Most colleges will already accept a homeschooled student with a home-brewed transcript, letters of recommendation, volunteer or community service records and the results of a standardized test (SAT or ACT) -- that is fair -- some colleges may insist upon extra testing (SAT II) which is also fair -- my (non-homeschooled) son had to take those in order to be accepted to MIT
Most local community colleges will accept a homeschooled student who is still in high-school under a dual-enrollment or enrichment program...the student will have to take and perform well on entrance exams for such early placement...that is fair also
What is not fair are the new tests (called PASS in PA) that educrats have designed. Many of these focus on "subjects" with a PC/environmental/socialistic/humanistic emphasis, following the watered down public school curriculum -- my kids have been exposed to Latin and studied Shakespeare -- but they're not too up on why oil=evil, who we should throw out of the lifeboat first, what the term "fisting" means or what is more important...the fairy shrimp or draining standing water in order to lessen the mosquito population.
Thank you. Some here think their kids can get into MIT by just saying, "I know Johnnie can do it because I taught him."
Anyway, I am on my way out the door. Congrats to your MIT student, BTW. :-)