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Martha, I'll send you a copy of Libby's transcript (without grades) if you like. I used HSLDA's transcript template in Word. It was very easy.
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| Martha, I'll send you a copy of Libby's transcript (without grades) if you like. I used HSLDA's transcript template in Word. It was very easy. |
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MacBeth - please would you send me a copy too - I will pm you my address.
How do you figure out how many credits?
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Done, Marilyn.
I just keep it as simple as possible, giving one credit per full-year course. Kolbe (I think) gives 5 credits per full year. Seems a bit silly to me. No schools to which Libby applied questioned the credit scheme, probably because it varies across the country.
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Kolbe is 10 credits for a full year course - so 40 credits in english means you had 4 years of english.
I would love to see yours Macbeth.
If for no other reason than to see if I'm nuts about thinking it's not that big a deal.
My dh and I have different looking transscripts from highschool even though we graduated a year apart in the same county, so I agree with you - they vary widely. All the college wants to know is did you take the course. Often their college board listing will tell if they want more detailed info from homeschoolers, such as a spine text list for the subjects. So I keep that seperate just in case.
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MarilynW wrote:
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Marilyn,
Our high school gives the child one credit per each course they complete with a passing grade.
That's how I did my oldest homeschool graduate. For each class he completed satisfactory, I gave him credit.
When he graduated our high school required 23 credits for graduation. He totalled 27 credits through our hs. I included the part-time job he had has an Apprenticeship/On-Job Training credit and also included the outside classes he was taking at the vo-tech school.
If you'd like to see Corey's transcript and high school curriculum profile, just PM me your email address. I'll be happy to send.
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Martha wrote:
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Louisiana colleges only care about your ACT score so we definitely have a large margin when it comes to worrying about transcripts and all the other stresses. Of course, worrying about the ACT score with a weak test-taker is stress enough. 
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I also want to add that Libby had official transcripts from both music school and German school. The music school transcript is very official looking, typed, and sealed. The German school transcript was a photocopy of her grades, rather poorly transferred to a list by year, and stamped. Both were logged in and accepted. Neither included any mention of "credits" or "units".
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The credit counting system is just different for different states. Kolbe uses the California system which is 10 credits per unit. Simply a different order of magnitude but same ratio.
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Martha wrote:
| I really would not freak out over transcripts? Starting to feel like I'm not stressed enough about those? I've seen them and they don't look that complicated to me? Pretty basic stuff? But then again I love spreadsheets, so maybe that's why the look of them doesn't bother me? |
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No, you're fine. My ds and I put his together in an evening. It's been even shorter for the subsequent ones.
Possibly a bit tougher if you have had an unconventional high school experience -- portfolios might reflect the child's diverse learning better then.
I usually go with writing out the child's experiences in "transcript-language". The children usually do more than the local high school in order to get a credit (or 10 credits  ), but sometimes it isn't quite conventional type of work. For instance, I log discussions, field work and the like.
I think probably people feel stressed about "measuring up" for college with their homemade educational experience. I did, but transcripts weren't really the source of my stress. It was the general idea of preparing the child well for the transition, while not just doing "school at home" in some of the most formative years of a person's life (ie the teen years).
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Willa wrote:
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Yeah, I figured it was just a California thing, Willa  .
Considering there are 50 states, each with quirks unique to its own school administration, plus private schools, and foreign countries galore, a few nicely packaged transcripts from homeschoolers must be refreshing.
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You know...I go back and forth about being stressed about transcripts, college aps , and testing, and so forth.
But as I was reading through all these wonderful responses, it just hit me.
I applied for college, filled out forms, arranged when I took SATs and PSATs, wrote an essay all on my own when I was in high school . I never felt stressed about it then...I wonder why at times I get stressed about all this now?
I got into a really good college and when I look back my last 2 years of high school were not that strong in academics even though I was "college prep". Hmmm....
We are doing our own transcripts as we go along through Academic Records and also keeping track of our son's resume through them.
For the first year of high school, our son did Seton. I may attach that to our transcript...not sure though.
This year our son did an online latin class and the rest of his courses following our own thing. I have liked this year much better and so did he.
I may have him do just one Seton English course per year.(They really have 2 courses per year.) I like their writing courses because they emphasize the 5 paragraph essay...which is wonderful for the SAT. (But that is another thread:)
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Oh, and what I said above about MY last 2 years of high school not so strong academically ...but looked good on my transcripts. Here are some examples:
-I had 4 years of french...but the last 2 years we did practically nothing.
-My chemistry class was open book.
_My Alg. II class was open book and the teacher was always out surfing somewhere.
_American Government...I don't remember a thing!
-Literature classes...the teacher was excellent and we wrote 5 paragraph essays nonstop. THIS REALLY SAVED ME IN COLLEGE.
So grades from institutional schools can be inflated and I think colleges know this. Don't the colleges throw out freshman year grades to begin with? I thought I read that somewhere.
Hope I'm not off topic too much here. But I think we homeschooling mothers are doing so much more than what my experience was as well as a lot of your own experiences!
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Macbeth,
Do you have a link to the HSLDA transcript? TIA
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Here is the link to their transcript blanks, which come in both word and pdf form. I used the word form, and the result was very professional-looking (I think ).
I chose this out of the many that are available online because it was easy to modify by myself, and very easy to use.
ETA: The one I used was the "Completed Transcript example blank form" (the second word file at the end of that line. I changed the actual grade area to light blue, and printed it on blue linen paper. I resisted the urge to add a fragrance.
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lol Macbeth! too funny. I like the looks of the first word file before the one you chose...
off to play with a new spreadsheet! 
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I like the stream lined view of this one at donna young too.
http://www.donnayoung.org/forms/planners/go08/hischl/wordhs/ trnscrpt1.doc
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hey I have a question about those transcripts...
how do you calculate grade that YOU give? I guess I would presume that if I'm the teacher, they do it until they get an A, know what I mean?
Do you just slap a 4.0 there? NOT saying it's not deserved, because mine would be - just curious what others do...
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