chains1910 wrote:
Hey everyone. I'm planning on taking a class or two to boost my quant profile, and I'm curious if it makes much of a difference whether I take these courses (likely business calc and stats for business) at a community college. A number of prestigious universities have solid online course options, but those are about $3,500 whereas my local CC has courses for about $350. Do you think it makes a huge difference when we're talking about one class. Any one have experience with this?
I talked to an admissions consultant who said that it was best to take well-known schools' online courses than local CC because the quality of CCs is so variable that it would be hard to quantify whether your A was really an A.
I've only started to research online courses, but it seems like UCLA is the cheapest school at about $555 a class. There are some self-study modules for $195, but I'm not sure if they are graded or not (and what it would look like on the transcript).
I really want to look in Coursera since it's free and Ross has an Intro to Finance class that's Pass/Fail... but then again, not sure how schools would receive this either.