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College Without High School: A Teenager's Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College |  | Author: Blake Boles
Publisher: New Society Publishers
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 304379
Media: Paperback
Pages: 176
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 0865716552
Dewey Decimal Number: 370
EAN: 9780865716551
ASIN: 0865716552
Publication Date: September 1, 2009
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What would you do if you could go to college without going to high school? Would you travel abroad, spend late nights writing a novel, volunteer in an emergency room, or build your own company? What dreams would you be pursuing right now? College Without High School shows how independent teens can self-design their high school education by becoming unschooled. Students begin by defining their goals and dreams and then pursue them through a combination of meaningful and engaging adventures. It is possible to pursue your dreams and gain admission to any college of your choice. The guidebook shows how to fulfill college admission requirements by proving five preparatory results: intellectual passion, leadership, logical reasoning, background knowledge, and the capacity for structured learning. The author, who leads teenage unschoolers on educational adventures, offers several suggestions for life-changing, confidence-building activities that will demonstrate those results. This intriguing approach to following your dreams and doing college prep on your own terms will be welcomed by students (and their parents). Blake Boles switched from being an astrophysics major at UC Berkeley to graduating cum laude with a degree in Alternative Schooling. He is founder and trip leader of Unschool Adventures, which offers innovative trips to teenage unschoolers. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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 Not what I was looking for... October 8, 2009
J. Lynde (Central California)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book describes ways in which homeschooled/unschooled kids can document their suitability for prestigious colleges with limited enrollment, and it has good ideas for accomplishing that. For kids who plan to begin college in junior college or a local college with open enrollment, this is irrelevant. As an unschooling mother, I was looking for suggested benchmarks, a way to reassure myself and child that he is sufficiently prepared to do college work. This book did not cover that material.
 Easy to read & packed with great examples September 13, 2009
Allen Ellis (Pennsylvania, USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
College Without High School is a great, short read that I flew through in a few hours on my last plane trip. As a young adult preparing for college, this was a refreshing glimpse at the multitudes of possibilities I have this day in age preparing for college. Boles illustrates countless ways to lead a life filled with self-motivated, educational-packed adventures that free the soul and impress college admissions officers at the same time.
By spending your teenage years away from a traditional high school environment and instead chasing down your passions face-first, the prospects of being accepted into a college or university don't crumble, they flourish. Having the ability to prove your interest in a subject with real-world experience, combined with Bole's great tips to study for standardized testing, can set you bounds ahead of the same-old AP and SAT scores that are all today's high-school students have to show for their years of classroom study.
Boles encourages fantastic educational opportunities in not only the academic sense, but in nurturing critical skills such as leadership and logical reasoning, among others, and why these are key to excel this day in age.
The entire book is full of practical examples at every discussion, and wraps everything in the language you need to convey your breadth of abilities to college admissions officers.
I highly enjoyed this read and feel inspired to seriously get out there and thrust my education forward: straight towards my goals.
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