Here's an article I saw at AOL: Online-Degree Acceptance: The Tide Is Turning, Even for Law School Jon Lamphier had long given up on his dream of becoming a lawyer. Years ago, he went broke, forcing him to drop out of the University of North Carolina (Raleigh, N.C.). It looked as though completing his bachelor's degree, let alone pursuing a law degree, was an unlikely prospect. ... As Jon's two-year tenure as an online student at Kaplan University drew to a close, his long-abandoned dream began to resurface. "I had completely given up hope of getting my J.D.," he says. "But as I got closer to finishing my bachelor's degree, I started to get inspired to make it work." After applying to law schools, Jon learned that Fordham University (New York) takes online learning a little more seriously than his co-workers did, and the school accepted him as a law student. ... When the secretary of education held hearings in February 2006 to learn about new ways to make education accessible, Jon was selected by Kaplan to represent the school. Included in the focus on higher education in America was the flourishing facet of online learning, about which Jon spoke very positively. "Since I continued from online school onto a traditional law school, I'm in a good position to make a comparison, and to attest that online education truly did prepare me well for the future," he explains. ...
