What About College?
Without grades or a traditional three to four year equivalent of each subject, the concern about getting into college is understandable. Luckily, we offer multiple options for students to submit materials to colleges so that they can choose how to best represent their time at ExperiSchool.
Transcripts
When your student applies to college through ExperiSchool, your college councilor will send a letter that offers an overview of how our unique progress tracking works. Along with the letter, we include our written transcript, which consists of comments from teachers detailing your student’s growth and performance in each of their courses.
You may opt to send a more traditional, graded, transcript instead or along with the comments.
In rare situations, students may decide not to send any form of transcript, instead relying only on a portfolio and interview to convey the work they have completed throughout high school.
Courses
Colleges will receive a letter from ExperiSchool explaining our student-driven curriculum. We provide a list of the courses your student has enrolled in, as well as the subjects they cover, since many of our courses span multiple subjects.
Schools also receive a copy of your student’s Agora ProgressMonitor portfolio, which details the individual skills acquired throughout their time at ExperiSchool.
Many students also include a portfolio of their work from school. This may include visual art, maker projects, writing, music, dance, and more. For students applying to schools that do not use portfolio management systems or do not accept traditional portfolios, we help build a portfolio website for your student that may be submitted as an online presence.
Testing
Most students choose not to take the traditional 3-4 years of each subject at ExperiSchool, so we offer test preparation courses and workshops to help students get ready for the SAT/ACT. In these courses, students learn test-taking skills, along with taking practice tests and individual work.
Our math prep course is required for all students taking standardized tests for college unless they have completed at least geometry through algebra 2. Even after completing these courses, we still recommend enrolling in a prep course. Even though they are not supposed to go beyond algebra 2, tests sometimes include elementary functions, trigonometry, and analytic geometry problems.
Note: many colleges no longer require standardized testing