Hello, I’m an expat from SE Asia.
For the freshman, sophomore and junior years of my high school, I attended a physical high school but for my senior year, I’m being homeschooled. How should I go ahead with the common app. Should my parent herself report gpa from previous years?
I may not be correct, but I think the counselor of the physical school you attended has to report your transcript from that school. Your mother (or whoever runs your homeschool) can report your progress as a home schooled child.
Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will comment.
Your high school has to send your official transcript. Whoever’s in charge of your homeschooling will send your senior year transcript, school profile, and guidance counselor letter. Make sure to read college websites to make sure you submit everything they require.
My kids transcript from their high school was addended to their homeschool transcript, which included the grades for all four years, and also denoted which courses were taken where. Your parent is the counselor this year and there is only one counselor allowed on the CA.
@milgymfam , so you mean I should get my parent attach 3 years of HS transcripts and 1 year of homeschool transcript and submit it to the college herself? But @austinmshauri says that the high school has to send those and parent has to send only the homeschool transcript? But I see only 1 counselor can be allowed in common app?! What is the correct way to do this? My current senior year transcript is in progress as I didn’t receive mid year reports and final year reports yet.
All I have is my own experience and the advice we have been given over the years. Overwhelmingly that advice is that your school is whatever one you graduate from- if you homeschool for three years and then transition to public school, the public school will submit your transcript and serve as your counselor/school of record. The same is said in reverse. My daughter who is already in college had transcripts from two high schools and three colleges that were all a part of her official homeschool record. We did forward official college transcripts even though they were also addended to her homeschool transcript, but did not do so for her high school ones. No schools asked for that either. Same process is now repeating with my senior in the same manner.
I just submitted my DD’s transcript, and I did what @milgymfam did.
I was told by my daughter’s former school that if she had transferred to another public high school, the new school would take all of her classes and grades from her first high school and add them to her new school’s transcript, with an indication of where she had taken her classes. So that’s what they advised me to do. I made one transcript that included all classes. I uploaded (as attachments) her unofficial transcripts from her traditional high school, college dual credit, and online class teacher reports. We ordered official copies of the college transcript to be sent directly to the colleges, and I included a note in the profile that if a school wanted an official copy of her traditional high school to contact me and I’d request it.
The transcript I submitted shows grades through end of 11th grade and also includes the classes in progress this year, without grades. I found a template online for creating a transcript but in the end I basically copied the format that her traditional school had used. I’ll add grades after first semester is over and that will be her Midyear report.