<p>Has anyone heard of this yet?
I'm thinking of enrolling, but they say i must have finished education equivalent to that of a freshman because it's a 3-year school. I was wondering if i could get in- my math&sci is around 9th grade level or higher.</p>
<p>Does anyone know well about this?</p>
<p>The EPGY high school is brand new starting in September. You may want to go to the website and check it out. <a href="http://epgy.stanford.edu/ohs/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://epgy.stanford.edu/ohs/index.html</a> To apply, you'll need some standardized tests scores and the patience to fill out the application which requires more essays than any college application.</p>
<p>My son has taken several EPGY courses. They are excellent. The new courses to be developed for the high school will likely be outstanding, too. If you decide to attend, would you come back and tell us all how you like it?</p>
<p>well, that is if i CAN attend. i need to prove to them that i have finished the education of a freshman.</p>
<p>It sounds like people like the Stanford courses, but everyone always says "but they are very expensive".
and they only took one or two. I would be curious also to know if people think the quality is up there with the price!
How is the tech support? How responsive are they to questions, problems? How would people compare doing this program to attending a local community college? I would love to hear more feedback, also. Has anyone tried the Univ. of Miami program? Thanks</p>
<p>EPGY tech support is great. In fact, they are not only knowledgeable about technical problems, but also very helpful in straightening out problems with admin, which frequently tries my patience. Sometimes I can reach tech support immediately, but usually I have to leave a message. Often they call back within minutes, but always within 24 hours. </p>
<p>I don't know about all community colleges, but the courses at the one near me are not even close to EPGY courses in quality or rigor. The community college courses go faster than courses at the local high school, but don't cover the material in any more depth. EPGY does go into more depth and expects the student not merely to be able to solve problems similar to homework problems, but to thoroughly understand the theory and be able to apply it to a variety of problems. You'll be expected to do a lot of proofs if you take EPGY math.</p>
<p>Warning: don't take EPGY courses if you are wedded to your programmable graphing calculator. EPGY math courses limit students to basic scientific calculators on tests.</p>
<p>I would like to chat with either parents or students who went to the school full time. </p>
<p>Did you like it? Did it help or hurt your college aspirations?</p>
<p>Did you make friends with other epgy students?</p>
<p>Did you feel like a weirdo or disconnected from other kids your age?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I have a daughter at EPGY OHS. She likes it but it is nearly impossible to make real friends. If that is what is important to you I would go somewhere else. The classes are very difficult, taught by college professors - Ph.D.'s mostly. Out of their class of 15 seniors this year four of them have been accepted to Stanford early action, one has been accepted to Oxford.</p>
<p>I also have a daughter at EPGY OHS, part-time. She likes many of her classmates, and enjoys the sidebar conversations which go on during class. Her "real" friends are local, separate from this program, but she's met a few of the other students while traveling. She likes that she has contacts around the globe.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me approximately how many hours a day a student spends in "classes" and how many hours a day a student spends on homework? Do EPGY OHS students have time for extra-curriculars and social activities?</p>
<p>EPGY OHS students are quite busy. The classes are time-consuming in the way that college classes are time-consuming: students do a lot of reading and writing and problem-solving outside of class. </p>
<p>I'll ask the current EPGY OHS parents who are reading this thread to please contact me by private message about things we can do to fix the limited social interaction among students. This is by far the most annoying aspect of EPGY OHS, and I have long urged the administration to do something about this problem.</p>
<p>I'm an exchange student currently attending a private school in Oakland, California. I have to come back to my country for one year before I can proceed to college. I would love to apply to US colleges but don't really like the fact that I have to go to a normal high school in my country after spending one year in the US. Do you think that I should apply to this online high school? ( will it help when I apply to college next year?)</p>
<p>Applying to EPGY OHS is something other international students have done when they have returned to their home countries. EPGY OHS is very international.</p>
<p>Well I plan on taking some math classes there that are not offered at any local colleges, and also some more advanced physics (past AP Physics B and C), but I don't see a point in taking classes there, that are available at local colleges.</p>
<p>I recently went back into homeschool Sophomore year so that I could take AP Calc BC as opposed to AB, was also HS'ed 6th grade so I could take Algebra). This program is very nice, but I definitely would think hard about what classes you take. I am probably going to take 2 classes through them next year, and so far that is all that has appealed to me. They are a great program if you don't have access to those upper level classes though.</p>