Im home schooled.What can i do to ensure i'll get into a good university?

Well, why don't you email the admissions offices at those schools and ask? And then, while you're at it, contact the colleges in your area and see if you could just take classes as a non-matriculated student - not dual enrollment and not working towards a degree. Keep in mind that you will probably have to pay for such courses yourself and will not receive any financial aid for them. Other things you should be doing: - Keeping detailed transcripts of your work, including the class name, a brief description of what the class involved, when you did it, and your final grade. If you are able to enroll in college classes, you can include them on this transcript, but keep in mind that you will have to get an official transcript from the college as well. - Get involved in some extracurricular activities if you aren't already. These are NOT limited to sports. You can also do things related to the arts or volunteer work. Make sure you don't spread yourself too thin. It's better to be heavily involved in a few activities than to be barely involved in several. - Find out if the schools that interested you require the SAT or ACT and prepare accordingly. Begin studying for the exam(s) as soon as possible.

Your standardized test scores are VERY important. Take as many tests and varieties as possible - ACT, SAT, SAT Subject Tests, CLEP tests, AP tests, etc - and score as well as possible on all of them. This demonstrates not only your intelligence but also the fact that you actually LEARNED what your transcript claims you learned. A well-prepared transcript, evidence of commitment to extracurricular activities, and solid recommendation letters are also important. But ultimately, many colleges consider your admission essay to be the most important part of your application. Once your fabulous test scores are under your belt, work hard at crafting the most well-written, *unique* essays possible. Unfortunately, homeschoolers are often held to a higher standard in college admissions. You might have to outperform your public-schooled peers just to be considered. But don't worry - you're a homeschooler. Anything is possible :)

Try reading the book "And What About College? How homeschooling leads to admissions to the best colleges and universities" by Cafi Cohen. She gives a lot of great advice about being accepted into a top school, regardless of the method of homeschooling used. Most Ivy League schools probably won't accept credits from community colleges (which is where dual enrollment courses are usually done), though the credits will still help prove to the Ivy League that you are capable of doing college-level work--so the classes aren't necessarily a waste, even if you don't get credit. They will want documentation of what you do. Transcript and course descriptions. They'll want at least two years of one foreign language. They'll want to see 4 years of math, science, social studies and English. And participation in some sort of extra-curricular activity--whether a sport, club,music, volunteering somewhere, participating in a cause, or whatever. Being very involved in something is better than being slightly involved in lots of things. They'll want to see passionate interest in something, and an interest in learning for learning's sake (rather than just to get decent grades).

Keep your school work at a high standard. Ask the registrar's office what extra hoops you'll need to jump through.