<p>Will taking online courses such as CS101 from Udacity help increase my chances of getting accepted to a good college by making my college app stand out? </p>
<p>Please elaborate enough for me to understand why or why not.</p>
<p>(I can only take AP java at my school since I am in mathematics major)</p>
<p>It won’t help too much sorry to say. I took one and they basically threw it out. They are super spooked about accountability, and a lot of online courses are designed by grad students, not professors, so the course isn’t like being in the real course. It just isn’t as intense.</p>
<p>Nope! Unless you have extenuating circumstances requiring you to be in an online class, too many of them may cause you to be rejected simply because you took so many! </p>
<p>Online courses (as well as classes at community colleges) are held accountable to no universal standard and thus are regarded extremely cautiously. Take two, take three, maybe take four, but lemme tell you babe, take no more!</p>
<p>I understand that mooc’s aren’t exactly the most popular things around, but they are my only options, since I want to study engineering at Cornell’s School of Engineering, but again, I can only take one AP on CS at my school. The problem is that I cannot demonstrate my interest in this subject without taking online courses (I plan to take all CS courses). </p>
<p>So…what you guys are saying is that even if I take like 3-4 mooc’s in the same subject, it would have little to no effect on my college application? Should I just forget these classes?</p>
<p>And thanks for your replies so far guys</p>
<p>(Also, I am obviously doing things like software club at my school, but that was only for junior year and probably senior year)</p>