How does Carolina evaluate home-schooled students?
We welcome applications from students schooled at home and impose on those students no special or extra requirements. At the same time, it’s important for home-schooled students to recognize that their credentials may lack some or most of the contextualizing information typically found in the transcripts, grades, and academic programs of students schooled in other, more traditional settings. For that reason, we recommend that home-schooled students do their best to help us see their academic performance in the clearest possible light. In recent years successful home-schooled applicants have chosen one or more of the following methods: taking courses in a local college or community college; joining organizations in their community; providing samples of their academic projects (for example, essays or research papers) and detailed descriptions of their courses; sending more than one recommendation from non-family-members who know them well and can comment specifically on their capacity fo
