If you are a home-schooled student, we welcome your application to Connecticut College. There are a few things you should keep in mind when you are submitting your application.

If you do not have a traditional high school transcript, please submit a detailed accounting of the courses you have pursued along with syllabi or reading lists. If you have taken courses at a high school, college/university or through a distance learning program, please send official transcripts along with your application.

In addition, your letters of recommendation should not come from your parents. Instead many students submit letters of recommendation from instructors of classes they may have taken at a high school, college or university or from people for whom they have volunteered or worked.

You should also try to have an interview, if possible, with an admission officer in-person or online. The home-schooled students who are successful applicants to the College have generally availed themselves of local college, university or distance learning courses through an accredited educational organization, and have participated in extracurricular activities at the local level.