Homeschool and GPA

marbling
Sat, 25 May 2013 07:14:13 +0000

But how can the colleges know that the grades put into my transcripts are real, and not a bluff?





Your test scores will give credibility to your grades. Across the board, grades are not equal anyway. Besides different grading scales used by schools, every teacher and every school grades differently.

Backtrack and create a transcript. It’s not a big deal. (I knew it was coming for three years, and I finally made my D’s transcript the summer before her senior year.) If possible, take some sort of outside class this year, or a community college class. But if you don’t, or if you can’t, don’t worry about that either.

(I can’t tell if you are ending your junior year, or beginning your junior year.)
Be sure to take both the SAT and the ACT, as you may do much better on one, and most schools will only look at your best score. If you are ending your junior year and have not yet done these, do it soon. Get a test prep book, practice, and take the tests. After you get your score, you will have enough time to study any weaker areas, and retest to increase your scores before early admission applications are due.

So you’ll have your transcript and your test scores, and you’ll write a great essay–one that is uniquely you, not one that is written to try and impress.

Your lack of a GPA really isn’t any big deal; it’s an easy fix.