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Homeschool -> college

Okay soo I've been homeschooling for a decade now, BUT next week (most likely, i'll try update) I'm gonna be heading to college to do a level1 course (beauty therapy or business) but like idk what to expect at allll cos I've never been to secondary school too so yeahh what's it like guysss

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by Vaxilla
Okay soo I've been homeschooling for a decade now, BUT next week (most likely, i'll try update) I'm gonna be heading to college to do a level1 course (beauty therapy or business) but like idk what to expect at allll cos I've never been to secondary school too so yeahh what's it like guysss


I went from homeschooling to college 2 yrs ago to do alevels, depends on whether you’re doing college online or not (I didn’t) I had a great experience! in terms of what to expect you’ll likely have a timetable already or soon and potentially some breaks/frees so I would suggest trying to make friends with people in your lessons to spend those frees with, maybe try create a group chat with all the people on your course so that you can all get to know eachother and also help eachother with the workload and deadlines, all the students I was around were really nice and I’ve heard from some friends that college is a way better experience then highschool

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by Ccjc
I went from homeschooling to college 2 yrs ago to do alevels, depends on whether you’re doing college online or not (I didn’t) I had a great experience! in terms of what to expect you’ll likely have a timetable already or soon and potentially some breaks/frees so I would suggest trying to make friends with people in your lessons to spend those frees with, maybe try create a group chat with all the people on your course so that you can all get to know eachother and also help eachother with the workload and deadlines, all the students I was around were really nice and I’ve heard from some friends that college is a way better experience then highschool


Thank you @ccjc :smile:
It can be a big change going from being home educated to starting college. My daughter was home educated for almost 5 years before she started sixth form college. She really enjoyed it though and made many friends (although she hated the commute), which she was really pleased about as she had been bullied badly in school.
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