homeschooled teen - opinions wanted about TESU vs COSC

[cookderosa]

i just want opinions about which you would choose if you were starting from zero.

He's our third child to homeschool and we have explored many avenues of homescholing -classical to unschooling - so we we aren't nrw to this, we are members of HSLDA and know the ropes.

We DO encourage a lot of volunteer time and are pursuing options in the fields he has expressed interest in - I didn't think it was relevant to my question so I didn't explain.

We wouldn't enroll him in either school at this point -unless he chooses to, he's 18 next year. We were just looking at the two options and I wondered which one people from here would pick -and was hoping for a "here is why" answer too...because it could help him look at them with a different view, different critique. My only answer about why I chose the one I did was because TESC took more of my chemical dependency counseling credits as transfer and used them in ways that were better than COSC. But he doesn't have that same background.
We aren't going to run out and apply right now. I was just wanting your opinions about which school you would pick of you were starting with NO credits.
Maybe I put too much info and then not enough. But I'm really just looking for opinions about the two....not looking for advice on what we should do ---if that makes sense.
I honestly dont know that he will choose either one. But getting opinions on how people view the two could help narrow it down to one that he can create a plan for -having goals and directions that are more specific has helped in the past but we always stay flexible for changes.
Thanks!!!

Sure, I understand.
What "I" would choose starting from zero (as all kids do) would be "none of the above."
Specific to those two schools, COSC and TESU are exactly equal.