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I was home schooled from grades 10-12, and now I'm in college, which sucks royally. I was wondering: is there such thing as 'home college?' Is it possible to take all your classes in your own home? If anyone can provide any information on this, I would extremely appreciate it.

Some accredited colleges offer courses on the internet. Be carefull though. There are plenty of diploma mills that will just sell you a degree that isn't woth the paper it's printed on.

I was home schooled from grades 10-12, and now I'm in college, which sucks royally. I was wondering: is there such thing as 'home college?' Is it possible to take all your classes in your own home? If anyone can provide any information on this, I would extremely appreciate it.
havent you heard of online degrees. You should have! Just look anywhere online,but I think it reguires a webcam.

I was home schooled from grades 10-12, and now I'm in college, which sucks royally. I was wondering: is there such thing as 'home college?' Is it possible to take all your classes in your own home? If anyone can provide any information on this, I would extremely appreciate it.
Long ago in a country far, far away, auto-diadects could become doctors and lawyers. (It was called "reading for the Bar")

Now, however, unless you are willing to shell out for an "online degree" which is worth precicely nothing in the "real world" you are pretty much forced to go into debt at a Uni in hopes of getting ahead.

Just go to a real University... Home School isn't worth it anyway, and sadly you had to go through it (like me). Don't take chances and ruin the rest of your life with Home College.

Even if you're doing Accredited Online Courses, you'll still be missing out on a lot of stuff... I know I am...

there is another way to get a degree form your "home". it is called cleping out. basicly all you do is study for a test in the class you want to take. you pay about $50 give or take and tkae the test. it is a pass fail credit i beleve but don't quote me on it.

You can take some classes online. Most of them require reading something, then writing a paper on it and turning it in on a certain date. Sometimes they'll schedule times that you have to be online for chat conversations, or have a message board set up where you can interact with the professor and other people.

My aunt is a working single mother who frequently doesn't get home until 10 at night, yet her job requires her to take courses to keep her up to date. So, rather than trying to make time to actually go to class, she takes the online courses.

I would be careful about doing an entire degree online.

I was home schooled from grades 10-12, and now I'm in college, which sucks royally. I was wondering: is there such thing as 'home college?' Is it possible to take all your classes in your own home? If anyone can provide any information on this, I would extremely appreciate it.

Just go to a huge school where they have large classes and don't take attendance. Get a syllabus and only show up for exams.

NB, don't take anything with a lab course.

I was home schooled from grades 10-12, and now I'm in college, which sucks royally. I was wondering: is there such thing as 'home college?' Is it possible to take all your classes in your own home? If anyone can provide any information on this, I would extremely appreciate it.

well, i'm currently going to university and i can't stay concentrated for longer timeintervals. I simply stay home a lot and try to study when i feel like it. I'll try to go to some lessons tho. I just have to make sure to do well on my exams.

There's an 'Open University' here in the UK, whereby you can study at home, either through books or - if you prefer - via the internet. It's not cheap, though, but its degrees are fully recognised and valued. I don't know if there's such a thing in the States, but I should imagine there's something similar. Good luck.

i would also have to agree with Poteria. just go to a university. it is worth more than just an education.

There's an 'Open University' here in the UK, whereby you can study at home, either through books or - if you prefer - via the internet. It's not cheap, though, but its degrees are fully recognised and valued. I don't know if there's such a thing in the States, but I should imagine there's something similar. Good luck.

Heh, they used to be a real joke. Worse than Slough.

Thanks, everyone.

...Unless you plan on becoming the Mole Man, -go to Uni-.

It's psychologically healthy.

What is it you don't like? I mean, you really aren't likely to be able to go through your entire life and career just doing everything in your own home, unless you pursue (and obtain) a career as a reclusive poet or something. So university is the perfect place for you to learn the interactive skills you will need to get on in the real world.

It may take some getting used to if you aren't accustomed to being around other people, but it will be an invaluable part of your education, and there's no way you can ever learn it by logging into an online class.

This is the best online school that I know of: clickey (http://www.phoenixdegrees.com/UPX_3544/home.cgi?siteID=0000617056&mediaNum=0000124982&otrm=461706)

Becareful with the online degrees. I have worked for a couple companies that have blacklisted them on the resumes. People tended not to know their stuff so they don't bother anymore.

Probably the only one I haven't seen on a blacklist is phoenix.....

now I'm in college, which sucks royally

what part of college sucks?

what part of college sucks?

I dunno, it's just boring. Plus, I have no friends there, so it gets pretty lonely.

I dunno, it's just boring. Plus, I have no friends there, so it gets pretty lonely.

It's trite but try some of the campus clubs.

You might try the dorm life as well. I met my wife in one! ;)

If you are home colleged you're going to definitely miss the life experience. Part of going to HS and college is to learn the lessons that come with them, albeit 3/4 of them suck but it's a fact of life.

I dunno, it's just boring. Plus, I have no friends there, so it gets pretty lonely.

i can actually relate. i moved from chicago to idaho at the start of second semester into an apartment by myself - pretty much assures a lack of adequate opportunity to meet people.

and for some reason, grad school has bored me. a lot.

I'm doing online courses and mostly like them, two things to understand, 1. some exams may be proctored, meaning you must show up at the computer lab at your college by a certain deadline to take exams. 2. the work is often far harder than in face to face classes.
I have a mix of online and f2f classes, and frankly there are good and bad sides to both.
A comment on homeschooling,it looks like what they say about socialization and homeschooling applies.
You have to learn how to concentrate and be among people sometime, this is when, or you'll have a hard time with the Wonderful World of Work!