A quick reminder that the Transcript Maker team will have a booth at the upcoming North Carolinians for Home Education (NCHE) “Thrive” convention in Winston-Salem, NC, from May 30th to June 1st. If you’ll be at the convention, please stop on by our booth in the Exhibit Hall! We would love to meet you [...]
You’ve probably done a lot of thinking about how best to work with your student to put together a high school transcript. Maybe you’ve even considered using an app like Transcript Maker to help out. We know that’s a big decision. And it’s always helpful to take a new resource for a test drive [...]
The cost of college is a scary thing. It can be challenging knowing how to put together a budget to foot the cost. Financial aid can be a huge help with this. And when you’re applying for financial aid, your most critical step in the process is filing the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student [...]
All of us are familiar with the age-old feeling of “senioritis”—the desire to just be done with school, already! Whether it comes your senior year of high school or college makes no difference. It can still be a debilitating experience. Trouble is, senioritis can lead some homeschool seniors to make a handful of common blunders [...]
Need evidence that Americans take college admissions way too seriously? Look no further than all the current headlines about "Operation Varsity Blues." Earlier in March, prosecutors charged dozens of parents (including celebrities like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin) of bribing admissions officers at high-profile universities into fraudulently accepting their kids into the schools. These included [...]
We’ve all faced that dreaded situation: You have to complete a project, but you’re stuck looking at the proverbial blank sheet of paper, not sure where to start. It’s easy to slip into that pattern when it comes time to create a homeschool transcript, too. Sometimes, the intimidating part is knowing where to even begin. [...]