Since I’m sure yours is a web resource that’s going to be stumbled upon by many homeschoolers world-wide, I’d like to respectfully point out that the information you’re providing is relevant to U.S. admissions, but not necessarily for Canadian university admissions. (We have a shortage of info up here, so a lot of what people do find tends to be American.)

I’ve volunteered for the last 6 years with our provincial home schooling organization (www.ontariohomeschool.org) primarily in the role of “private guidance counselor” and specifically researching and compiling Ontario home school university admissions policies (which have only come into existence in the last 7 years or so). I speak annually at home schooling conferences around the province, and usually the first thing I have to say is, “Forget what you’ve read or seen on t.v. because most of it is American.” :)

So, I hope you don’t mind if I point out to any of your Canadian (specifically Ontario) readers that also visiting sites such as http://homeschooling.rainsberger.ca will provide local information for applying to Ontario schools.

Absolutely – we all know that homeschooling topics generally aren’t “one size fits all” and a specific facet like the transcript is no exception.

The assumption is that if your curriculum does have some local or state oversight, you should use that as certification/testimony in the process. If not, no bother – you just have a little bit more work cut out for you in preparing the transcript.

Thanks for the suggestion about evaluating online forms and packages. Part of the reason I started this series was because I found some of them inadequate and wanted to elucidate the concepts behind the approach first. Stay tuned!