<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm homeschooled; how does my mum (my primary instructor for my life) fill out this part:</p>
<p>"Attach applicants official transcript, a school profile, and transcript
legend. (Please check transcript copies for readability.) Use page 2 to complete your evaluation for this student"</p>
<p>Also, what about things like GPA - should she try and figure out what my GPA would have been?</p>
<p>Thanks :).</p>
<p>We are not unschoolers and did not submit a portfolio in place of transcript, so I can only advise based on what we did. Your mom will create a master high school transcript summarizing your high school course work, the grades you received, and the credit assigned. The more traditional transcript will separate courses by school year although homeschoolers have certainly been successful with transcripts divided by course type. Ours had the label OFFICIAL HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT and were signed by me, the overseer of the schooling. If you do a google search for homeschool transcripts, you should be able to find some samples that fit your type of homeschooling. In addition, if you have taken courses at other institutions--virtual, university, etc., you should request that they also send an official transcript to the colleges you are applying to.</p>
<p>A companion document that we knew we needed for some colleges was a course description list. On this (12-14 pages?) we entered every course separated by school year, the texts or other resources used, teachers name and institution if relevant, final grade (plus supporting standardized test result if available, and a course description with the scope of the course. I did this in a Word document. It was a pain in the neck, but I knew my son would need it.</p>
<p>We created a school profile for our homeschool situation. It described briefly our philosophy of homeschooling, partners in education such as community college and online institutions, our grading scale, our graduation requirements (and how our kids had met or exceeded them), standardized testing results (AP, SAT, etc.), academic honors, and how our other homeschooled child was faring in college. Again, you can find samples on the net. Google school profile. I think that the College Board folks may have a sample under their advisor section. To the best of my knowledge, all public and private schools provide a school profile, so we thought it best to do our own.</p>
<p>Good luck and it's good that you are starting early. We provided lots of documentation this year for our son, but so far I've heard only positive things from the college admissions about the paperwork. If you are aiming for selective schools which are bombarded with applications from an abundant pool of highly qualified students, it is definitely in your best interest to present your case with ample evidence of the quality of your own education.</p>
<p>What level are people usually at when they start high school? My mum taught me some stuff when I was younger than the average high-school student - we live in the UK, and she didn't usually teach me following any specific curriculum. Also, I've been working independently for the last couple of years - who should document that?</p>
<p>You and your mother need to work together on it and create a comprehensive transcript of the coursework you completed. Or at least that's how I would do it.</p>
<p>First just create a listing, like a traditional transcript. It can be organized by subject -- in which case you don't need to concern yourself with when you "started" high school, as long as the work was at a high school level. Or you can break it down by year. You need to figure out what will work best for your situation.</p>
<p>Then you should put together something that describes what was covered in those courses, what books or other materials or activities were involved. In our case (taking a bit different approach from Plantmom) we did not submit descriptions or booklists for classes taken locally at the college, community college, or high school. We only submitted descriptions for the non-traditional, home/independent study, and tutorials. We did, of course, have official transcripts also sent from those institutions though.</p>
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In our case (taking a bit different approach from Plantmom) we did not submit descriptions or booklists for classes taken locally at the college, community college, or high school. We only submitted descriptions for the non-traditional, home/independent study, and tutorials. We did, of course, have official transcripts also sent from those institutions though.
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<p>My parents and I did exactly this, and it worked well. The full list of what we sent was:</p>
<ol>
<li>Homeschool transcript (home-made)</li>
<li>Community college transcript </li>
<li>Homeschool course descriptions</li>
<li>Homeschool Philosophy/Transcript overview sheet</li>
<li>"Counselor Recommendation" from parent</li>
<li>Two teacher recommendations from Community College instructors </li>
</ol>
<p>it seems like a lot but I think it covered everything they needed and hasn't kept me out of any schools (yet lol)</p>
<p>How much and what type of detail did you provide in your homeschool course descriptions?</p>
<p>Pretty simple descriptions. Here is an example of one of my spanish "classes:"</p>
<p>Conversational Spanish and Grammar
Basic grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary of the Spanish language. Practice of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Primary texts: The Learnables and Basic Structures.</p>
<p>Thanks ^^. Should I try and estimate the grades I would've gotten if I'd been at school, as well?</p>
<p>My parents gave me an A in everything :P</p>
<p>Okay... I think I know what to do now. I'll show my mum this thread when it's time to write my transcript.</p>
<p>Thanks to all of you for the help :)</p>
<p>Thanks, lolcats! Congratulations to you and everyone on this board for your college acceptances! You have some great choices.</p>
<p>lolcats4's parents gave out all "A"s. I gave my first two college applicants no grades at all. Worked equally well in college admissions. I don't think parental grades matter at all.</p>
<p>My mom didn't give me grades either, and it was no problem. I even got scholarships that ordinarily required a minimum GPA!</p>
<p>yeah, I don't think they matter at all.</p>
<p>I had a 3.87 college gpa as well, which is probably what they considered instead</p>