Image via WikipediaBy Lee BinzJunior year is one critical moment in time when you are homeschooling high school. In freshman and sophomore year you can kind of "fly by the seat of your pants", but in junior year there are certain tasks that you need to do.
On the first day of senior year you really want your child to start to apply for colleges. This sounds easy enough and only applies to senior year except for one minor detail. If you don't know where you're going to apply on the first day of senior year, it's kind of hard to actually do the applying.
That is why much of junior year is spent figuring out what colleges your student is going to apply to. You do that by making sure that your child takes the PSAT, and the SAT or ACT.
These tests will tell them the approximate test score that they have so that they will know which college they will fit with. You can also go to a college fair so you can get an overview of colleges you may want to attend.
Another important task of junior year is to identify a school that you want to visit and then actually visit the college. Otherwise, you may discover it is not anything like the name that they have on the side of their buildings or what you see in their marketing brochures. You have to make sure that the college is a good fit for your child.
When you are homeschooling high school, pay attention to the college search during junior year and then you can be really successful.
Junior year is a big year for high schoolers. You have so many balls to keep in the air. You may find you need some help with it all. Lee Binz, The HomeScholar is an expert in high school homeschooling and has a newsletter that discusses homeschool friendly colleges where you can get answers to all your questions.
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