<p>Hello, This is my first time posting here. I homeschool my son who is doing all high school level work. He is currently taking some courses through Stanford's EPGY program, but we are also considering having him take additional classes from a variety of other programs. My main question is how do colleges look at these courses? We're not looking for college credit for them, just a good high school transcript that have grades other than "mommy grades". Does anyone have experience with the following programs and how colleges perceive them? Good, bad and ugly comments all accepted!</p>
<p>1) EPGY, of course, which I have heard has a good rep with colleges, but still asking anyway :-)</p>
<p>2) Brigham Young's Independent Study Program for High Schoolers</p>
<p>3) Keystone High School ischool</p>
<p>4) any others that you may know about.....</p>
<p>We live in GA, but my son won't necessarily be going to a GA college. Around here, if the courses are not from one of the big regional accreditations (in our area it is SACS), the public universities put up a big stink in accepting homeschoolers.....so I would like to stay with distance learning programs that do fall under the regional accreditations.</p>
<p>I am not sure at all how colleges view distance courses, but, Harvard's Extension school appears to have some excellent choices and the price is very reasonable. There's also an online forum here on CC - it doesn't seem to get a lot of traffic - but other resources referenced there include Columbia, Syracuse, etc. so you might want to visit that forum.</p>
<p>I also homeschool my son and he takes classes from the local university, the local community college and also from the Harvard Extension school.</p>
<p>Are you asking about distance high school classes or dual enrollment college classes?</p>
<p>As far as I know, colleges look at distance learning classes just like they look at classes offered in other high schools -- did the student take as rigorous a course load as possible? honors and AP classes are available through many distance programs.</p>
<p>My suggestions would be that you post on the college confidential homeschool forum -- lots of experience in college applications there! Click on Discussion Home and scroll down to homeschool.</p>
<p>Texas Tech offers high school distance education. My school district accepts it as credit, and I think it has a program where you can take all your classes through there.</p>
<p>DD took her last 2 years through the Texas Tech program. Dual credit classes available, although she didn't do any. A smattering of honors courses, though they're not marked as such. Good feedback from the instructors generally. Reasonable price. DD applied to 8 LACs - was accepted at 5, with merit scholarships at all. As a homeschooler, it's best to do an interview anyway, and that's where your student can mention the distance learning classes. In our experience, they were rather impressed with them due to the responsibility/scheduling required.</p>
<p>I have also posted on the Homeschool Forum, but wanted to get as many opinions as possible.</p>
<p>I have looked at Texas Tech, but we decided not to use them. Glad to hear they are looked upon favorably.</p>
<p>We don't have a CC in the area, at least not within reasonable driving distance. Our state university system has too many hoops for homeschoolers to jump through just to take a class or two. I am avoiding them if I can.</p>
<p>I'll take a peek at the Harvard Extension School. Anyone have a link handy? I guess it should be easy to google, but in case it isn't a link would be great.</p>
<p>I am not a youngster being home schooled. But, I opted for the online BS option for University. And, I am taking extra University classes at BYU online for Grad School addy purposes. </p>
<p>In the south, HSHSMom, the SACS is the tops for sure. But, BYU is also accredited properly as well. I have noticed, that some people in the south think BYU odd, but I am deep in the bible belt, so that is more a religious thing. Sine the lot of BYU is properly accreditied, you do not have to worry because not every school is accredited by the SACS because not every school is in the south, so duh on the folks in Georgia thinking odd things.</p>
<p>I personally like BYU online classes because in all of my schooling, I have never met more kind folks with regards to feedback and most any sort of academic assistance. </p>