You graduate June 2027, so these applications go out this fall. The earliest deadline is Point Loma on November 15, which is roughly twelve weeks out.
Biola's homeschool policy states the transcript "should include a letter grade assigned for each subject studied, beginning in the ninth year of schooling, as well as the signature of the homeschooling parent or agency representative."
This was logged back on August 13 as a tidiness item. It is not tidiness. It is a hard requirement at the school where you have the most to gain, and the application window is open now.
The parent signature is already covered (certified by Holly Johnson, mother and teacher), so this is only the grades. Also fix the email typo on the transcript, it reads cooperjohnson2008@gmail.com and is missing the "a". Senior year is still empty too.
Owner: Holly, and it blocks Biola outright| Biola | Point Loma | Cal Baptist | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early deadline | Nov 30 Early Action | Nov 15 earliest | Dec 5 priority |
| Decision notified | Jan 15 | Late Nov through Dec | Early, then rolling |
| Regular deadline | Mar 1, 2027 | Feb 15 priority | Rolling, no hard cutoff |
| Deposit due | May 1 | May 1 | Rolling |
| Application fee | Common App | $55 | $45, possibly waived |
| Test policy | Optional, but scores set your award | Optional, but 1470 earns money | Not used for admission |
| Classes begin | Late Aug Inferred | Late Aug Inferred | Late Aug Inferred |
Stanford's Restrictive Early Action on Nov 1 prohibits applying early to any other private college, which would block both Point Loma's Nov 15 and Biola's Nov 30. Cal Baptist is fine either way because rolling admission is explicitly allowed.
Apply Regular Decision on January 5 instead and you keep both early deadlines. Full Stanford breakdown.
You asked about move-in, and the honest answer is that fall 2027 term dates are not published by any of the three. Unverified
Both Biola and Point Loma start August 31 in 2026, so late August 2027 is the working assumption, and move-in is typically three to five days before classes. Treat that as approximate until the 2027-28 calendars post rather than booking anything around it.
This is the counterintuitive trap on this page. All three are test-optional for admission, but your 1470 drives money at two of them.
Their merit grid needs any 2 of 3 criteria, and SAT 1430 or higher is one of them. Your 1470 is literally half of what earns the $24,000 President's Gold.
Withholding the score here would be expensive.
Tiers are awarded on "unweighted GPA and scores received on the SAT or ACT". Scores feed the award, so the same logic applies.
Their grid is GPA-only (4.0 earns the $18,000 Trustees), and they state scores are "not required or used for admission", accepted only for English and math placement.
Submit or skip, it makes no difference.
The separate deadline that matters more than any of this: the Trustee Scholarship, full tuition, roughly 10 awarded, due mid-January on its own application.
Who writes the academic reference for a homeschooler whose teacher is his mother? Unverified Point Loma does not publish guidance, and most schools will not accept a parent for the academic letter.
Possible answers are a co-op instructor, a dual-enrollment professor, or an exception granted by admissions. This is the kind of thing that quietly kills an application if it surfaces in November. Call now.
Their Early Action is worth more than most. Point Loma has capped enrollment, which makes the cycle genuinely more competitive later. Applying November 15 is a real advantage, not a formality.
CBU asks homeschoolers to "contact your admissions counselor regarding proper formatting standards for your official transcript."
You already have one. A CBU admissions counselor emailed you personally on 2025-12-11 offering to answer questions. That is exactly what this contact is for.
FAFSA for the 2027-28 aid year should open around October 1, 2026, though it has run late in recent cycles, so watch for it rather than assuming the date. Watch, do not assume
At roughly $300k of income it will produce no need-based aid at any of these three. File it anyway: some institutional and outside awards require a FAFSA on file regardless of need.
The first three are all "now" items and none of them depend on each other.
Deadlines, fees, essay requirements and homeschool policies all come from the schools' own admissions pages.