Clubs, sports, jobs, music, volunteering and awards, kept as they happen instead of remembered at application time. Log service hours by date, print a résumé for college and scholarship applications, and print an hours log a supervisor can sign. One record for each child.
A free parent account comes with a Home class. Add your children as students and see every project they make and every lesson they finish. See what they can make, by age.
Make a free parent accountThe Common App's activities section lists up to ten activities, each with a position of 50 characters, an organization name of 100 and a description of 150, and up to five honors. Enter them here in the same shape and they copy straight across. The counselor letter and the transcript are the other two pieces a homeschool parent sends.
Reference information reviewed August 2026 against primary sources (statutes, NCAA and Common App published requirements). This is general information, not legal advice; requirements change, so verify anything load-bearing for your family against your state's current law.
Almost anything done regularly outside the core courses: clubs, sports, music, art, a job, an internship, volunteering, leadership in a group, and family responsibilities such as caring for a sibling. Colleges want to see what a student did, for how long and what part they played.
Add a community service activity, then log each day with the date, the hours and what was done. The hours log prints with a column for a supervisor's initials and a signature line, for the scholarships and programs that ask for signed hours.
Up to ten activities and five honors. List the most important first; the arrows here reorder them.