Senior schedule SNAFU/CTD online courses?

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<p>My daughter received her schedule for the school year, and it bears very little resemblance to the classes she had signed up for. We're assuming there were class conflicts and/or classes dropped for lack of enrollment. For the most part, my daughter is willing to go with the flow, but she is adamant that she will not take physics (she had signed up for geology/astronomy) or a one semester advanced lit class (she already has the teacher for two classes this year, which is MORE than enough...he's her least favorite teacher for, from my perspective, very valid reasons). </p>

<p>She's working at the school today and is hoping she will be able to discuss her options while she's there...although she may be told she has to wait until the first day of school on the 24th. One of the options she's considering is taking an online course(s) through the Center of Talent Development at Northwestern. She is going to try to find out today if her school will accept something from them in replacement of physics, at the very least. I'm rooting for AP Statistics; she's looking at the humanities classes. We'll hash that one out once she finds out what her school says...;)</p>

<p>While she's working that angle, I had a few questions. Does anyone have experience with the CTD online courses? Is acceptance into the classes fairly automatic? I'd hate for her to drop classes at her high school and then not get into a CTD class.</p>

<p>Has anyone taken the CTD online AP courses? The information we have says students are adequately prepared to take the corresponding AP test upon completion of the coursework. Assuming a motivated student, is this a reasonably accurate claim? My daughter's school doesn't offer any AP classes, so this is new territory for her (and me), and she's hesitant to sign up for an AP class. She could just as easily sign up for one of their "honors" classes and be happy, but if I'm going to pay for an online course, the AP route may be more cost-effective. </p>

<p>CC words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>CTD is fine but she could also look into the Distance Learning through Stanford.</p>

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<p>Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) also has distance education programs in math and English. <a href="http://www.jhu.edu/%7Egifted/cde/index.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.jhu.edu/~gifted/cde/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Mezzomom, I'm sorry you guys have to face this extra stress and will keep my fingers crossed that it all works out for you and your daughter.</p>

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<p>CTD is fine but it really depends upon the motivation and learning style of the student. From what I hear it is primarily reading the text and submitting HW, kind of like college survey classes at large schools. I prefer the EPGY style of interactive online classes with immediate feedback. CTD uses EPGY for a number of their math classes.</p>

<p>I hear very good things about JHU CTY. I'd like to hear more.</p>

<p>My son is in a similar situation and we are exploring his options.</p>