We’d love to meet you in person!

By |2019-03-11T11:09:06-04:00March 11th, 2019|Advice, Announcements, Creating Professional Transcripts for Students, High school transcripts, Preparing for college, Tips for high school, Transcripts 101|

The Transcript Maker team will be hitting the road in the coming weeks and months to attend a couple of homeschool conventions. If you live in the Southeast, come on out—we’d love to meet you in person! South Carolina Great Homeschool Convention from March 21-23 in Greenville North Carolinians for Home Education “Thrive” Convention from [...]

7 fast facts: Should homeschool students bother applying to an Ivy League school?

By |2019-03-04T09:59:29-05:00March 4th, 2019|Advice, Creating Professional Transcripts for Students, High school transcripts, Preparing for college, Tips for high school|

Ah yes, the prestigious Ivy League—Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, and Yale. Considered to be among the crème de la crème of American universities, these eight private schools rank high on the list of many high school students—including homeschoolers—when it comes to applying to colleges. And what’s not to like? Known for their [...]

6 reasons you shouldn’t make a homeschool transcript on your own

By |2019-02-18T09:17:46-05:00February 18th, 2019|Creating Professional Transcripts for Students, High school transcripts, Preparing for college, Tips for high school, Transcripts 101|

Do I really need a service to create a homeschool transcript? That’s a question we’ve heard time and time again, particularly from homeschool families just entering the busy high school years. And you know what? It’s a great thing to ask. The quick answer might surprise you: No, you don’t need a service to build [...]

The 7 biggest challenges of homeschooling through high school

By |2019-02-04T15:41:38-05:00February 4th, 2019|Advice, Creating Professional Transcripts for Students, High school transcripts, Preparing for college, Standardized tests, Tips for high school, Transcripts 101|

Remember the days when teaching your child took an hour or so a day? The fun of ABCs and 123s, storybooks, and nap time? Most homeschool parents feel pretty confident about their ability to teach their child in the early elementary school years. Then you blink and have a ninth grader on your hands. Your [...]

Your 6 favorite blog posts from 2018

By |2018-12-20T08:42:12-05:00December 20th, 2018|General Interest, Advice, Creating Professional Transcripts for Students, High school transcripts, Transcripts 101|

To help celebrate this holiday season, we’d like to share six of our most popular blog posts from 2018. We hope you find something useful or inspiring here! Should I use a 4.00 or 4.33 GPA on my transcript? The ultimate guide to designing a high school transcript Five subtle changes you didn’t realize your [...]

How Transcript Maker helped my son win an ROTC scholarship

By |2019-01-19T15:10:45-05:00December 4th, 2018|Advice, Creating Professional Transcripts for Students, High school transcripts, Preparing for college, Tips for high school|

Angie Spitzer is a homeschool mom of three boys. She discovered Transcript Maker several years ago after her son began competing for a Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship. We caught up with Angie to get her story! How’d you hear about Transcript Maker? My oldest son was in 8th grade and I was starting [...]

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