What to do Senior Year for College-Bound Homeschoolers

This week on Homeschool Highschool Podcast Senior What to do Senior Year for College-Bound Homeschoolers- Special Replay

What to do Senior Year for College-Bound Homeschoolers- Special Replay

You and your homeschool teens have been working diligently all through high school. They needed a college-attractive transcript. Not only that, they needed the college-prep study skills and safety skills that college students will use. However, they also needed to be teenagers and have some kind of fun and balanced life. You all have made it this far….to SENIOR YEAR!!

Congratulations!

Senior year is different from the earlier years of homeschooling high school. We are always getting LOTS of questions about what to expect from senior year for college bound homeschool high schoolers. What are the rhythms of senior year?

What needs to happen and when during senior year?

Of course, as we always say: There’s not ONE right way to homeschool high school, so you and your teens need to decide what is best. However, it is nice to have some guidelines that can help you set your own goals. These are the senior year goals we set for our college-bound teens.

June, July, August goals:

PRAY! Pray together, pray on your own! As Kym always says, “Pray first, last and always!”

July goals:

Plan the academics for the year, include your teen in the process. It is SO important to have your teens’ buy-in for their final year of high school!
Order your curriculum if possible.

August goals:

Have your senior write their college application essays.
- Most of the online applications have the essay topics posted by August (and sometimes they are the same essay topics as the previous year).
Check out this Homeschool Highschool Podcast episode on how to apply to college.
ALSO: Please, please, please: Discuss with your seniors how to politely ask for their college recommendation letter!
- That letter may not be due yet, but when seniors have written that college application essay, they can imagine how much time it will take the person they have chosen to write that recommendation letter.

September goals:

Work with your senior to narrow the college choices down to three to five good-fit schools.
Make sure your teen has toured those schools.
If the school has rolling admissions, your teen can start the application process.
- Otherwise, find out what the early application timeframe is. Discuss with your teen if they want early or regular admissions.

October goals:

If early admissions is open for your teens choice schools, you can probably apply now.
Have your seniors take their time and do a good job.
Get the reference requests done, if they have not already done so.

November goals:

See if your seniors can wrap up the college applications and recommendation letters.

Holiday goals:

Have a nice holiday season. Keep those academics on target.

January goals:

Keep an eye on status on the online essays….IF you are not obsessing about it. Remember, it is your teen who is headed to college, not you!
You really can trust God to open and close the right doors.
Please do not share everything cool that your teen with all your social media.
Ask you teens first! Remind your teen to be compassionate with their friends who are in different places in the process.

February goals:

Send mid-year grades to colleges.
Start working on graduation. (Some homeschool graduates do not want an official graduation, that is okay, too!)
Are senior pictures done?
Pick graduation date.
- Start organizing your ideas for graduation party and ceremony.

March goals:

Financial aid packages have arrived.
- Time for your teen to make that college decision.

April goals:

Plan the schedules to finish off academics and activities to finish in time.
- Schedule backwards on any big projects that need to get done.

May goals:

Wrap things up. All the things!

June goals:

Graduation!!! Congratulations!!

After graduation, many people celebrate with a graduation party!

Join Sabrina, Vicki and Kym for an encouraging, empowering talk about senior year for college bound homeschool high schoolers. In the meantime, enjoy these posts and resources:

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