15 or 16 credits needed for residency?

[help8]

Hello everyone.

I am new here. I will be starting TESU in January, hopefully (I am waiting for my financial aid to be applied to that term).

I have a question about the residency requirement. I intend to take 15-16 credits in one term to avoid paying a residency waiver. I always see people on this forum say that 16 credits at TESU are needed to meet the residency requirement, but I see on TESU's website it says only 15 credits are required?

What is the credit residency?

In order to satisfy the credit hour residency requirement for the Per Credit Tuition Plan, students pursuing an associate degree or a bachelor’s degree must earn 15 semester hours of Thomas Edison State University credit via the University’s Online, Nursing Online, Guided Study or e-Pack courses.

https://www.tesu.edu/admissions/faqs/cre...24ca06a4-2

I don't want to not take enough credits, but I don't want to take an extra 1 credit class if I don't need to. 15 credits will be more than enough. 

I have to take 12 non-epack credits to max out my financial aid, so I will be doing that. And I will take one epack, and if necessary, a 1 credit course, either medical terminology (already took it before and it would be a good review for me, or the Jane Austen one).

I am scheduling a meeting with an advisor, but I wanted to check with this forum as to why it commonly says 16 credits are needed.

Thank you!

I intend to make another post with more details about my degree plan but just quickly I have 98 credits transferred in for math BA. I might want to also get a CS BA - without the 9 credit AOS overlap rule I would need to take about 5 extra SDC courses - but it would be much easier for me to just finish math, so I probably won't. I have all the math courses completed from long ago, and only need some electives and the capstone and other necessary class now.

[Jonathan Whatley]

The requirement is now 15 credits (15 semester hours). It used to be 16 credits (16 semester hours). The posts you're seeing referring to a 16 credit minimum are surely from years ago.

[help8]

Ok. Thank you! That makes my life a tiny bit easier. I just wanted to make sure.

[natshar]

There used to be a 1 credit required class you had to take at TESU. So the 16 credits made sense and was easy to do. But when they dropped the 1 credit required class (replacing it the current 3 credit SOS-1010) it makes a whole lot of sense for it to be 15 now.

[LevelUP]

The most credits you can take using the flat-rate term rate is 16 credits.