So, how about the online classes at high schools?

When I was in California, every once in a while I would come across high school students who were taking online classes at community colleges primarily because their small schools,or their homeschools, did not offer advanced courses. Well, that was before the Web as we know it today.  Naturally, I would expect a lot more highschoolers learning online; but, the data simply beats my estimates:

online education is spreading rapidly among secondary schools, a trend that raises many questions for admissions officials.

On Friday, Brian Lekander, program manager for Star Schools, a distance-education initiative in the U.S. Education Department's Office of Innovation and Improvement, described the rise of virtual learning in elementary and secondary schools. Thirty-two states have virtual-school programs, and 70 percent of all school districts offer online and distance-learning programs, according to the Education Department. In 2008, two million secondary students were enrolled in online-learning programs or in "blended" programs, which include face-to-face and online instruction. In 2000, that enrollment was only 50,000 students.

"It's going to drastically change over time what classroom education looks like," Mr. Lekander said.

Sure,evaluating their work for admissions is one task.  But, there is another aspect--these students will be quite comfortable in the online environment and could even favor the online classes over the regular ones.  I mean, this is a demand to which I had not quite given a lot of thought ....