are colleges impressed by this?

halcyonheather
Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:36:58 +0000

(I don’t know why people on here always act like doing anything to impress a college = being a complete sellout and losing your individuality. Some people have genuine passion but aren’t good at conveying it, and some people are really good at feigning interests, and I think it’s arrogant for a college to believe they can tell the difference after two seconds of looking at an application.)

But I don’t think Coursera courses would impress them any more than, say, self-studying an AP test would impress them. It’s a fairly common thing.