The journal
Notes on the paperwork, the law, and the records behind them.
AP is a College Board trademark, and permission to put it on a transcript comes from exactly one place. The useful surprise is that a homeschool can go and get that permission, on a page written for homeschool providers. Here is the...
Twelve states require no ongoing filing at all. Ohio dropped its testing requirement in 2023 and half the internet has not noticed. Here is how to read your own state code in about ten minutes, without a lawyer and without a forum.
A counselor letter is a document about a school, written by an administrator, that happens to mention a student. Write that one. The fond letter about your child is the one everybody writes and no reader needs.
Honors is not a regulated word and nobody grants you permission to use it. That is exactly the problem. What a reader does with the word, the four bases that survive a question, how many is too many, and the one line...
Most of what gets attached to the phrase is decoration. Here is the two-page test, and four titles from the usual canon that get recommended with the important part left off.
The 120-hour rule, where it actually comes from, when to ignore it, and how to award a credit for a year of work that had no syllabus and no final exam.
An admissions reader spends six to ten minutes on a whole application. Your transcript gets about ninety seconds of that. Here is what those ninety seconds are spent on, and the one thing that makes someone pick up the phone.