Will my chances to get into a university be affected with an accredited online high school diploma?

Pre-College Issues Home Schooling and College
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I switched from traditional high school to online high school (Connections Academy) in the 10th grade because my social anxiety became too severe to the point I was getting panic attacks almost every day at school which made me unable to function at the best of my abilities. I’ve always been a straight A student, always in the Honor roll, and I volunteered constantly in my middle school. I also wanted to have a flexible schedule to do more extra-curricular activities and volunteering. Currently I have 50 volunteering hours through the Big Brother, Big Sister program and also from volunteering at my local humane society.

I’m a junior taking Physics, Honors Pre-calculus, AP English literature, Honors/AP Government, and Web design. My sophomore year I had a 4.1 GPA and got all A’s, all of my core classes were honor courses as well. My 9th grade GPA was a 3.3 which I am not proud of but I’m working to recover it by doing better in my junior and senior year. I have not taken the ACT but with the practice test I got a 31.

I have done dual-enrollment in my sophomore year at my community college in which I took a writing class. My therapist recommended me to do this to improve my social anxiety, and I am planning to do another dual-enrollment program as a junior this year.

TLDR; Are my chances to get into university (particularly Ohio State) affected by graduating from an accredited online high school or do colleges look past that if I have a good GPA and high ACT score?

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I wonder about that too. I am also a homeschool student taking my classes through the Florida Virtual School.

3

How you apply to colleges will depend on how you are enrolled in the programs. Both FLVS and Connections Academy are online public schools. If you are enrolled as a public school student, then you apply as a ps student with those transcripts. If you enrolled as a homeschooler, you apply as a homeschool student and only have those schools provide transcripts for the individual classes you take from them.

Either way, having an accredited diploma will not hurt you. Why would you think it would? Most homeschoolers have transcripts with a variety of outsourced classes and an unaccredited diploma.

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Yea I am homeschooled. But I attended a public high school before.

5

Through the Florida Virtual School

6

That makes me feel better! I just thought that my chances in going into the college I want would be lower with obtaining a high school diploma online.

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No that doesn’t matter.