Online High

Insight School of Colorado has begun to offer college credit for certain courses through Axia College. Axia is part of the University of Phoenix. Not surprisingly, all three - Insight, Axia, UOP - are all owned by the same parent company.

An excerpt from the article:

Insight School of Colorado, a full-time, diploma-granting, online public high school, offers college credits to its students through the Pathways Program at Axia College of University of Phoenix.

Pathways Program courses are offered 100 percent online; take nine weeks to complete; and count for three college credits and one Insight credit. Currently, there are twelve Pathways courses that students can choose from, including Environmental Science, World Literature and Philosophy, to name a few. Students must have a grade point average of 2.5 or higher and must be a junior or senior in order to earn college credit.

To read the rest of the article, go to Online School Sends High School Students on the Right “Pathway” to College

Spring is in the air. Well, almost, and a young boy turns his fancy to college admissions essays. Which is as it should be. However, if it is too good, if it is too mature, if it is really written by a parent or a professional admissions essayist, this is not a good thing.

Some admissions offices even call this “DDI” meaning “Daddy Did It.” If it is too good, admissions offices have been known to cross-reference your essay with the essay portion of the SAT. Oops. Easy to forget that admissions officers now have a second readily available writing sample.

Dude, do your own work.

From the Boston Globe:

Sometimes it is the choice 10-cent word or two, a spot-on sublime or consummate, that is the giveaway. Maybe it is a series of suspiciously skilled turns of phrase, syntax the envy of Strunk and White, or some pitch-perfect metaphors that raise the red flags.

While I know this blog is primarily about online high schools, I read this short article in Parade Magazine last weekend and the title was, wait for it, Why It’s Tougher to Get into College.

Because of those darn baby boomers, there are 800,000 more high school graduates this year than there was just ten years ago. Oh yeah, and that 4.0 may not cut it. There was a time that should have enabled you admittance to almost anywhere.

Princeton University this spring rejected 4,200 students. Actually, truth be known, they rejected significantly more than that. The 4,200 are just those who had a 4.0 GPA. This is not uncommon for big name schools. Regardless of GPA, UCLA turned down 38,000 applicants.

So, this tells me that you need more than a good GPA. What does it tell you?