I am seeking input to students and or parents of students who have taken courses via Virtual High School.
Please outline which class you took, your experience, and if the class was in addition to your existing course load or as a replacement for a course period during the day. Please also provide input on how colleges view the class on your transcript, and if the colleges are aware that it is an online class.
Thank you.
Hi, Current Sophomore here,
I’m currently taking AP Psychology on FLVS (I’m a little over half way finished with the course) and I just finished Sociology through my counties virtual school program. I take these classes in addition to my 7 courses at school and my experience has been good grade wise, the teachers seem to just grade on completion leading to some really easy A’s but honestly I don’t feel like I’ve learned anything.
Sorry, I have no idea how colleges view online courses.
For if colleges know if a class is online, I don’t know about you but my county puts the ‘school’ where the class was taken on your transcript so the colleges would see that.
Thank you so much - this was very helpful.
I’m a senior and this is my second year in online school. I take all of my classes online (6 classes as a junior and I’m taking 8 this year). I believe that colleges do know that it is online, and my counselor also wrote about it in her recommendation letter why I switched to online instead of regular school. I know it’s pretty d