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Good luck. Pretty much anyone who "requires" a high school transcript as a prerequisite for anything will only accept them from an accredited school, or maybe from at least a recognized homeschool program. If you're entirely homeschooling on your own, a transcript that looks like you created it in Microsoft Word is not going to go very far.
Good luck. Pretty much anyone who "requires" a high school transcript as a prerequisite for anything will only accept them from an accredited school, or maybe from at least a recognized homeschool program. If you're entirely homeschooling on your own, a transcript that looks like you created it in Microsoft Word is not going to go very far.
I had no problem getting into college after homeschooling using a Microsoft Word based transcript. I'm old enough that back then standardized testing mattered more, so a good score on the SAT or ACT meant that your transcripts were less critical as a signal for future success. OTOH, some places recognize homeschooling provides a unique perspective on education. For example, I was invited to interview at Yale's biolog…
(Bonus points if you can make it past freshman year, which when I was tutoring was always a huge concern for the newly free homeschool kids, but tbh freshman tuition and room&board is enough)
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I had no problem getting into college after homeschooling using a Microsoft Word based transcript. I'm old enough that back then standardized testing mattered more, so a good score on the SAT or ACT meant that your transcripts were less critical as a signal for future success. OTOH, some places recognize homeschooling provides a unique perspective on education. For example, I was invited to interview at Yale's biolog…
Low end institutions just want enrollment. They literally do not care about transcripts. As we approach 2008+18 that will intensify. They’re getting desperate and the long dreaded End Times haven’t even arrived… (Bonus points if you can make it past freshman year, which when I was tutoring was always a huge concern for the newly free homeschool kids, but tbh freshman tuition and room&board is enough)
Good luck. Pretty much anyone who "requires" a high school transcript as a prerequisite for anything will only accept them from an accredited school, or maybe from at least a recognized homeschool program. If you're entirely homeschooling on your own, a transcript that looks like you created it in Microsoft Word is not going to go very far.
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Low end institutions just want enrollment. They literally do not care about transcripts. As we approach 2008+18 that will intensify. They’re getting desperate and the long dreaded End Times haven’t even arrived… (Bonus points if you can make it past freshman year, which when I was tutoring was always a huge concern for the newly free homeschool kids, but tbh freshman tuition and room&board is enough)
What’s special about 2008 plus 18 years? 2026?
I assume ke88y had their oldest child born in 2008.
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Low end institutions just want enrollment. They literally do not care about transcripts. As we approach 2008+18 that will intensify. They’re getting desperate and the long dreaded End Times haven’t even arrived… (Bonus points if you can make it past freshman year, which when I was tutoring was always a huge concern for the newly free homeschool kids, but tbh freshman tuition and room&board is enough)
What’s special about 2008 plus 18 years? 2026?
This is cool! We are thinking about homeschooling and need all the tools we can get. As an aside, I finished high school homeschooled. A state scholarship requires you to be in the top 10% of your class, so the state added me to a cohort of 120 people I had never met, decided I was 7th in that cohort, and gave me an extra $10k in scholarship money. So yea, “top 10%” metrics are dumb.
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Low end institutions just want enrollment. They literally do not care about transcripts. As we approach 2008+18 that will intensify. They’re getting desperate and the long dreaded End Times haven’t even arrived… (Bonus points if you can make it past freshman year, which when I was tutoring was always a huge concern for the newly free homeschool kids, but tbh freshman tuition and room&board is enough)
What’s special about 2008 plus 18 years? 2026?
In the same vein, my spouse and I have developed an app called Logbook. It's a student activity tracker built to simplify homeschooling record keeping and reporting, integrating with Apple iCloud for secure data storage and syncing. It also supports exporting of student reports as PDFs. This simplifies the reporting burden for homeschool educators immensely. If anyone is interested in checking it out, our website is https://logbook-ed.com
I have considered building a transcript generator as part of our tool. We already keep the records and generate reports, but a transcript is pretty different to yearly education audit reports. I'm looking forward to giving this tool a try when the time comes, it may have saved me the trouble of building my own!
Again, thank you for your contribution to the homeschooling community.
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Low end institutions just want enrollment. They literally do not care about transcripts. As we approach 2008+18 that will intensify. They’re getting desperate and the long dreaded End Times haven’t even arrived… (Bonus points if you can make it past freshman year, which when I was tutoring was always a huge concern for the newly free homeschool kids, but tbh freshman tuition and room&board is enough)
What’s special about 2008 plus 18 years? 2026?
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