<p>In short: If you’re taking a with a state provider that’s not FLVS, I’d advise you to avoid APs. If you happen to live in a state where there are free online College courses, I’d advise you to take AP courses only after you’ve decided you don’t want a life, didn’t want to pass that AP test anyway, and would like to see what if feels like to not get into the colleges you want.</p>
<p>Honors and Standard courses online for me were awesome; they let me avoid all of the behavior problems in way too boring face-to-face classes. They’re a great way to keep something to do over the summer, and if you pick them right–they can be fun. You can also get those requirements out of the way so you can take the courses you’d like to take.</p>
<p>Online college classes are often given a bad name, particularly with community colleges. For me these classes were easy, OK, they are REAAAALLLY easy. But I learned much more than I did in high school classes and even AP classes–besides, they’re completely free and they will transfer to any instate, any many out-of-state schools.</p>
<p>When you take an online class you realize how much time is wasted in a face-to-face class, and least that was the case with me.</p>
<p>My old high school was truly terrible. However, I didn’t hear about distance learning until the summer before my junior year. I come from a low-income family so even though Keystone is only $300 a month, we couldn’t afford it. I eventually talked to my boss and got more hours at work so I could pay for it on my own, but that didn’t happen until three weeks after my junior year began. I could talk all day about my horrible high school, but I’ll give five examples to start:</p>
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<li> Usually at my school there were around 100 total AP tests taken each year (not students, tests). We were lucky to get 15-20 passing scores in any subject, and there were usually only 2-3 fives (usually for AP Psych).</li>
<li> I had a working alcoholic in first period, a bigot in second period, an ******* (but a pretty good teacher) for third and fourth period, a class that didn’t have a curriculum (it hadn’t been written yet) for fifth period, gym (in the classroom 2/5 days a week) for sixth period, and an English class for seventh period in which we got graded for copying the answers to worksheets off the board.</li>
<li> A man came to our school from a modeling agency. The principal let this man set up in the cafeteria. He collected information on dozens of students, including their addresses, numbers, names, and photographs. A week later someone decided to background the guy. There was no modeling agency, and he was a convicted violent child sex offender. Awesome work.</li>
<li> Not only was my AP Euro class weighted, every test was given an extra 20%. Most people failed (i.e., got a 60) but ended up with a B. For the chemistry final exam, the grade wasn’t changed but the grading scale was. Students needed only a 35% to pass the exam with a D.</li>
<li> I wasn’t allowed to take any of the courses I wanted to take (e.g., AP courses).</li>
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<p>Does anyone know any good online classes for a NJ resident? Hopefully cheap too? I’m currently a senior and want to take two online classes (thatll hopefully transfer over to Rutgers) this summer to hopefully graduate undergrad in three years.</p>
<p>I took Latin I. It was awful–I barely scraped by with an A because there was no organizatoin and the instructor took as long as a month to respond to questions.</p>
<p>tcnj offers courses
usually local community colleges do as well
rutgers ALSO has courses that easily transfer over, but they’re like 300 dollars a credit, so kind of expensive.</p>