Is a high school diploma really necessary?
No. Maybe. Yes. Consider the following four things. 1. COLLEGE ADMISSIONS Colleges accept homeschoolers with good SAT scores and good records verifying their work. BUT, homeschoolers have to jump through different hoops, more hoops. Homeschool records are not standardized and pose problems for admissions officers, requiring special attention, which they can interpret as annoying — it takes more time, they have to do the conversions of credits, homeschoolers get defensive when their records are challenged, etc., etc. Some admissions officers have had unpleasant experiences with defensive parents when they asked questions about the homeschool program. And some have heard the horror stories of the lack of understandable recordkeeping which homeschoolers bring to a college. In contrast, however, homeschool records standardized through NARS, aren’t even questioned. The NARS records complete the student’s application. Period. To the admissions people, it is another qualified applicant from
