NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- When students at Harpeth Hall School enter seventh grade, each is given her own laptop computer. By high school, students could be using the laptops to take a class with students across the globe.

"The possibilities are enormous for high school girls to take online courses, to offer electives that they couldn't get at their schools or upper-level courses," said Karen Douse of Harpeth Hall.

This year, the school is starting a pilot program with other all-girls schools across the nation. By pooling their resources together over the Internet, the school hopes to offer more advanced classes than each individual school could afford.

"I think it sounds like a great opportunity for them to take classes online that otherwise they would not have the opportunity to take," said Sherri Birch mother of a Harpeth Hall student.

The schools will start small but eventually hope to be able to offer the online classes to more than just private, all-girls schools. The plan is to expand it so that even public school students could tap into the system as well.

"It's just mind-boggling," said Douse. "This opens up so many avenues. It's just overwhelming sometimes to think about all of the possibilities."

"It's just a good thing. We hope she'll be able to take a class like this," said mother Martie Turner.