<p>I'm sure everyone here has heard of the edX courses. They do give certification when you pass the course but do they really count as extra curriculars?</p>
<p>Interesting. </p>
<p>Bump</p>
<p>^i like your username haha</p>
<p>Thanks goodnoodle lol</p>
<p>Yours is pretty original!</p>
<p>(Is it atypical asian or a typical asian? I’ve always wondered lol.)</p>
<p>edX is adding courses like crazy! Like a few months ago, they only had 10 or so.</p>
<p>why not?
Isn’t EC by definition what you do “outside the curriculum” ? So unless your HS curriculum makes you take edX classes then they are EC’s…</p>
<p>I think they can be considered ECs. I’m taking a course in edX right now for the fun of it; it isn’t required by my school’s curriculum.</p>
<p>I just looked it up is it free when they say non profit</p>
<p>Bump 10char</p>
<p>Atypical Asian (words separated by uppercase letters: AtypicalAsian</p>
<p>However, you have the right to see it any way you’d like :)</p>
I am also taking an edx course right now, and I was wondering if we get any college credit?
No college credit.
I wouldn’t really consider it an EC. Sure if you have nothing else to list. I would more consider it a supplement to an area of interest. You are in class and studying all day. Now they want to know how you engage the world. Most EC are something where you are engaging in the world more than taking a class, reading a textbook or wikipedia. That is a crude generalization/simplification but when I think of ECs I think of engagement with community, school, supervised research, sport of course and with related teamwork and discipline, arts such as theater and orchestra, quiz teams and tons of other stuff of course.
Disagree with BrownParent here. If you have an interest in some topic or want to develop a skill or expertise that isn’t taught at school, then completing an on-line class is a perfectly good way to proceed and it’s definitely an EC. Many ECs are self-taught and don’t have to be part of a community, supervised, organized, or otherwise formally recognized. I’ve interviewed excellent applicants for a selective uni who were artists, gardened, sewed, taught themselves a foreign language or wrote poetry as their ECs - all good.
That said, ECs are a way to develop skills that you don’t get to practice in school, a chance to interact with people you would not normally meet, a way to test your interests in different fields/areas - so don’t short-change yourself by doing only on-line courses. You’ll miss out on some great experiences.