Online courses?

[xnfs93hy]

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This has nothing to do with my college admissions thread besides the fact that I want to take advanced courses.

I recently found this: http://cdis.missouri.edu/high-school-subject-courselist.aspx?subj=o&l=h

I can take these online.

My question is: If I were to take a course online and put on an application, resume, whatever...would colleges (other than Mizzou) take it seriously?

Let me just throw another piece of information out there. I am in NJ and am a Junior right now. I live in one of the towns that make up the Jersey Shore. I really cannot find many options that are local except for the community college in which I am already involved in two classes (the max I can take). I am in NO AP classes or IB or whatever the hell they are called.

Another question, is there a way to take AP classes online or SOME OTHER WAY other than just going through the school. There are other colleges like 40 minutes away but thats too far to drive during the school week, I was going to ask if colleges offer AP courses. I don't know.

Is doing all of this online a good idea? Let me know. And let me know if you can dig up anything in my area because I cannot find anything.


Last question. My friend attended a pre college program at a college (which he just got accepted to). He told me he took seven classes and got A's and B's and one C and got a bunch of credit (I cannot remember everything he told me). Anyway, he said I should look into programs that are offered by the colleges that I want to apply to, like University of Kentucky or Mizzou. Is this worth looking into or not?


Thanks.

 

[Az1698]

Should have just taken ap classes...

 

[MilkmanAl]

You can take AP exams without having taken the AP classes, and online courses are treated exactly as courses taken at the college, as far as I'm aware. I've never heard of pre-college programs, but they sound like a fast way to get lots of credit.

 

[xnfs93hy]

You can take AP exams without having taken the AP classes, and online courses are treated exactly as courses taken at the college, as far as I'm aware. I've never heard of pre-college programs, but they sound like a fast way to get lots of credit.

Alright, thanks. Pre college programs are offered by a lot of colleges. Basically you go there during the summer and pay whatever amount you need to pay and take a bunch of classes and get credit and live in a dorm and dine with college students, etc.

 

[chemmastr]

You can take an online calculus course, with the recommendation of your advisor, at SFSU. You also get 4 college credits.

http://www.cel.sfsu.edu/calculus/

I took this class, I was scared to death at first, and yet I succeeded with an A. The professor who teaches this class is really really good. There are students from across the nation who take this class (which is also offered during winter and summer sessions). The course prepared me really well for Calc II (also an A). I plan on having my brother, who is still in high school, take this class when he is a junior.

Also, you should take summer courses at a Junior College and obtain college units there. You can also include into your college applications that you are ambitious and serious about school and use these two mechanisms as examples.