[Do not dub me shapka broham]

City Journal printed a fascinating piece several years ago, which essentially validated that line of reasoning.

While, from a purely technical standpoint, there's little difference between a General Equivalency Diploma and one acquired through the traditional route-in fact, I believe that most noncompetitive colleges consider their relative merit to be equal, in most regards-there is a world of difference in practical terms.

Someone who has been out of the classroom for years is going to have a much harder time adjusting to routine college-level courses than someone who has recently graduated from high school.

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"Someone who has been out of the classroom for years is going to have a much harder time adjusting to routine college-level courses than someone who has recently graduated from high school."

Maybe, but our experience with our daughter went: homeschooled until fifteen, community college for three years, Rice University. Rice is a competitive college with only 25% of applicants being accepted and only 10% of transfer students being accepted.