U.S. High School Credit Courses

Authentic U.S. High School Online Class

Type of Class

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Customized

Small class for
3-6 students

Large class for
12-25 students

Genuine U.S. high school credits

AP credits boost GPA strongly

Standard GPA system of U.S. high schools

Foreign teachers from St. Mary's School

20+ Courses

Meet different course selection needs

Credits and transcripts

Recognized by universities in the United States and around the world

AP Course GPA: maximum of 5.0

Regular Course GPA: maximum of 4.33

SMOA Grading System

Genuine U.S.high school credits, transcripts
Recognized by universities in the United States and around the world

AP U.S. High School Credit Courses

AP is an abbreviation for Advanced Placement, which is a higher level of difficulty than regular high school courses and is closer to the difficulty and content of U.S. undergraduate courses. In the U.S., the GPA of a regular high school credit is 4.0, while the GPA of an AP credit is 5.0，which is highly efficient in improving the applicant’s high school GPA and academic background!

Taking AP courses in high school and earning AP credits can help students improve their GPA，show their academic strength to college admissions officers, demonstrate their spirit of continuous research in their professional fields, and enhance the competitiveness of college applications！

U.S. colleges attach great importance to the applicant’s level of difficulty in taking courses during high school, and some popular majors at prestigious schools also have specific AP subject selection requirements for applicants.

Students enrolled in SMOA AP U.S. High School Credit Courses can take AP exams at SMOA’s mainland China testing centers without traveling to Hong Kong China or overseas.

Regular U.S. High School Credit Courses

The National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) has been collecting statistics from more than 200 U.S. colleges and universities for nearly 11 years, and publishes the top three key elements that truly influence college admissions：

College preparatory courses taken in high school (77%)

GPA in all subjects taken in high school (74%)

Intensity of high school courses (64%)

The top 100 U.S. and world colleges and universities generally set minimum application thresholds for applicants’ high school GPAs when recruiting students. The chart on the right shows the GPA requirements for admission to MIT and the top 20 U.S. colleges and universities.

There are also strict and detailed rules about the specific subjects that applicants take in grades 9-12 in high school.

For example, the UC A-G curriculum system of the University of California system requires that high school students take two years of history and social science courses with a grade of C or above, including U.S. History, U.S. Government

Students can take authentic U.S. high school credits courses online, which are highly valued and recognized by leading universities in the U.S. and around the world. It helps students to：

– Rapidly meet the GPA and course requirements for college applications.
– Credit Makeup/Credit Recovery
– Improve GPA
– Improve internationalization and application competitiveness

SMOA offers a variety of U.S. high school courses to meet the needs of applicants in English language and literature, math, science, social sciences, arts, business and other areas of study. Flexible online learning mode and personalized American-style classroom suit different students’ needs.