Chelsea Link, 18, Homeschooled, Accepted to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, U of Chicago, and Northwestern
April 30, 2008 — Tammy TakahashiChelsea Link says this about her extraordinary, yet relaxed, life: “I think I’ve had a pretty normal high school experience . . . just without the high school.”
Another interesting quote by Christopher Watson, admissions dean at Northwestern, “We haven’t changed the way we review applications, but the way home-schoolers are submitting applications has changed,” he said. “They’ve become very good at taking out the question marks.”
Perhaps it’s a combination of the two? Northwestern may not have changed it’s admissions process, but other universities have.
Congratulations Chelsea! Reading science magazines and playing music is a fine way to go through childhood.
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April 30, 2008 at 4:00 pm
[...] changing admittance process for homeschooled students Tammy at Just Enough had a post today about a young woman from the Chicago area, Chelsea Link, who was accepted to all seven of [...]
April 30, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I’m not sure how to feel about this one…..
I had a feeling she was gifted….those schools don’t take the average kid, and she is by no means your average kid.
Dang, I’m going to sound whiney but I’d like to have money to go to Tibet and France….every Summer!!!
It will play well to have a homeschooler accepted to so many top notch schools, but she would have no matter where she went to school.
April 30, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Ugh - I think we need to take homeschooling back from the overachievers…the goal of homeschooling is not to get into all the best colleges, you know - though I certainly don’t begrudge Chelsea her smarts or her success. It’s just that the point of her homeschooling is that it made her an interesting person who was able to explore her passions, not that she was admitted to “top” schools.
April 30, 2008 at 7:30 pm
congratulations to her… we need to protect the right of parents to homeschool their kids