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MADmex
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Is it me or does being homeschooled suck!!!

The only thing its good for is getting all your work done so you have a 6 month summer...
Oct 18 2011 8:59AM
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steezeknees
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A six month summer is cool but your friends arnt around. At least thats how my home schooling was.
Oct 18 2011 9:44AM
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MADmex
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ya but you have more time to hang ou with ur friends during the schoolyear too
Oct 18 2011 12:43PM
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KANGAROOJACK
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6 month summer?! fuck me, that's amazing!
Oct 18 2011 12:44PM
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seward
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im pretty sure you missquoted your sig, cause that last quote was from me in the "best things you found on the ground" thread.

Oct 18 2011 12:46PM
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steezeknees
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He done fucked up mayneee
Oct 18 2011 12:54PM
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MADmex
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haha r u the one who posted the hacker thread?
Oct 18 2011 12:58PM
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steezeknees
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Well i didnt post it i bumped it

Oct 18 2011 1:03PM
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Trace.
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This is my first year doing it in highschool, but so far I really like it. learning and doing work whenever I want is so nice, and knowing I can take classes not offered at my highschool is a huge benefit. socially yeah their's some drawbacks, but overall i'm still close with the friends I hung out with regularly before I left. I can't complain haha
Oct 18 2011 1:06PM
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SkiThe603
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Sucks a big dick
Oct 18 2011 1:08PM
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KendamaCo
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Reminds me of hooked on monkey phonics and that south park episode . "I'm just gonna lay in bed a little longer mom. Awwwesome"
Oct 18 2011 1:39PM
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introvert
Posts: 4718 - Karma: 1,482
I honestly love it.



I live right next to a school so I know plenty of kids, I get done school around 12, have lots of free time.




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Oct 18 2011 1:44PM
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seward
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how do you apply for universities?
Oct 18 2011 3:46PM
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MADmex
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same as regular school
Oct 18 2011 10:01PM
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roddy116
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here was my typical schedule when i was homeschooled during the winter.

7:30 get up eat and do math
9:00 do something else the was academic for two hourse
11:00 eat lunch
11:30 go ski
8:00 go home eat dinner go to bed and repeat

fucking awesome and whenever my freinds had off days so did I
Oct 18 2011 10:17PM
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Deluge
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Lol homeschool
Oct 18 2011 10:17PM
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seward
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sooo...... why dosnt everyone just get homeschooled for guaranteed exceptence to harvard?

i dunno, maybe homeschooling is big in the states, but i have absolutely zero understanding of how it would work.
who determines your marks?
Oct 19 2011 8:42AM
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introvert
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Sometimes you don't get them.


It really depends on who's teaching you. If you take online classes, then they grade you.
Oct 19 2011 8:48AM
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seward
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so sometimes you dont get marks, and then you go to apply to university, and they require a transcript, and then...........?

my question is, whats stopping people from saying ya i was homeschooled, i have a 5billion gpa, and then applying to yale for advanced nuclear quantom physics?
Oct 19 2011 9:05AM
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Corin
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Why would you want a 6 month summer? If I was being homeschooled I'd do all the work in the summer and fall and then have a 6 month winter/spring instead. That would be banger.
Oct 19 2011 9:14AM
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Funkadelic
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I have no idea what they would do about your absence of grades, but I would assume that your SAT/ACT scores would suggest you aren't fit to go to yale for advanced nuclear quantum physics.
Oct 19 2011 9:42AM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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nah, i know kids who did really well on the SAT's and didn't have a good GPA. Plus the SAT asks nothing about physics.
Oct 19 2011 9:46AM
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seward
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youre missing my question.

Oct 19 2011 10:16AM
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seward
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youre missing my question even more.... and if i had a facepalm.jpg handy i would post it now.
Oct 19 2011 10:16AM
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Funkadelic
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If you do shitty on the math part of the SAT, then I think it's safe to say you'd suck at physics. That's what I was getting at.


And to seward, I'm pretty sure I understand your question. I recognize that I have no idea what you'd do if a school asked for your transcript and you don't have one. I was just saying that if you had low SAT scores you won't get into Harvard if you claim your GPA is super high. But again, I still don't know what you would do if you can't provide a transcript. Just adding to the discussion.
Oct 19 2011 10:22AM
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pomme-de-terre
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one of my best friends was homeschooled his entire life. he got to snowboard every single day while we were all stuck in school, which is how i met him, because i graduated early so i could snowboard every single day while my friends were all stuck in school and there was always this really short kid at the mountain while i was there.
Oct 19 2011 10:28AM
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seward
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guys, drop the physics, it was just an example of an uber smart program that im fairly certain dosnt even exist.

and no, im pretty sure you dont understand my question. stop thinking about harvard, stop thinking about yale. how do you get into ANY school with NO MARKS. no marks = no gpa. and even if you do have a sat mark, surely they dont base your acceptence on that alone.
Oct 19 2011 10:30AM
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Funkadelic
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I know, I said I don't know. I was just saying that SAT scores would help.... just contributing to the conversation a while ago that has now gotten out of hand lol. I still do not know what to do if you don't have a transcript. I do understand your question, I don't know the answer though.
Oct 19 2011 10:33AM
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seward
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so i asked a question, and you quoted me, and replied, because you dont know the answer to my question.......?

lol, glad we got that all sorted out.
Oct 19 2011 10:36AM
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seward
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glad im not the only one who is confuzzed.
Oct 19 2011 11:20AM
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MADmex
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dude.... what im saying is im on online school. so i get grades. If i flunk/do not complete a corse i get an F. The same thing goes for if you do really well in a corse. Plus that other kid is right. If you are home/cyber schooled your SAT/ACT's are very important. And your right too some schools dont believe your GPA's so they make you take subject tests with your SAT/ACT's.

For me the reason im Cyber schooled is tennis. I am a good tennis player and i comunicate with big D1 college coaches. Even tho im homeschooled they will let me just take the SAT's and i can skip the other tests, but thats kinda off the subject. I just wanted to give an example of how u have proof of grades.
Oct 19 2011 11:22AM
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seward
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dude....

there is a big difference between homeschooled and taking online course's. homeschool, you are not enrolled in any school board, where as online, you are. just cause you do work at home, does not mean you are homeschooled.
if thats the case, then i was "homeschooled" for at least half of my post secondary career, cause i took all my electives online.

i never said he wasnt right, what i was asking is if you do not have a transcript, because you dont have a gpa, because you were homeschooled, does that now mean that a university will accept you solely on your SAT scores?

i took architectural engineering at a college in toronto. there was a kid in my program who was the first ever student to be accepted into the college who was homeschooled. Since he didnt have any marks from a registered provincial school board, they made him take a whole bunch of highschool equivalency tests to get into the college. which in my mind, completely defeats the purpose of being homeschooled in the first place.

again, what i am wondering, and no one has answered, is does every school use a similar practice? or can homeschooled kids be accepted to post secondary without any sort of marks or scores?

Oct 19 2011 11:38AM
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fujarome
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I have absolutely no clue if this is right or if it's how most do it...


Most colleges offer entrance exams that test your knowledge in all the subjects you'd have learned in a regular school. They use the results of those tests to determine if you're qualified to enter.


With that said, I've found homeschool kids to be hit or miss. They are really cool people you can be friends with....or absolute fuckin' weirdos who sit in the front of class eating their celery stick lunches.
Oct 19 2011 12:08PM
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