I’ve received several pieces of email from people who contact me about going to school online. They recognized some of my work as my classroom (online college school) work. I have written many pieces when I was going to school online. Some of them I have revamped to put into a form to post on Associated Content. I had spent a lot of time to research many of my college papers.
I want to share my experience with you, having been to both online school (collage) and brick and mortar type college campus. As a single mother I originally started going to school at my local community college taking two classes at a time. I would get my grandmother to watch my daughter while I went to college. When I finished my college courses at my local community college and it was time to start a four-year college and/or university, online schooling had become very popular. I spoke with many of the online schools before I choose a college. The college I choose was Colorado Technical University. The reason I choose them was because they offered both brick and mortar (they have three college campuses) plus they offer several college degree programs online.
I worked very hard, giving up many typical mom events to go to college and finish my degree. I finished my degree last year. So with my new found college degree ( I graduated with a 3.92) and my work experience, I put together a new resume and started sending them out. I received a few interviews. So with my degree in hand, and my many years of management experience I landed an interview with “Google” they have many positions opening up in my area for their ad words division. I thought to myself, wonderful, I’m Internet savvy, sales background, management background what a great match. I can’t say that the interview went so well. It went downhill once the person giving the interview asked me where I got my college degree. I explained to him that I was a single mother and I started out part time at my local community college and finished up at Colorado Technical University with their online college program. The interviewer said to me “Oh you have one of those degrees.” You are probably saying to yourself that is not so bad. It was the way he said it. “Oh (deep voice, long pause), you have (emphasized) one of those degrees.” From there the interview with Google just went down hill. He then asked me what year I took the SAT or ACT. The interviewer from Google might as well ask me what my age was. I answered, “It was awhile ago”. The interviewer from Google said, “well guess, about how long ago”. I finally spoke up and said if you are looking for how old I am, I am BLANK years old. (I thought to myself, a woman never tells.) I received a turn down letter from the interviewer at Google, one day sooner than he said he was going to send it.
After the interview with Google, the first thing I said to my mother was, I didn’t get the job, he didn’t like how I got my college degree. I called the college where I received my college degree, Colorado Technical University, told them about my experience with Google. The college assumed me, my degree was no different had I gone to one their brink and mortar college campus. A few weeks later, I spoke to Phoenix Online University about going back to school for my Master Degree program. I told the student advisor my story with Google, and how shocked I was that an online company such as Google, viewed online college degrees.
Moral of the story, before you spend thousands of dollars going to school at an online university, check with your major local companies to see if they accept online college degrees.
