<p>Well, I'd like to start this off by saying I'm a freshman and my high school is not that great academically. Some classes are a joke as to what they have within them, and some classes that are really great just get cut due to budget cuts. I also don't like the whole high school scene very much. </p>
<p>I was wondering whether or not dual enrollment within a campus public high school and an online school would be worth it. </p>
<p>I prefer to do things online nowadays, and feel like online education is just somewhat tailored for me. Not only that, there are many more courses available online, challenging and interesting, that I could do. Of course, there are also classes I feel I would benefit more from attending school, so I don't want to leave my high school completely. I also would like to stay in the clubs and sports teams that are at my current high school.</p>
<p>I'm very interested in things relating to International Relations and Business/Entrepreneurship, and there are some electives for those available online while there are none at my school. I would also like to take Japanese online as it's not available at my school either, though it's not my major concern. </p>
<p>So is this actually worth it? How many other people do things like this? If you are one of them, would you recommend it? Are online schools actually that good, or are they just okay? What are the better online schools (I live in Minnesota if that makes a difference) that aren't too expensive? How do colleges (mainly Ivy League/Other top universities) look at dual enrollment/online schooling?</p>
<p>Thanks for reading this, and any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>it sounds like you already know that you want to do online courses.</p>
<p>Does your school or district offer independent study? I did that my sophomore year. It was self-paced, and I could also dual enroll in classes at the local JC. Pretty ideal, imo.</p>
<p>I know that I want to, I just want to know if the online education is actually worth it. I kind of want to know if anyone else does this and what their thoughts on doing this is.
My school does have independent study, but it is only for juniors and seniors.
And sorry for sounding dumb, but what is JC?</p>
<p>Junior college, I think.</p>
<p>Yeah I’m dual enrolled with my public high school and my districts “eschool.” It’s pretty nice because you can sleep in, work at your own pace, and even get ahead on your work without interruptions. All it really takes is the ability to focus and not get distracted by twitter and reddit haha. Eschool is great, and since we have an actual eschool in my district we have the added benefit of being able to actually go to the building to work with the teacher in person if there’s something we need extra help with. Not sure if that’s the case with you, but I think online schools are getting more and more popular because of the comfort and wide range of courses. In fact, it’s even a graduation requirement at my high school to take at least one online course!</p>
<p>Really? That sounds pretty awesome. My district has an eschool technically, but it has very few courses, none of which I really want to take.
Well, YouTube and reddit distracts me every now and then, but I can probably discipline myself after a while.
How many classes do you take online vs. offline? If I were to dual enroll next year, I’d probably choose classes that need hands on stuff to understand it (American Studies H (which is AP US plus English 2 H), Chemistry H, PE, and Speech) and the stuff online would probs be (Chinese 2, Japanese 1, Pre Calc H, Health, and AP COMP Sci). Do you get more HW online vs offline? Because then I’d need to cut some classes out (my school does 7 class periods a day plus lunch, and Health, Comp Sci, Pe, and Speech are each a semester while Amstuds is a block class). </p>
<p>Any recommendations for online schools as well? I know there are a couple for my state that I could do for free.</p>
<p>Well I only take health and economics honors on eschool, so they’re pretty easy. Mostly the work is just quizzes and reports. There’s work sheets and stuff but most don’t need to be submitted so I just skip them. I hear health is a lot less work online than in my school though. I think you’ll be fine to take harder classes as long as you don’t get far behind on your work. A lot of my friends take eschool Spanish though and say languages online are really hard, so fair warning lol. I can’t really offer any recommendations because I just use the program my district uses. I can’t remember what it’s called, but it’s based out of Florida a very popular because when you google quiz questions you get tons of word for word yahoo stuff lol (another perk of online courses).</p>
<p>I see. And how much extra work is given to someone who takes an honors or AP course online versus a regular course online? Is it just like it would be at school?
I can understand that with languages. I took Chinese rosetta stone online last year and it didn’t help too much, but now that I take the actual course and know what I am doing, the online course wouldn’t be that bad. And Japanese is just another class I would like to take to get me more in tune with what I would like to do out of college (International Relations and/or business in China, Japan, Korea, etc.) </p>
<p>Yeah, I think I would def. consider this for next year. Just have to get things checked with my GC. Any other tips/recommendations?</p>