Students laboring through high school might be interested to know that most colleges do not require applicants to have a high school diploma.
Admission officers are experts at evaluating students from an enormous range of educational backgrounds. Why should the process be any different for home schoolers ?
The same goes for unschoolers, explains Lee Ann Dmochowski, an admissions officer at Rutgers. “Unschoolers,” she says, are part of a growing movement contending that learning is best achieved in an unstructured environment dictated by each student’s interests.
Dmochowski is a panelist at an information session on college admissions for non-traditional students sponsored by the Princeton Learning Cooperative on Monday, September 10, at 7 p.m. at the Princeton Friends School. Other panelists are Terri Reindeau of Princeton University and Nicole Hover of Mercer County Community College. Call 609-851-2522 for more information on this free event.
The Princeton Learning Cooperative is also sponsoring the next event in Princeton Friends School’s ongoing educational series, Outside the Box.
A screening of “Schooling the World” takes place Wednesday, October 3, at 7 p.m. at the Princeton Arts Council. Suggested donation is $5. The documentary film takes a challenging, sometimes funny, but ultimately disturbing look at the effects of Western educational models when they are introduced into sustainable indigenous cultures.
College Admissions for Non-Traditional Students, Princeton Friends School, 470 Quaker Road, Princeton. Monday, September 10, 7 p.m. 609-851-2522.
Schooling Outside the Box, Arts Council of Princeton, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton. Wednesday, October 3, 7 p.m.
