<p>Essentially the title. What do selective college's think of students taking online classes if the student has no classes left at their high school.</p>
<p>Would classes at a local U be preferable? </p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>If you have no classes left, doesn’t that make you a HS graduate?</p>
<p>Or, do you mean that you’ve taken the most advanced classes offered in X at your HS? If so, online HS classes are perfectly fine. Lots of people do that. So are dual-enrollment classes at your local community college or 4-year college or university. It really is up to you. Take a look at your schedule, the commuting time to and from the U you are considering, the cost of the different kinds of courses, whether or not you are truly excited about the subject matter, etc. and then you will be able to figure out what is best for you.</p>
<p>Okay, I will do that. My only concern is that a lot of people tend to see online classes as not as reliable as normal ones. The issue with me commuting is that the university is on the other side of the city, so half an hour away and most classes are during school. </p>
<p>So, 1 hour commuting + 1.5 hour of class = 2.5 hours of school time that need to be free… >.< which is kind of tough for me to manage.</p>
<p>Any other opinions? :D</p>
<p>Online courses, per se, are not the issue. The organization that offers them is. If you take them through your home state’s online high school, or through a regionally accredited college/university there should be no problem. Taking them through some fly-by-night for-profit organization could be. Talk with your guidance counselor and find out where students in your HS, school district, and/or state normally find online courses.</p>
<p>Okay, will do!</p>
<p>I think I’ll take Calculus 3 from UIUC Netmath, which should be accredited. I was thinking about EPGY but the software doesn’t seem very good, so whatever.</p>
<p>I’m meeting with my counselor on Tuesday so hopefully we can get this all cleared up.</p>
<p>It shows initiative. If you could take brick-and-mortar classes at a local university, that’s also good. But schools will not frown on initiative.</p>
<p>Craig</p>
<p>Both Stanford and Johns Hopkins offer on-line advanced math classes. D took one senior year and none of the top ranked schools in the US so much as blinked.</p>