CM graduates in science-related majors/fields?

My oldest has done one year as a physics major, although he has been in Europe for the last year and a half and I don’t know what he will be ready to study when he gets back.  My second son is in the social sciences.

Wanted to add…in case you don’t know, I operate a homeschool lending library of over 17,000 living books.  Many moms come into my library concerned about “ditching” living books for science during the high school years, believing that they are somehow being disloyal to Charlotte Mason by putting their child in Apologia or the like.  To help these moms, I have picked my son’s brain about this quite a bit over the past couple of years.  His response was that, sure, a student could do serious high school science with living books (although, he said, the term living books is relative.  He enjoyed Apologia and said it was living to him.  He said,”I was driven to do it and you couldn’t have kept me out of it.)  However…that student and parent would have to be VERY diligent to seek out books that would cover the necessary material in the chosen field of study.  His other concern was the math, which he said, is very important in context.  His point was well taken that, if a student has been taught with living ideas, that student can even find them in dead books if they want them bad enough.  Give them what they need to do what they love.

BTW, my son doesn’t have much time during school to do much real reading, but as soon as he’s off for a break he reaches for a book.  Usually when he comes home, that’s what he has in his hand.  🙂  It’ll be alright.

Both my graduated sons used Apologia, also through Advanced Physics, although I must caution you there are issues with Adv. Physics if you are not pretty advanced yourself.  An online class could be a help here.   Anyway, we also supplemented with video and living books, but Apologia has the meat.  It is a solid college prep course.  I’m going to step out on a limb here and say that it would seem to me a good idea for possible biology majors to supplement with a simple book on evolution.  OK, before everyone screams.  Just hear me out.  Apologia does a good job explaining objections to evolution.   It does a less than adequate job actually describing evolutionary theory.  The old adage that you might not want to listen ONLY to the critics of someone applies here.  If your kids are really going to be thrown into the midst of a biology major at a college, I really do believe they need a more sophisticated treatment.  They will be better prepared for what they will encounter.  My two cents.