College Prep

Deped Alternative Learning System – A System Fit for Homeschoolers

Jun 26, 2015 | Posted by in College Prep, Filipino Homeschool Issues, Homeschool, Homeschool High School | 4
Alternative Learning System for Homeschoolers

  This is an update of my previous post about Guitar Babe taking up DepEd ALS Exam. In my previous post, I wrote about how she was able to enroll in a college while she was waiting to take the exam. She took the exam last January 2015 and we waited with bated breath for the results. She was not very confident because she had a hard time with some of the Tagalog words. She admitted that there was a whole section of the exam that she just couldn’t understand because of the Tagalog statements. Don’t get me wrong please: my kids speak both English and Tagalog well but when it comes to deep-level Tagalog…Read more …

Ebook Review: Countdown to College – A Homeschoolers’ Guide to Winning Scholarships by Kim Anderson

Oct 25, 2009 | Posted by in All Product Reviews, College Prep, Ebook Reviews | 0

Countdown to College – A Homeschoolers’ Guide to Winning Scholarships, authored by Kim Anderson, a homeschool mom who has been there. With her guidance, her two daughters earned nearly a million dollars in scholarships. In this ebook, she gives valuable insight and advice to helping your homeschooled child get ready for college, search for scholarships, prepare a portfolio and develop relationships with mentors who can give the student a solid recommendation. This valuable guide is filled not just with ideas but actual information on which organizations your child can join to build up her portfolio. She talks about the value of acquiring a college education for your sons and daughters. She also details here an…Read more …

Ebook Review: College Success Begins at HOME

Sep 1, 2009 | Posted by in All Product Reviews, College Prep, Ebook Reviews, TOS ebooks | 2

This year, my eldest is 14 years old. A few years from now, she’ll be entering college. We’ve been talking about it a lot and she already has a vision for what she wants to do with her life. The question now is how can I prepare her for college life and learning and the real life that she will soon be entering. These things plus teaching her the higher levels of math and science have been preying on my mind for months. I have been praying constantly about it, considering that even I had some problems with my higher level math and science, specifically trigonometry and physics. It’s a scary time for me right…Read more …