Can't neglect to admit that his parents also showed wisdom and love commitment for home schooling him.
Excellence is that for which America used to stand. Since the teacher's union has taken over the education of our children we have a sad result.
Even more sad is the fact that they appear to have been successful in keeping major colleges and universities from admitting many excellent home-schooled students even though their SAT scores are higher, their knowledge level is deeper and their activity level is broader.
I expect, longterm, to see many of those same colleges and universities lose funding and reputation to the schools that do accept the best students regardless of what the source of their precollege education. All that a bunch of them have left is a good PR group for a relatively empty shell education.
When young, tiny Patrick Henry College recently won the moot court competition in "merry olde", beating out Oxford in their own Nation with their own British judges it underscored the point that excellence isn't necessarily named Harvard or Yale, neither of which had accomplished such a feat to my knowledge.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1301378/posts .
Even more sad is the fact that they appear to have been successful in keeping major colleges and universities from admitting many excellent home-schooled students even though their SAT scores are higher, their knowledge level is deeper and their activity level is broader.My kid is 17 and was homeschooled until he reached 10th grade, now he takes classes at the community college.
This summer he's finishing out his credits for his AA and needed a couple Humanities credits, so he's taking them through the school's online program.
He was having a hard time logging into "turnitin.com" (an interesting little website where students submit their work for their prof's to view, and it identifies any plagarism that is found in the work).
Anyway, the prof gave him a call to tell my son that he had gone ahead and set up an account for him at "turnitim", but since my son wasn't home, I spoke to the prof.
He asked me if he was "dual credit" and remarked on the number of courses he'd taken, and then he asked where he had attended school.
I answered that he had been homeschooled up until 10th grade, and his remark, "My best students are homeschooled kids."
I really hadn't heard that homeschooled kids were having trouble getting into Universities. At least not the homeschooled kids I'm aware of. In "Homeschooling for Excellence", one of the original handbooks for homeschooling, I believe all 4 of their kids got into Ivy League schools.