How does U.Va. evaluate home-schooled applicants?
We welcome applications from home-schooled students, just as we welcome applications from students educated in other, more traditional settings. While we work hard to evaluate the credentials of all our applicants, it is true that the credentials of home-schooled applicants present an unusual challenge, simply because they often lack the contextualizing information that conventional transcripts, grades, ranks in class, and curricula can provide. While we do not require that home-schooled applicants take any special steps in our admission process, we do recommend that they try as best they can to help us see their academic performance in the clearest possible context. In recent years successful home-schooled applicants have chosen one (and usually several) of the following methods: taking courses in a local college; joining organizations in their community; providing samples of academic projects (e.g., essays, research papers, articles) they have completed; sending multiple recommendati
We welcome applications from home-schooled students, just as we welcome applications from students educated in other, more traditional settings. While we work hard to evaluate the credentials of all our applicants, it is true that the credentials of home-schooled applicants present an unusual challenge, simply because they often lack the contextualizing information that conventional transcripts, grades, ranks in class, and curricula can provide. While we do not require that home-schooled applicants take any special steps in our admission process, we do recommend that they try as best they can to help us see their academic performance in the clearest possible context. In recent years successful home-schooled applicants have chosen one (and usually several) of the following methods: taking courses in a local college; joining organizations in their community; providing samples of academic projects (e.g., essays, research papers, articles) they have completed; sending multiple recommendati
