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homeschooling and college credits
My son is wanting to join. He met with a recruiter. He took a practice ASVAB but wants to score higher. He was homeschooled the last two years of school and is now in his second year of college. He has about 24 credits. I have a few questions. Will they look more at his college than his homeschooling? He does have a diploma! I know some are still a bit ignorant of homeschooling.
He is my only child. I am proud of him, but nervous too:)
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Permalink Reply by lemonelephant on
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If he has college credits, that's what will count once he qualifies to enlist.
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Permalink Reply by Peanut's mom on
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My son was homeschooled and our recruiter needed addional information. Most importantly, his diploma! As long as he can get through all of the paperwork, medical and background checks... He should be good for go! Oh... I do believe he needed to score a minimum of 40 (don't quote me) on the ASVAB too! Good luck! I feel your angst as mine is an only child as well! Only 38 days till I see him at PIR!
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An ASVAB AFQT score of 50 or higher is required for home school diploma graduates (education code “H”) to attain Tier I status. (http://www.cnrc.navy.mil/publications/Directives/1130_8J%20VOL%20II...)
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Thank you lemonelephant! We chose not to hassle with the pressure and my son went back to school (on the advise of his recruiter) to receive his tier I diploma (he had a tier II). It was just a couple classes in our home state. His other options were score over 50 or a full semester of 24 credits of college courses with a minimum GPA (can't remember). Given the choices, time parameters and advise he went for his tier I. Sounds like your son should qualify if he has been attending college courses and is currently enrolled.
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Permalink Reply by Jakesmom917 on
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thanks all.He scored like a 53 on a pracrice ASVAB but will take a month and study more. He will finish this semester and it should give him way over 24 credits. He struggled his first half of year of college but has disciplined himself a great deal. He does have his HS diploma to give to the recruiter and his homeschool teachers licsence and phone number. They are still pretty close. He was just worried because some are a bit ignorant about homeschoolers still. He was told by his GF, that is going in in a few weeks that the fact he has college under his belt matters a bit more.
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Permalink Reply by AaronsMom (Ship 04, Div 811) on
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My son was homeschooled from first grade. Then he went to the community college for dual credit during his junior and senior years of high school. I was able to get him to go ahead and complete his associates degree before enlisting. He was told he would go in as E3 with his associates degree. Because he was homeschooled, he had to get another three credits beyond his associates degree in order to go in as E3. I still don't know why, except that they didn't seem to have a lot of experience with homeschoolers. He scored an 85 on the ASVAB. Home School Legal Defense even got involved on our behalf, but they finally advised him to just take one more class. Good luck to you!
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Even though he had a Associate's degree, if it was not 48 semester hours, then he would need additional hours to go in as an E-3. That is probably why he needed the 3 extra hours and it really had nothing to do with his homeschooled status at that point. (See http://www.navycs.com/navy-advanced-paygrade.html.)
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He had 62 semester hours. Now he has 65. I have no idea why they couldn't just take the degree.
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That is strange that he had to have that many hours. They don't take the degree, it's the hours.
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