maureen,
I'm glad you found the article useful to you! Every college has its own unique policy about CLEP exams, and some colleges give a grade that affects GPA and other's give credit but not grade, and others don't give credit but do give placement into upper level classes. 3 of the schools we applied for provided CLEP credits, but none of them gave a grade, so our GPA was not affected. I haven't read about many college giving an actual GRADE for a CLEP exams.
In contrast, AP exams usually do have a grade that is applied. Generally for an AP exam, a score of 5 (perfect) is an A, 4 is B, 3 is C, and less is not given college credit. I do know one homeschool student who took an AP exam and scored a respectable 4. She was disappointed, though, because that was the only "B" for her entire college career.You might want to check the colleges your student might apply for, and see what they have for their own unique policy.
I wish I could give you a more direct answer to your question, but each college makes up their own rules. I can suggest a website that provides some free lessons plans for CLEP study available online: clepprep.tripod.com. I hope that helps!
Blessings,
Lee
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