Advice needed with Admission and Foreign Transcripts. TESU.

[rachel83az]

A lot of helpful info, thank you so much again for your help, I really have no idea what I'm doing and have been struggling to get into some sort of secondary education for quite some time. I definitely recognise the importance of enrolling before January however I am about to embark on the busy season for my line of work so I will be unable to dedicate much time for studying and don't really want to pay for anything that I am not actively doing right now. Perhaps I would be able to finish the 7 classes from Sophia in the next month between my job while only having to pay the 79$ monthly fee and then be able to enrol with TESU before January but only fully start studying in the new year.

Yes, this is fine. The reason for Sophia is to reduce the likelihood of them asking for your foreign transcripts. There's no guarantee, but you'll need to do Sophia courses anyway so you might as well bet on not having to get your transcripts evaluated! There are a number of Sophia courses that can easily be knocked out in a day or two. The best ones to start with would probably be:

• Human Biology
  
• Intro to Information IT (if you know how to turn on a computer, you'll probably finish this one in just a few hours)
  
• Environmental Science
  
• Approaches to Studying Religions
  
• Art History I (but not II yet; II is more time-consuming)
  
• Visual Communications
  

The grouping of Sociology, Psychology, Greek Philosophers, and Ethics could also work but a lot of people have issues with the Sophia ethics course so it's not the easiest way to start. You're welcome to complete any others you're interested in (like the US history) but hold off on English Comp, Public Speaking, and Business Law for now. These require essays that take more time/work and you might not be able to complete them in the month.

Do you think this is feasible or is it most cost-effective to only start putting in the subscriptions and such when I have more time to dedicate to studying? I'm definitely interested in the Liberal Studies option if it easier and more streamline as my main goal is to have a BA so I can go teach English in South Korea in the next year or so. Thank you as always for your advice and assistance and I hope you're having a fine day!

I think it would definitely be a good idea to lock in the catalog right now. Your application will be good for 12 months. As long as you fully enroll within that period, you're good. You don't have to do a bunch of stuff right now. You can definitely hold off on most of Sophia and credits from elsewhere. Just pay for the 1 month of Sophia and the TESU application fee.

Changing goalposts before you're able to apply could, in the long run, result in even higher costs. My degree is going to cost me about $1500 more than it would have if I'd kept the same catalog as when I started. Shifting goalposts mean I need a course that wasn't required a couple of years ago (the capstone used to be optional). It doesn't look like that same thing will happen again any time soon but you never know with universities. You can see a basic BALS plan here: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Ge...egree_Plan I'll do both History and English so you can compare and do what you are most interested in.