Expert reviews that catch the gaps before they cost you.
Real expert review of your student's plan — checked line-by-line against state graduation requirements, your target colleges' admission profiles, and (for dual-credit families) the receiving school's transfer policies. Written report in 5 business days, with direct line to your reviewer for follow-up questions.
Dual Credit Plan Review
The transfer credit defense plan.
Receiving colleges decide how transfer credits get classified — as equivalent courses that cover requirements (best), electives (not ideal but still OK in some cases), or every credit earned before High School graduation being dumped into a "Prior Learning Credit" bucket that some schools cap at 30 credits no matter how many your student earned (the heartbreaker). That cap erases entire years of work.
The trap hides from EVERYONE — including seasoned Independent Educational Consultants and the school's own recruiters. The right person to ask is the registrar, but most families never get there before they're emotionally committed to a school through a recruiter who's been working hard to help them get accepted. Recruiters genuinely want your student at their school — they just don't have the credit-classification answers. Families often get a well-intentioned "probably" instead of a verified yes/no.
Our reviewers go directly to the registrar at each target school, and we know exactly which questions to ask to get a straight answer — proactively, while there's still time to address what we find:
- Target-school transfer policy research We read each target school's academic catalog for PLC caps, equivalency lists, and the fine print, then contact the registrar directly with the right questions to confirm exact Dual Enrollment, AP, IB, CLEP, and other non-traditional credit policies. Verified yes/no answers, in writing.
- Course descriptions documented from each credit-issuing institution your student has earned credits from The artifacts a receiving registrar uses to classify a credit favorably instead of defaulting it into an elective.
- Pre-commitment evaluation, in writing Where each earned and planned credit is likely to land at your top-choice schools (including course-specific registrar assessment whenever possible2), plus tailored recommendations to reduce transfer-risk exposure.
- Includes everything in the MS/HS Plan Review State graduation compliance + custom High School Graduation Plan optimized to give your student the strongest admissions positioning for the target schools.
For context: comparable per-deliverable work from an Independent Educational Consultant with 0–4 years of experience runs $875–$4,6871.
Our pricing reflects a key advantage of working with homeschool families — you already know your student's academic record inside and out, which is a major head start no IEC starting fresh with applied assumptions would have.
MS/HS Plan Review
Validate the plan before senior year discovers the gaps.
Our reviewers compare your student's High School Graduation Plan against your state's homeschool graduation requirements — and, if you've named target colleges, against those schools' published admission standards too. You get back a written report: missing requirements flagged, courses recommended to close gaps, and (when target schools are in play) a custom HS path engineered to meet or exceed each school's admission profile.
Most states leave graduation requirements largely to the parent. That flexibility is an asset — but only if the plan is deliberately aligned with where your student wants to go. We make sure it is.
- 8th–10th grade — full optimization runway. Shape four years around your target schools' admission profiles before any choices lock in.
- Senior year — compliance verification + application prep for HS-only college applicants. Catch the gaps before applications go out.
Common questions
Which Plan Review do I need?
If your student has any college-credit work on their transcript or planned (Dual Enrollment, AP, IB, CLEP, early college coursework), you need the Dual Credit Plan Review. The PLC-trap research and course-description documentation only matter when there are college credits in play — and the consequences of skipping that work can be five-figure in tuition.
If your student is on a strictly homeschool-only path with no college-credit coursework, the MS/HS Plan Review is the right fit. State graduation compliance + admission-profile optimization for your target colleges, without the dual-credit transfer research that wouldn't apply to your situation.
When is the best time to get a Plan Review?
For the MS/HS Plan Review, the highest-value window is 8th–10th grade. That's when there's full runway to shape the next four years around your target schools' admission profiles before any choices lock in. Senior year is the second high-value window — for compliance verification and application prep for HS-only college applicants.
For the Dual Credit Plan Review, the right time is before commitment becomes irreversible — which usually means before your student starts applying to colleges they're seriously considering. Earlier is better, because it leaves room to adjust the dual-credit strategy based on what we find at each target school.
What if my student hasn't picked target colleges yet?
That's fine. The Plan Review still does the state-compliance work and gives you a clean read on whether the current plan adds up to a graduation diploma. Where target schools aren't named, the admission-profile alignment work is skipped (we can't optimize for schools you haven't picked) — but the foundational compliance review still delivers value.
Many families come back for a second Plan Review once target schools are identified, with the school-specific admission optimization and (for the Dual Credit Plan Review) the transfer-policy research layered on top.
