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Friday, 19 June 2020

What to Include on a Homeschool Transcript for College Applications

It's fall of senior year and you and your child are sitting down to submit college applications. Of course, your job will be much easier if the homesc...

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Monday, 06 April 2020

Come Spring Into Transcripts With Me!

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Let me guess.... You KNOW that you should get your homeschool transcript done now, but you really don't want to do it. You know you should, but it doe...

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Friday, 03 April 2020

Sending Homeschool Transcripts for Senior Year Applications

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Is your child's transcript up to date? Even if their transcript looks great on paper, it can be confusing to figure out how to submit a homeschool transcript when you are filling out college applications during the fall of senior year. Let me give you a few quick tips to make your college admission process easier. Homeschool transcripts aren't hard to make. They do, however, take time to make. And, it is a good idea to...

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Wednesday, 04 March 2020

[Free Class] How to Avoid the 5 Biggest Mistakes Parents Make Homeschooling High School

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Homeschooling high school is a challenge. College prep is an additional challenge on top of that. Many parents struggle because they don't know HOW to...

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Friday, 28 February 2020

Super Senior or Delayed Graduation: The 5 Year Plan

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When deciding whether or not you'll have your student do a 5th year of high school, or a Super Senior year, you'll need to weigh the desires and maturity of your student against their age and abilities. It's normal for a child to graduate high school between the ages of 17 and 20. For many parents, that means that you can provide a 5th year of high school and still graduate your child on time. Although graduating...

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Monday, 27 January 2020

Early High School Credits Earned in Middle School

Middle School Grades & Credits

If you are sure your child is doing high school level work in an academic subject area like math, science, or foreign language in middle school, put that on your transcript and earn early high school credits! Why? Because when it's honest and true it goes on the transcript. And because schools do it too! My record keeping earned our family $187,000 in scholarships. Click this link if you could use that sort of college cash: The HomeScholar...

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Why I Do Not Recommend Weighting Grades

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I don't recommend weighting grades. It makes it harder for colleges, and colleges tend to like you more if you make their job easier. Here is the problem, every high school has a different policy on weighting grades. For an "Honors" or AP class, some high schools will add 1.0 to the grade - so the highest grade possible is a 5.0 instead of a 4.0. Some high schools will increase the grade by 0.5, so honors...

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Making Homeschool Economics Fast and Easy

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Economics is usually a 1/2 credit, semester-long class taught during senior year in high school. Sometimes homeschoolers want to provide a full 1 credit class on economics, or want to prepare for the AP exams in economics. There are a lot of different ways to cover economics as a homeschooler. Here are some options you might consider. This post contains affiliate links . If you click and buy I may make a few pennies, but not enough for a latte....

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Wednesday, 18 September 2019

Teaching Occupational Education in 5 Easy Steps

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"Occupational Education" is the easiest class you will ever teach! It is a homeschool requirement in some states (i.e. Washington State). I'm convinced it's the easiest class to cover in your homeschool. Here are five easy steps: 1. Wait until your child becomes motivated by money 2. Your child will seek (or be forced to seek) a job 3. Count hours on the job 4. When your child accumulates 150 hours, call it a credit 5. Retroactively write a course description All...

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Monday, 25 June 2018

Super Senior Five Year High School

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Can you take the Five Year Plan for high school? It's called by many names: 5th Year Senior, Fifth Year Program, Super-Senior. What it means is that y...