Alpha Academy with AICE Diploma
Alpha Academy (A2) is a school within a school that prepares academically talented students to succeed with the most rigorous course load possible and to compete for the top colleges in the nation. Alpha Academy students will complete the Cambridge Diploma by the conclusion of their junior year which will earn an automatic 100% Bright Futures Scholarship without the need of a qualifying ACT/SAT score.
Students will complete a minimum of 35 hours of community service per year, with the expectation that every student will have completed a minimum of 100 hours by the end of their junior year.
BENEFITS
Ø Cohorted classes*
Ø Earn college credit
Ø Full diploma program
Ø Qualify
for Bright Futures Scholarship
Ø Prepared for college
success
Ø Flexibility
Ø Career focus
Ø Recognized by colleges
and universities
*AICE core courses will be cohorted.
What is AICE?
AICE, which stands for Advanced International Certificate of Education and is pronounced like the word "ace," is a set of challenging college-level classes for high school students. It was developed by Cambridge Assessment, a non-profit, non-teaching department of the University of Cambridge in England.
Like the AP and IB programs, AICE was designed to give students the option to pursue a more rigorous and ambitious curriculum by teaching you key skills to succeed in college-level work. At the same time, AICE classes and the diploma structure are flexible enough to let students tailor the coursework to their specific interests and strengths.
Besides the academic and intellectual appeal of learning in greater depth, AICE lets you earn an advanced diploma to boost your college application. It also has the potential to get you college credit or let you place out of intro courses once you're a freshman.