<p>Anyone here taken any online High school courses (Honors or AP level) to accelerate your sequence of courses in high school?</p>
<p>I've taken online AP courses (well and honors too but that was freshmen year) . . . I took one this year and one last year. It was more to get every class I wanted into my schedule than to accelerate my high school curriculum.</p>
<p>did you take them thru your high school or thru online high schools elsewhere in the US? my son is being rejected from 2/4 freshman honors level courses. my husband and i don't want him sitting in college prep classes as honors level is necessary for top colleges starting straight out of the gate freshman year. could you comment on their quality and were you satisfied?</p>
<p>galgrl24,</p>
<p>can you also tell me where you took the online courses. i am looking for something high quality. you seem like you are very smart from just a cursory glance at your posts. my D is also a junior and took the AP chem exam Tuesday as well. she took the new sat in March and scored 2,240. she also went to that harvard/duke/yale/georgetown admissions meeting. we found it boring in that they really didn't tell you anything new or exciting you don't already know. i am grateful for any info. you could share about online courses. i thought about having my son take the honors bio this summer. i thought honors world history on top would be too much in a summer. i am wondering if the school would allow him to take the courses online ouside of school during the school year. then, you are virtually in a dual enrollment. do you know anything about that?</p>
<p>lol, wow I went to that meeting with those four schools too. Anyways, I took my online classes on flvs (the site is <a href="http://www.flvs.net%5B/url%5D">www.flvs.net</a>). It's pretty well organized. Most of the teachers have tough (or are teaching) AP classes at normal schools. I took AP U.S. History online last year, and took AP English Language this year. I found U.S. History to be somewhat boring to take online, since there was so much reading to do. I personally would have preferred to have a teacher lecture and talk about history in a more interesting way. I thought English was fine though. The only difference between the online class and a real class was that I had to type the essays instead of write them, but that's not a problem, since I know I can write quickly enough when it comes to the actual AP test. I just took that exam last Monday, and I felt prepared for it though.</p>
<p>Personally, I didn't take AP classes my freshmen year mainly because they weren't offered at my school then (though I believe "Human Geography" will be for next year's freshmen).</p>
<p>Oh, and I've taken those two online course during the school year. I think the most important thing about taking an online course is how a person manages his or her time. So, if your daughter and/or son can manage their time well, I think online school is a good alternative to taking classes in school.</p>
<p>I also took Earth Space Science online my freshmen year and took a computer programming course. If you want me to elaborate on that, just let me know.</p>
<p>Hope this helps :)</p>
<p>it is all about how dedicated your kids are. For instance, last summer I took 12 classes online that were year long regular courses. This year as a soph I took 6 AP tests, 3 of which were self study. On the other hand I know some people who do a lot less work and still get into Ivies with few honors, less credits, and lower SAT's.</p>
<p>Totoboyo, where did you take your classes at? 12 classes is incase, what all did you take?</p>
<p>Do these online classes count for grades at school? Like would it count towards my gpa?</p>
<p>My online classes were just like ordinary classes . . . so, yes they count for grades at school and towards GPA. Though, to warn you, an online class isn't necessarily easier than a class at school.</p>
<p>Just be careful...some colleges don't accept online classes....NYU doesn't, for example. (I called and asked!)</p>
<p>online classes are not easier for the most part, you can always find really easy ones like Child Development, but the maths owned me. Their texbooks were around 900 pages. History was the same way. I would recomend them with some friends though. You could both take different classes and share the work. I'm bad ;)</p>
<p>Can anyone just make a list of online programs (urls)? Like Apex, virtual high schools, etc.?</p>
<p>websites of online programs:
apexlearning.com
cyberhigh.org
uccp.org
flvs.net (i think it was mentioned by galgrl24)</p>
<p>i think a couple of those sites require your school to pay for them (i.e. apex would cost $500 per semester for the school).</p>
<p>EPGY
Intelligent</a> Education
CCS</a> Web Academy
Gwinnett</a> County Online Campus
PA</a> Homeschoolers
Scholars</a> Online Academy
Virtual high schools - I know there are ones in Alabama, Arkansas, Californai, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisana, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia. Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee also have a combined one.</p>
<p>(Just a list.. I havn't used any of these services)</p>
<p>For something like Apex, and for a course like AP Psych, about how much work per week is expected?</p>