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Can homeschoolers successfully navigate the path to college?The answer is an enthusiastic "Yes!"If you love homeschooling but need a clear road map for the journey from high school to college, this is the book for you.You'll appreciate this practical, detailed guide that walks you step by step through the entire process-from the beginning of middle school to the day you give your college freshman one last goodbye hug.Countless "how to" tips packed into 440 pages will relieve stress as you creatively design a high school program strong enough to stand up to even the most rigorous admissions process.You'll discover how to use the middle school years to jump-start your high school planning, how to create customized curricula, and how to find materials, support, and sources for courses-often in the most unlikely places!You'll gain confidence in keeping orderly records, calculating GPAs, and constructing professional-looking transcripts and portfolios.
About the Author
Denise Boiko and her husband, Ron, homeschooled both of their children from kindergarten through high school. With acceptances to multiple colleges, their daughter earned two biology degrees at Stanford University before going on to medical school, and their son chose the University of Southern California, earning an engineering degree. Since then, Denise has successfully walked more than 150 homeschooled and traditionally schooled students through the college admissions process, with acceptances to universities such as MIT, Columbia, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Duke, and Rice. As a speaker at homeschool workshops, and in one-on-one sessions, Denise loves to partner with homeschooling parents and lend a hand as they construct customized curricula, create credible transcripts, and craft compelling counselor letters.Homeschooled & Headed for College was written to help other homeschoolers benefit from the many years of research and personal experience that facilitated the Boiko students' admission into selective colleges. With a degree in biology and a lifelong passion for writing, Denise has taught biology, composition, and literature since 2006 at a local homeschool academy and at other homeschool class sites. Since she seeks to make these subjects come alive, a classroom visitor might witness a mock-up of the Berlin Wall, an Ides of March party to conclude Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, or a lively model of the cell's plasma membrane, composed entirely of teenagers. In her pockets of spare time, Denise enjoys making friends with neighborhood cats (especially black ones) , baking lemon bars and peanut butter-oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies for the holidays, watching old Monk crime drama episodes, creating colorful quilts, meeting former students for coffee, and reading dozens of books while running on the treadmill or climbing the never-ending stepmill.Connect with Denise!Website: https://HomeschoolRoadMap.com Email: contact@homeschoolroadmap.com to receive a free tip sheet, "Top Twenty Tips for Homeschooling the College Bound Student"Facebook: @HomeschooledAndHeadedForCollege
