High School Students

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It takes an average StraighterLine student about 40 days to complete an online college course. Of course, you can finish one of our classes in less than a week if you wanted. See how this student took college algebra in one week.


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StraighterLine Helps High School Students Succeed in College -Before They Get There!

College Success Begins in High School 

Research shows that, of every 100 high school students:

  • 87  Plan to attend college i 
  • 67 Will enroll ii 
  • 48 Will enroll in credit-bearing courses iii 
  • 19 Will take developmental courses iii 
  • 4 Developmental students will complete a four-year degree iv 
  • 26 Remaining students will complete a four-year degree v

Initial research shows that among high school students who have taken college-level courses, particularly math, college graduation rates double. vi

What is the best way to improve your college success? 

AVOID DEVELOPMENTAL CLASSES — GET A HEAD START.
StraighterLine can:
Give you a leg up on college and Save you money

Freshman Year College courses costs as little as $39 per online college course plus a $99 per month subscription fee. That’s between $600 and $1000 for a whole year of college – more affordable than most community colleges. You can start and stop at any time and can move as quickly as you are able.  

Make sure you are college-ready

StraighterLine offers self-paced developmental math and writing courses that you can start at any time. Using a short, free, low-stakes online assessment, you can get a sense of whether you should start in remedial college courses or in credit bearing courses when enrolling in college. If you take this self-assessment early in your senior year, you will have the remainder of the year and the sum­mer to get up to speed.  

How we help you

StraighterLine offers self-paced online college courses that students will need to take in their first year of college, no matter where you go. These college courses have been reviewed by the American Council on Education’s (ACE) Credit Recommendation Service. StraighterLine courses can be taken out­side of your school curricu­lum or as a dual enrollment option.

Individual courses and subscriptions come with up to 10 hours of live tutoring or essay review and assessment. Courses are self-paced and can be started immediately.

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i National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Postsecondary Expectations and Plans for the High School Senior Class of 2003-2004, January, 2010.

ii U.S Department of Commerce, Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, October Supplement, 1972-2008.

iii National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Remedial Education at Degree Granting Post-Secondary Institutions in Fall 2000, November 2003.

iv Thomas Bailey, Dong Wook Jeong, and Sung-Woo Cho, Referral, enrollment,and completion in developmental education sequences in community colleges, Economics of Education Review, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2010.

v NCES, IPEDS Graduation Rate Survey, 2008 Graduation Rate Survey. http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/index.php?submeasure=27&year=2008&level=nation&mode=data&state=0

vi Adelman, Clifford, The Toolbox Revisited, Paths to Degree Completion from High School To College, U.S. Department of Education, February, 2006.