As the counselor for your homeschooler, the Common App asks you for things few parents have written before. This page writes the school profile from your transcript, helps with the three Homeschool Supplement explanations and the counselor letter with word counts, and lists your School Report answers.
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 accountFrom the Common App's own forms for 2026 to 2027. Your student adds you as counselor in My Colleges; the invitation does not carry over to another application year. You submit the School Report with the official transcript, including courses in progress and a transcript legend, and you may attach a school profile, which the Common App suggests keep to one or two pages. The Homeschool Supplement asks for three explanations of 1,000 words or less each: the homeschool experience and environment, the grading scale or other methods of evaluation, and any courses from a distance learning program, a traditional school or a college. The counselor recommendation, a short evaluation of 1,000 words or less, is only for colleges that ask for it; the Requirements Grid shows which do.
Build the transcript and course descriptions first: this page reads them for the same student.
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.
The homeschool supervisor, usually a parent. The student invites them as counselor in the Common App, and they complete the School Report and the other counselor forms.
The form asks for three short explanations of 1,000 words or less each.
No. Not every college requires the counselor recommendation. The Requirements Grid in the student's application shows which do.