Avoiding unweighted electives to keep the GPA up

PlantMom
Tue, 05 May 2009 11:39:14 +0000

Too bad about the PE requirement, Kelowna. In our state, the virtual school (FLVS) is treated as a regular brick and mortar public school–it’s even SAC accredited, funded with tax money, certified teachers… As a result, all high school credits earned online must be and are treated the same as credit from a regular high school. Thus grades and credit (with weighting) from any course ranging from PE to AP Calc goes on the student’s regular school transcript as if the course were taken in the regular school. Now, the other way to look at this, since this thread is all about manipulating numbers, is that you don’t choose what goes on your transcript with FLVS courses. Their courses count just as much or just as little as regular school classes.

I don’t know how UC would view online credit, but our state’s university system does not differentiate the FLVS courses from regular school courses. Many students use FLVS for convenience or to take a course not offered in their school. It makes a ton of sense to have the flexibility a public virtual school offers because of the portable format, and many, many Florida residents (>50,000? enrollments last year) take advantage of it. Oh, and it’s free!!! I suspect that more states will adopt this alternative method of public education in the future.