Georgia's home-study notice is short. The RHSC is not.

A Georgia family's annual declaration of intent to home study is a short notice, not a subject-by-subject plan, and it leaves open the exact question a student aiming at a University System of Georgia campus eventually has to answer: what courses does the system itself expect to see. Application deadlines arrive before that question gets answered on its own. The system publishes its own course pattern for exactly this, the Required High School Curriculum, known as the RHSC, and it applies to a homeschooled applicant the same way it applies to anyone else.

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Checked against shared/gradRules/college-ready-2026.js, verified against the University System of Georgia's RHSC unit pattern and NCAA Eligibility Center fact sheets. Requirements on this page last reviewed November 2, 2026. The University System of Georgia's own RHSC pattern and the NCAA's own requirements is always the source of truth.

The RHSC, in the system's own units

The RHSC sets seventeen units across five subjects: four units of English, four units of math, four units of science, three units of social science, and two units of the same foreign language, where American Sign Language or a computer-science course can satisfy the language unit. It is the flagship-system pattern inside the broader college-preparatory range: wider than the University of California's fifteen-course a-g list, narrower than nothing, since no public system below either asks for less.

Because the RHSC counts whole units rather than naming a single required course title, a family keeping a running record of what a student studied, in which subject, for how long, has the raw material the pattern asks for already, rather than a reconstruction job left for senior year.

If an athletic path is also in view

A student also aiming at NCAA eligibility reads against a second, separate pattern: the NCAA Eligibility Center's Division I requirement of sixteen core courses with a grade-point floor of 2.3 across them, and its ten-of-sixteen timing rule, ten core courses (seven in English, math, or science) finished before the seventh semester begins. Division II sets the floor at 2.2 with no such timing rule. The NCAA's own homeschool documentation track asks for a transcript with a ninth-grade start date, a Core-Course Worksheet for each parent-taught core course, and an administrator statement attesting to state-law compliance. Neither number predicts one student; both are the NCAA's own published floor, read against whatever the record already shows.

What this is not

It is not Georgia's home-study law. The annual declaration of intent is a separate, shorter filing; the RHSC is the university system's own admission standard, not a state home-study requirement.
It does not predict admission. Meeting the RHSC is one input a campus weighs on its own terms, never a guarantee.
It does not set a testing requirement.College testing policies have moved more than once in 2026 alone; check each campus's current policy directly rather than read one in here.

Why the record does the work

The record is free for the learner, forever: capturing each course as it happens, the subject, the materials, the hours, the adult who taught or oversaw it. Reading that record against the RHSC and the NCAA floor, unit by unit, is built into the record's own transcript view, free to preview. A verified Witness Transcript™ a university can check against the record it describes is Family Pro, $119 a year (see pricing).

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Frequently asked questions

Does Georgia's home-study law require the RHSC courses?

No. Georgia's annual declaration of intent to home study is a short notice, not a subject-by-subject plan. The RHSC is the University System of Georgia's own admission standard for its freshman applicants, not a state home-study requirement.

What are the five RHSC subject units?

Four units of English, four units of math, four units of science, three units of social science, and two units of the same foreign language, seventeen units in all, where American Sign Language or a computer-science course can satisfy the language unit.

How does the RHSC compare to the University of California's a-g pattern?

The RHSC asks for seventeen units across five subjects; UC's a-g asks for fifteen courses across seven, with an arts unit and a college-prep elective the RHSC does not separately name. Both sit inside the same broader college-preparatory range, with UC's a-g the narrower list and the RHSC the wider one.

Does meeting the RHSC guarantee admission?

No answer here can say that. A campus weighs the RHSC on its own terms, as one input among others, never a promise about one applicant.

What does this cost?

The record is free for the learner, forever: the course log, the portfolio, reading it against the RHSC and the NCAA floor. A verified Witness Transcript™ a university can check is Family Pro, $119 a year, and every document previews filled in, free, first.

The record behind the pattern

A unit count is only as good as what is behind it: what your student actually read, made, or completed in that subject, with the adult who saw it named on the item. A co-op teacher or a tutor signs from a link in one tap, and a university, a scholarship reader, or anyone else you share the page with can check any item themselves, no account needed on their end. You hold the record, the RHSC, the NCAA floor, and every application after this one.

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