What does the deliverable actually look like?
A written report, signed by your reviewer, delivered through your prevvu account within 5 business days. The report walks through every finding section by section: state graduation compliance, target-school admission alignment (when applicable), specific course recommendations, dual-credit transfer findings (Dual Credit Plan Review only), and concrete next steps prioritized by impact.
You also get direct contact access to your reviewer for follow-up questions about the report. We document every registrar contact attempt and response and provide the full contact thread by plan review delivery. If we receive additional information after delivery, it's forwarded to you immediately.
Why don't I just call the school myself and ask?
You can absolutely call the school yourself — and many families do. The challenge is that "the school" isn't one role with one voice that universally has deep knowledge of every policy. When you call admissions, you usually reach a recruiter or admissions counselor (the gatekeeper) who genuinely wants your student at their school. They're skilled at the application and acceptance side, but they don't typically have the credit-classification answers at hand. That's the registrar's domain — in a different department, with different access to the policy detail buried in catalogs.
So families often get well-intentioned hedges ("probably," "I think so") instead of verified answers. By the time the actual answer surfaces — often after acceptance, when the registrar evaluates credits formally — the family and/or student are emotionally committed to the school (or have already posted their acceptance and excitement to attend on every social account they have). Our work is going directly to the registrar with the right questions, proactively, before that emotional attachment forms — so you know whether you'd be put in a position where you'd have to give up some of your hard-earned credits to make that specific school work, or if they'd cap your credits-earned-before-HS-graduation investment at 30 with no exceptions.
Our reviewers approach each target school as a domain-research inquiry rather than a specific-student application — which gets us to the registrar (the information holder) with the right questions, instead of getting routed back through admissions for hedged answers. The result: written verification of how a student with this credit history would actually be classified.
Waiting until you're on the hook and committed puts the school back in the driver's seat. Once their tuition revenue is at stake, they want to maximize those dollars and the answers shift accordingly. Getting the information while you're still deciding yes-or-no — when they want any of your tuition dollars — is when you have the most leverage.
Can I get a Plan Review without subscribing to the software?
The Plan Review is sold à la carte and doesn't require an active subscription. That said, we'll need access to your student's plan data during the review — which means either an active prevvu subscription (so we can review what's in the app) or arranged data delivery during the review window.
Most families combine a Plan Review with an active subscription so the recommendations we make can be implemented directly in the planning tools. The Close the Books Pack bundles a Dual Credit subscription with an expert setup if you're starting fresh.
How does this compare to hiring an Independent Educational Consultant?
Independent Educational Consultants (IECs) typically offer comprehensive multi-year college planning packages, with new practitioners (0–4 years of experience) pricing per-deliverable equivalents in the $875–$4,687 range1. That work is real and legitimate — many families benefit from a multi-year consulting relationship that goes well beyond what a single Plan Review covers.
Our Plan Reviews are scoped differently — and there's a specific reason that scope works at this price point: homeschool families are uniquely positioned with deep knowledge of their student's academic record. You know every course, every grade, every dual-credit hour, every supporting document. An IEC starting fresh with any new client has to do significant intake-and-discovery work before they can even begin the analytical part of the engagement. We don't, because that context is already structured (often inside the prevvu app itself).
The MS/HS Plan Review focuses on state graduation compliance + target-college admission alignment. The Dual Credit Plan Review adds transfer-policy research and course-description documentation for earned dual-credit work. Both deliver as a single written report in 5 business days, with direct line access to your reviewer for follow-up questions.
1 Private Prep, Cost of College Admissions Consultants: 2025 Report, based on IECA member surveys and market analysis (Dec 2022–Sep 2025). New practitioners (0–4 years experience) charge $3,500–$18,750 nationally for comprehensive 4-year-partnership packages; the $875–$4,687 figure represents the per-deliverable equivalent for fair comparison with a single Plan Review. Hourly rates range $150–$2,500/hour across all experience levels. College admissions consultants who specialize in homeschool college planning represent a small fraction of the overall market.
2 Registrar response times vary widely. We make every effort to contact the registrar at each target school and request course-by-course transfer evaluations in writing. We document every contact attempt and response and provide the full contact thread by plan review delivery. If we receive additional information after delivery, it's forwarded to you immediately.
Ready to validate the plan?
Five business days, in writing, with direct access to your reviewer. No subscription required.