Hi EB
I'm sure the homeschoolers will chime in soon but I thought I would offer the college and professor's view. We see homeschoolers for a wide variety of reasons, illness, religion, sports, etc and in my experience they have been wonderful students. I had an olympic level fencer once and I asked him about the differences and he said he enjoyed listening to the professor and other points of view but found it also very slow to be in lecture for a set time and on a set syllabi schedule. As for the socialized side,I have a lot of poorly socialized individuals LOL and I can't tell you who is homeschooled and who isn't.
Admissions-wise I cannot say for certain but my understanding is that the tests are the leveler - the same way the MCATs or LSATs provide med and law schools a means to determine if students from Timbuktu U are equivalent to Harvard. I suspect that documenting the schooling is also important since you won't have a standardized transcript.but there are so many more nowadays that the discrimination is not there - or at least that is my impression.
I wouldn't let college admissions stop you if you are considering doing it, but others might have a different point of view.
DeHe
