Advice for a 13-Year-Old Working Toward a Finance Degree

[rowan555]

No. I actually wanted to ask you what you thought of Straighterline!

My son has been homeschooled all his life, and the first test he ever took was the ACT in 10th grade. To say he is test-phobic is to put it mildly. Straighterline has been great because he doesn't mind reading textbooks and learning that way, and the proctored final is worth relatively little, so it's difficult to fail a course based on a poor score on the final (one exception is statistics where the final is worth 50%). My son actually started with Saylor, where the whole grade was based on the score on the final - and it made him terribly anxious - it was 9 super cheep credits, then he hit a wall with economics and failed both of those finals by a few points. That's when I began looking into Straighterline. I ordered used books on Amazon, he pre-read the books for 5 courses, and in doing that he was able to get through 7 courses in a one month membership - it was fantastic! He's signed up right now for one final month and doing the same - He's already knocked out organizational behavior, psychology, intro to accounting, and managerial accounting, and now he's doing statistics and communication - all in one month. There is no way he could do that much in one month via CLEP, and it would also cost a lot more.

He also did Study.com with the Guardian Scholarship and earned 15 credits that way - but he was not a big fan of the massive amount of small chapters/quizzes. One good thing about Study is that they have some upper level courses SL doesn't have - so he'll be doing one more month of Study to knock out project management and one other upper level course as his last step before enrolling at WGU.