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How to check a homeschool transcript before you send it

A college reads a homeschool transcript closely because there is no school behind it. The questions it will ask are the ones to answer first.

Before a homeschool transcript goes out, check credits against your own target, in all and each year; a final grade on every finished course; the GPA worked out again; what honors or AP marks add; course names a reader can place; the grading key; the graduation date; the school's name; and the signer's printed name. Peabody's free transcript checker runs those twelve rules over your Record Book.

Checked October 31, 2026.

By Peabody editors.

The credits

  • In all, against the number your family, your state or the colleges you are looking at expect. There is no national number; type your own, and the checker never guesses one.
  • In each high school year, 9th to 12th, against a yearly target if you set one: a thin year is easier to explain before a reader asks.
  • A course with a grade but no credits is left out of the totals and the GPA. Give it credits, or take it off.

The grades

  • After the graduation date, every course needs a final grade. Before it, a course with no grade prints as "In progress" and is not in the GPA yet, which is right for a senior applying in the fall.
  • The GPA worked out again: grade points times credits, divided by credits. If a GPA written somewhere else (an application, an older copy) differs, use one figure everywhere.
  • Honors, AP, IB or dual enrollment marks: if the transcript marks them, it should say what they add. Set the extra points, or set none on purpose and say so in your school profile.

The words

  • Course names that say what was taught: "Algebra I" or "American Literature", not "Math 1" or "English". A reader cannot place a subject alone.
  • A grading key: what each letter means, such as A = 90 to 100. The points scale prints on its own; the key goes on the report card page so the profile and the letter can show it.

The page

  • A graduation date, or an expected one.
  • The school's name at the top.
  • The administrator's printed name under the signature line, and a signature and date on the copy you send.

Run the checker

Peabody's transcript checker reads the transcript the Record Book builds and lists each finding as a fix (a reader will ask about it) or a note (worth a look), with a link to where it is fixed. It is deterministic, uses no AI and sends nothing anywhere. Then send the school profile with it.

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