Action4Canada - August 21, 2025


Top Universities Seek Homeschooled Kids


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2 minutes

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148.30876

Word Count

399

Sentence Count

26


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In this episode, I speak with the President of the Home Educator Association of Canada about the importance of a high school diploma to go on to post-secondary education and why you don't need one. I also talk a little bit about graduation and the laws in each province.

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00:00:00.000 I also want to talk a little bit about graduation and the laws in each province.
00:00:08.860 And I will speak for British Columbia.
00:00:10.880 I know you can do it either get a teacher assisted kind of thing.
00:00:15.200 And then you get the official transcript from the government to show you've got a government transcript.
00:00:23.220 And then you can also get the homeschool equivalency certificate, which is I had kids.
00:00:29.100 I did one of each or two of one and one of the other.
00:00:33.600 And but both proved to be fine for anything post-secondary.
00:00:40.940 And so let's talk a little bit about how that works in Canada.
00:00:46.000 Yeah.
00:00:46.360 So, you know, every province may be a little bit different.
00:00:50.860 And Quebec is its own situation.
00:00:54.160 It's quite different because their entire educational system is also different.
00:00:59.740 But in general terms, what we tell our members is you don't need a high school, official high school diploma to go on to post-secondary education.
00:01:11.700 In fact, we're finding now that the top ranked universities in particular are more likely.
00:01:21.980 Well, they actually give the preference to home educated students over those from from other backgrounds.
00:01:27.640 And the reason they do that is they've come to recognize what, you know, the academic studies show, which is that homeschool students are academically more advanced.
00:01:37.920 They have better self-study habits.
00:01:40.460 They have all those character traits that you were just talking about, too, where they show up on time and they do their work and and and they deliver results.
00:01:49.020 And so universities being generally private institutions in this country, even though most of them are publicly funded, you know, they set their own admission standards and they invest a lot of money in admissions.
00:02:01.260 They don't want to see students who come to their institutions, fail, fail out and and not return because because it costs them money to recruit.
00:02:10.340 It costs the money to engage in the admissions process.
00:02:13.200 So they want students they know are going to succeed.
00:02:16.040 So they generally give preference to home educated students.
00:02:19.680 If you're applying as a home educator and there are many ways to do it with post-secondary post-secondary institutions, they're all a bit different.
00:02:27.120 You will find, I believe, great success with applying as a homeschooler.
00:02:34.660 You do not need that high school, formal provincial high school diploma to make it in this world.