Reply to Considering sending my high school junior to college online ASAP

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Considering sending my high school junior to college online ASAP"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]
NP. Another thing to check on, OP: Will the credits from online transfer easily once she goes to college? If they don't, she may later feel truly burned that she did the work but got no or limited college credit at the college she eventually attends. And that's a while away.

Please don't assume (or let her assume) that "I took this course already in HS online, so I can skip this requirement when I get to college." That's not a given. I'm not trying to discourage the idea, I'm just saying, don't look on this as "You'll get a two-year jump on some college requirements." Maybe it will be, but maybe not, especially as she likely has no idea, here at the start of junior year, where she'd want to attend college or what she'd want to focus on there. (If I missed something earlier about her being super focused on one subject already, sorry.)

Even many AP students discover that AP courses they thought meant "I can skip a class in college" do not work that way; colleges can and do require students to take that college's version of the course. Not every time, but it does indeed happen. (Friend's DD had straight As in all her APs and fabulous AP exam grades, and was appalled and upset to find that her university did not "let" her skip classes lots of classes freshman year -- her college said, "We need you to take the foundational class in this so you're taught it the way WE teach it here." I would think that college level courses could hit the same issue. Of course online credits and CC credits transfer all the time! But it's not a perfect one for one crediting system. (Unless maybe you're talking about the Northern VA Community College (NOVA) program that is affiliated with specific VA four-year colleges.)

She's a junior, and frankly by the time she's ready to start her freshman year, in the fall of 2022, in-person college in whatever form it takes is going to be doable again. I do get the idea that you feel she's going to be bored with online HS, but if taking college classes online while also doing HS courses burns her out on studying, it might backfire. Unless she pushes for this herself, I wouldn't recommend it. Or wait and see how the first semester of junior year of HS goes, and if she's bored stiff and it's incredibly easy, then add a college class online starting in January, not the fall.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics