Will my high school accept Coursera college credit?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>My high school offers dual enrollment through a Running Start program, and many kids decide to replace their junior and senior years, or only some periods, with college classes at the local community college. They fulfill their high school graduation requirements with the equivalent at "college level," and get college credit at the same time. I don't want to do that, because I'd much rather take AP classes. </p>

<p>My schedule is filled for next year. One thing I noticed recently, however, is that Coursera (a newish online platform for taking college-level classes offered by Duke, Stanford, Rice, etc. for FREE) is offering five new classes, which can award one with college credit. One of those classes is pre-calculus (<a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/precalculus%5B/url%5D"&gt;https://www.coursera.org/course/precalculus&lt;/a&gt;), which I will be taking in school next year. </p>

<p>If I were to take the pre-calc class as a dual enrollment class at the community college, it would be put on my high school transcript as "Pre-Calculus" but with a thing that says it was through Running Start. If I took and passed the Coursera course on pre-calculus, do you think my school would accept it as a high school math credit, and do the EXACT same thing that would be done if I took Running Start? The credit offered is from UC Irvine. </p>

<p>I just want the high school credit, not the college credit. My main goal is to free up a period, so that I can take another class. Online classes at my school are free, but if you want to add an extra period like I did this year, it's $300 per semester (ridiculous). I'm on Spring Break, so I have a while until I can talk to my counselor (well, three days). What do you think?</p>

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<p>Mind you, just those five courses offer actual college credit. All other courses on Coursera only award certificates of completion.</p>

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<p>That would depend on your school. Looks like you’ll just have to wait 3 more days.</p>

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<p>But the incertitude. Do you think any school would do that?</p>

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<p>I think there are probably some schools that would allow that, but think most wouldn’t…I don’t think mine would. But then again, I don’t know what yours is like. Best of luck though. Let us know how it turns out.</p>

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<p>i have a question, if i successfully passed a course in Coursera, can i put that in my resume? i have taken a genetics class at coursera, and hope to major in biology, so maybe that’s quite relevant?</p>

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<p>My school certainly wouldn’t allow it. They actively discourage kids from taking CC classes - we’re only allowed to take them if it’s not already offered through our school, and if we do manage to take them, the amount of high school credit we get for it is ridiculously minuscule. However, YMMV. Check with your counselor.</p>

<p>@tigerash, I don’t see why not. I am not well versed in the ways of resumes, however.</p>

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<p>Im pretty sure most dont accept it.</p>

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<p>did they allow it?</p>