I was just wondering how colleges look at Online Classes look for colleges. I did Spanish 3 Online on Apex and I got an A- and a B+ (I know really bad). Will they B+ do me real harm and how do they think about Online Courses in general
I think colleges would prefer normal classes if you have the opportunity to take them. I assume you are taking them because you can’t otherwise. B+ won’t do you harm.
As long as you took the class through an accredited provider (which it appears you did), I don’t believe it should adversely affect you during the admissions process.
Also, getting a B+ in a Spanish 3 class that most people in high school aren’t even willing to take is nothing to be ashamed of, especially in an online setting. I know kids who struggled in brick-and-mortar Spanish 3 where they had a teacher in real time speaking to them.
I have the same question. I’m in a public high school, but there weren’t enough students in Chinese for there to be a teacher, so the school signed up all the kids who are taking Chinese for an online Chinese class.
I’m taking Chinese III Honors online, but how would colleges see that?
@needtosucceed27 You’re taking it because there’s no physical way you could have taken the class otherwise, so colleges definitely won’t fault you for that as long as you do as well as you would in an in-school class. The only thing is that in my experience, since aside from AP schools aren’t required to standardize their Chinese curriculum, taking Chinese online might set you up for trouble down the road (because the school expects you to go into next year’s class knowing the curriculum it taught the year before, not what the online class taught, which is often different) - but because all of your classmates are taking it online too it’ll probably be fine.
If you took an online class from an accredited provider because the class is not offered at your HS or you had a scheduling conflict (which your guidance counselor can note this in his/her recommendation) then there should be no issue. In fact the effort to follow up with your foreign language would be positively received.
However, IMO if you are a native speaker of a language and use an online class to get “credit” for a high level of a native language that is not offered at your HS in order to avoid taking a new language in an academic setting it will be less well received.
Thank you! I will also be taking AP Chinese online too.
What about doing Calc III online (taught by community college).
Finished Calc BC Junior year, so I wanted another math for senior year.