Colleges Coveting Homeschoolers

Good article from the CBS News site:

Colleges Coveting Home-Schooled Students

Subtitle: Colleges Aggressively Competing for Home-Schoolers in Quest for Best Students

“Home-schooled students – whose numbers in this country range from an estimated 1.1 million to as high as 2 million – often come to college equipped with the skills necessary to succeed in higher education, said Regina Morin, admissions director of Columbia College. Such assets include intellectual curiosity, independent study habits and critical thinking skills, she said. ‘It’s one of the fastest-growing college pools in the nation,’ she said. ‘And they tend to be some of the best prepared.’”

It’s worth clicking over to read the entire article.

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