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My daughter enters Patrick Henry College next fall.

Wow! You must be so proud. I think that Patrick Henry aggressively pursues homeschoolers, and the student body includes a healthy percentage (if not a majority) of homeschoolers.

The SAT scores of their freshman class are level with those of the Ivy League. They've won debating contests against Oxford. All indications are that this is a top notch University.

I think they've focused on Law/Pre-Law, but I believe they're are expanding the School of Journalism, which can only be a good thing.

Thank you. Again, we're very proud of her. Actually, PHC is about 90% homeschoolers (there are about 275 students on campus). It was started by Michael Farris (founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association). She took a summer class at PHC when she was 15. It was Constitutional Law and was taught by Dr. Farris himself, who has argued before the Supreme Court and who was in the Oval Office when the Partial Birth Abortion ban was signed by Bush. He gave her an A+ on the final and asked her to consider coming to school there. It was one of her proudest achievements (along with her 1560 SAT and being named a National Merit Scholar - well, there I go bragging again . . . ). But the quality of kids going to PHC is extremely high, and they consider themselves the equal of any Ivy League school in terms of students and learning.