Three documents, every application, assembled by hand. Or one packet.
It is October of senior year, the early deadlines land around November 1, and the Common App has quietly made you a school official: the homeschooling parent acts as the student's counselor, and the School Report asks that counselor for a transcript, course descriptions, and a school profile. Most families build all three from scratch, in a word processor, the same month everything else is due.
Checked against the live packet page and the transcript builder, as shipped. Requirements on this page last reviewed October 4, 2026. The product as it runs today; the School Report pain restates the packet page's own reviewed copy is always the source of truth.
What the packet holds
One print-ready document, rendered from the record you already keep: the issued transcript in a compact form, a course-description section built from each course's own name and notes, and a home-school profile frame where your grading scale and a few sentences about your approach print exactly as you type them. The words stay yours; the assembly is the part that stops costing you an evening.
The footer carries the transcript's verify link, so any reader can confirm the live record, free, with no account. That link is the difference between a document a reader takes on faith and one they can check.
If the transcript is not issued yet
Start at the transcript builder: the courses go in once, the transcript issues with its verify link, and the packet assembles itself from the same data. Entering a high-school record usually takes an evening. The quarterly paperwork, the activities list, and this packet all render from that one entry of the facts.
Questions families ask
What does the Common App ask a homeschool family for?
On the Common App, the homeschooling parent typically acts as the student’s counselor, and the School Report asks that counselor to upload a transcript, course descriptions, and a school profile. Three separate documents, assembled by hand, every application cycle, usually in October.
What is a home-school profile?
The one-page document a school would send about itself: how your home school grades, what a credit means, and a few sentences about your approach. For a homeschool, the parent writes it. The packet page gives it a clean frame; the words stay yours.
Is the packet really free?
Yes. The transcript, the course descriptions, and the profile frame render from the record you already keep, and the record is free for the learner, forever. The packet is a rendering of your own record, so it is free too, and it prints as one document.
How do colleges know it was not edited after the fact?
The packet’s footer carries the transcript’s verify link. Anyone you hand the packet to can open that link, free, with no account, and see the same record live.
We have not issued a transcript yet. Where do we start?
Start at the transcript builder: enter the courses once, issue the transcript, and the packet assembles itself from the same data. Entering a year of courses usually takes an evening, not a week.
Whose record it is
The record is yours: free for the learner, forever, and you take it with you. The packet is one rendering of it; the state paperwork, the activities list, and the verifiable transcript are others. Enter the facts once, and every door that asks for them in its own shape gets them from the same place.