Studies have shown that homeschoolers “achieve similar or better academic achievement on average.” » (Wichers). “The Ohio Department of Education (1995) reported that students were administered a standardized, norm-referenced achievement test. » The results came back revealing that "homeschooled students averaged between the 65th and 80th percentile on norm-referenced and standardized achievement tests, where the national average was the 50th percentile." percentile” (Wichers). Testing aside, getting into college isn't as difficult as some make it out to be. Kate McReynolds found that in Golden's research "In 2001, Stanford University admitted 27 percent of its home-schooled applicants, nearly twice the acceptance rate of traditionally schooled applicants" (Golden, cited in McReynolds 37). This shows that a non-traditional approach to teaching is effective and, in many cases, more effective than other teaching methods.