Your teen has completed their first few college credits and you’re ready to get some traction! Help Me Grow contains the next steps to bringing in more college credit, with intention, into your homeschool. Now is the time to grow your program in a way that gives your teen the most opportunity after high school.
Help me Grow Stage: When your teen has 9+ college credits.
- Budget. Setting Your HS4CC Budget
- Picking Classes. Homeschool High School Match-up Page
- Transcripts. Our HS4CC Big Transcript Program
- Things to Know. As your teen starts to earn college credit, nuances that require careful understanding may arise. Understanding these more advanced topics will help you become an exceptional guidance counselor in tough situations.
- Will it Transfer? The best practices for making sure your teen’s college credit is accepted at their future college.
- Super Senior Year Pros and cons, will it help or hurt your teen?
- Alpha-Numeric Primer. A quick explanation of why and how the “ENG” and “101” appear in your teen’s college courses.
- Credit Laundering I want to earn a lot of CLEP, but my college doesn’t accept CLEP. Can I get it on a different transcript first?
- Happy Stories. I am so encouraged and inspired when I read the wide variety of success stories shared in our community. Whether your teen’s goal is traditional admission at a 4-year university, a 2-year technical degree, a formal apprenticeship, or even the military, we have no shortage of parents who have walked that path and are cheering for you to do the same.
- In 2025, I wrote Creative College Funding: How Smart Homeschooling Families Get Through College Without Debt. If that is a goal of yours, I urge you to pick up a copy at Amazon or your local library.
When is this stage over?
You can move on to Help Me Finish when your teen has more than 9 college credits but less than 30 and you have solid target or is in 12th grade.
Examples of a solid target:
- Wants to major in [fill in the blank].
- Intends to pursue a career in [fill in the blank].
- Has a short list of target 2 or 4-year colleges in mind.
- Has a non-college target in mind [military, apprenticeship, own business, etc.]
Teens without a solid target are advised against earning more than 30 college credits but can still move forward to Help Me Finish.