There's a running joke about diplomas in homeschooling circles. Basically, anyone can issue a diploma. It won't do you a bit of good in college, unless it's issued by some accrediting agency that the college accepts. Don't worry, though. W/o it, you can take alternative routes. You just have to work w/ the admissions people. Sometimes they'll accept an entrance exam or similar type formal testing. It just depends on the school, the courses you want to take and such like. You have to impress them personally w/ your ability and determination, unless they're already predisposed to favor homeschoolers. (and some are, believe it or not)
Anyway, one diploma isn't just as good as another. But the real joke is that, aside from higher education, nobody cares. They never check! I got talked into taking my GED test when I was around 20 years old. I was told, and believed, that you just can't get anywhere in this life w/o the proper certification. But no one has ever asked to see it, ever. I know a lot of people like that. One guy is pulling down well over $75k/yr as an engineer for IBM w/o ever having bothered to certify his highschool education, let along any engineering degrees or anything. That's not to say that it's easy. Far from it. This guy just happens to be like some kind of savant when it comes to computing and telophony and he's busted his ass relentlessly for the past 30 years to get where he is.
Step 1. We came to understand that the government is powerless over people's private use of drugs and that the War on Drugs was making the government's life unmanageable.
--Scott Tillinghast
