Blake Boles

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 146a: Self-Directed Learning Advocate Blake Boles on Unschooling · 9 Dec 2022 podcast

Some schools might do ACT instead.

You have to show that you've covered the bases.

And so what a lot of unschoolers do is that they enroll in community college classes.

Almost every community college will let you enroll starting at age 16.

Many of them you can start younger.

And most unschoolers I know take a few part-time community college classes.

And if you end up with a class in English and a class in math and a class in history, and you have decent grades in those classes...

then essentially most four-year universities are convinced that you can handle college-level work.

And anecdotally speaking, the kids I know who have gone on to universities, their number one comment is like, wait a second, I thought this was supposed to be harder.

There's a lot of people here who aren't taking this very seriously.

These kids are going to college because they have made a more serious, more informed, more consensual choice to go there instead of what a lot of kids do, which is just they're checking off the next box.

And so unschoolers tend to do very well in college.

And, you know, they're not going to Ivy Leagues in droves.

You shouldn't unschool if you have this hidden wish to, you know, ensure that your kid will get into every top college.

If you want to do that, then send them to the best prep school that money can buy.

That's what wealthy families do.

And so unschoolers do go to college.

They go to all sorts and all ranges of colleges.

There's no big barriers there.

And they don't have problems integrating or socializing or handling the academics as long as they've had a little bit of exposure to formal academics before that.

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