Cowboy Concurrent Online
“Cowboy Concurrent Online” is Oklahoma State University’s new online concurrent program.
The classes will be completely free for admitted high school seniors. Their only cost will be textbooks, and we are investigating if there is a way to cover or reimburse students for these.
Juniors who are interested will have to pay $750 per class plus textbooks.
Admission requirements are
- A 3.0 GPA plus either
- An ACT of 24
- An SAT of 1160
- OR top 1/3 of class
PSAT or Pre-ACT scores for admission would be the same as those listed above.
Students must access the application for admittance and send a digital form to both counselors and parents. As a counselor, your job would be to complete and submit the digital form if you approve the student taking concurrent classes online. Attaching a transcript with test scores to the digital form would speed up the student’s admission process.
They are only accepting 500 students state-wide for this first year.
They will be offering six classes first semester
- Composition I
- College Algebra
- Psychology
- US History since 1865
- American Government
- Media in a Diverse Society
Psychology and Media in a Diverse Society will be elective credits. The others will receive the same credits as TPS courses.
OSU will be providing syllabi so we can crosswalk these classes before fall, get them approved for dual credit, and get them added to the Course of Study. I do not anticipate any problem with getting these approved for dual credit.
Students will need access to computers with headphones in order to “take” these classes during the school day. You will schedule them for a period for each class just as you do our current concurrent courses; however, since these are online, the period you schedule is completely flexible. Students will, of course, also be able to work on classes outside the school day, but in order to offer concurrent credit, they must have the course on their schedules.
OSU is working to develop supports for students such as a math lab. These supports will rely on email or perhaps videoconferencing.
