Dyslexia and dysgraphia are both learning disorders that don’t reflect intelligence, but do present challenges for regular academic activities like reading and writing. I’m thrilled to share how Liz helped her 13-year old son crush 5 CLEP exams despite his challenges.
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Hopefully our story can inspire others hit by Covid or other health issues. After 2 years, we had not done any schoolwork. Thank you for encouraging me. It helped me not to give up on our son’s future. We have now charted out a plan to complete his Associate’s Degree before he turns 18 in June.
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We have had several testing experiences. My students have CLEP tested for Biology, Algebra and Calculus. We have also had an unsuccessful CLEP. I’m happy to share what we have learned.
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I was barely more than an un-schooling mom in practice, and my oldest was barely middle school aged at the time, but when my sister-in-law sent me a link to Jennifer’s book Homeschooling for College Credit, the light bulb went off and that started the ball rolling. She earned 41 college credits and a full scholarship covering her first 2 years of college at the University of South Carolina.
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HS4CC dad Gordon F. gets honest about how his son earned college credits, what it cost, why they chose the college they did, and how their boy graduated with his associate degree this month!
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Shared with deep gratitude to Misti our HS4CC Kentucky moderator, for her willingness to share her 17 year old daughter’s amazing story of finishing her BS at Liberty University!
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We’ve had so many great stories to share this month! When you Homeschool for College Credit, you bring the goal post closer. Many families have sent me graduation stories that help us all appreciate resourceful high school planning at its best.
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With gratitude, I’d like to thank our HS4CC Military Facebook Group Moderator Jennifer Tillson, for sharing each and every wonderful detail of her daughter’s classes and cost breakdown for her homeschooling program and graduation! Bella’s story is an example of how one mom followed her daughter’s gifts and talents and went all in. I know you’ll enjoy reading this as much as I have!
Share with deep gratitude to Courtney, our HS4CC Pennsylvania moderator, for her willingness to share her daughter’s amazing story.
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Genevieve, HS4CC parent from Illinois writes, “I’m happy to share my son’s story about Homeschooling. He’ll be graduating from high school this year with 30 college credits!”
Continue reading “Happy Story: Homemade Scholarship from IL”I’m thankful when parents send me their stories, and I’m especially thankful when they are honest and transparent with the CHALLENGES they’ve encountered along the way. It is especially important to acknowledge that earning college credit can be hard work, but finishing a degree (in high school no less) is exceptionally hard! I hope you’ll read this young man’s Homeschooling for College Credit journey. He just graduated! Thanks to his mom Jamie G. for allowing me to share it with you!
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I want to introduce you to a rising 12th grader named Mary Margaret. I met her mom before COVID, back when my local public library allowed me to give free college workshops to the homeschool community in person. Since my audience is typically only adults, it’s always a pleasant surprise to meet a teen, but I had no idea…
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I love when parents send in their teen’s stories- it always feels so inspirational to read how they made it happen. Today’s share is from Brenna whose son Homeschooled for College Credit in high school and is now a college graduate at age 18! Student loan debt: $0
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I received this message from Lisa F. through our Facebook page…
“I just wanted to share my Homeschooling for College Credit stories with two different children.
My older son is 21 and a junior in college. He was diagnosed with high-functioning autism finally at age 18. This diagnosis afforded him accommodations as a college student, including a reduced course load (18 hours per year versus 30) requirement that allowed him to still keep his state and university scholarships. However, the scholarships are still only valid for four years (8 semesters). We didn’t know when he started taking dual enrollment classes back in high school that he would eventually need this accommodation, but it has honestly been the most useful one for him. He earned 34 credit hours in high school taking college classes at the local technical college. So, even though he has not taken over 12 hours any single semester, and only 9 in several semesters, he is still on track to graduate on time. All of his dual enrollment fees and books cost me less than $700. He should graduate college with less than $10k in student loans.
Normally these scholarships wouldn’t be enough to cover two majors, but because he did so much credit in high school, he will finish both degrees in five semesters.
Lisa F.
My younger son is neurotypical but he’s your typical second kid who only works hard if it’s something that interests him, and the one I had to beg and plead and threaten to get to do his schoolwork. He started taking dual enrollment classes in 10th grade and surprise surprise he worked much harder for those college professors than he ever did for me. By the end of 10th grade, he already had earned almost enough high school credits to graduate, so he decided to graduate high school early (this year). This past year he has taken a full college course load plus completed two homeschool classes he still needed for high school graduation. He is already in the computer science program at the local university and will be a “freshman” there this coming fall. He has been asked to work as a Teaching Assistant and tutor in the computer science department this coming year. He graduated high school with 45 credit hours. He has decided to dual major in computer science and mathematics and has the same scholarships as his older brother. Normally these scholarships wouldn’t be enough to cover two majors, but because he did so much credit in high school, he will finish both degrees in five semesters. All of his dual enrollment fees and books cost me no more than $1000. He should graduate college with less than $5000 in student loan debt (and I’m hoping he’ll pay those back as he goes.)”
As the school year comes to an end, our normal monthly celebrations are not only including college credit celebrations, but GRADUATION stories too! Hannah Joy from Florida sent me her Homeschooling for College Credit graduation story, and while she gave me permission to cut and trim, I decided that each and every word she wrote was worth sharing. TEASER: Her degree from Liberty University came in under $8,000. She is an extraordinary young woman who took charge of her education in an extraordinary way. I hope you’ll take the time to read her story, celebrate with her, and find encouragement from her words. Bonus- she’s even taken the time to track EVERY CREDIT and every DOLLAR she spent for those who would like to develop a similar plan. Dig in!
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I am thrilled to share with you this homeschooling success story of how Sara used CLEP in her homeschool with her son Sean during 11th (and now 12th) grade. She posted her celebration inside our Illinois HS4CC Facebook group and gave me permission to share it with you here. I know you’ll find it as inspirational as I did!
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