Degree planning TESU

[sarahmac]

Im curious is it possible to do the capstone and cornerstone without having all 113 credits. Basically I have an opportunity to do a paid masters (sponsored by work) starting sep 2022 but I need to have a complete undergraduate degree before 20th of August. I know there's a semester starting early March at excelsior. Is it possible to transfer in about 90 credits, do the capstone and cornerstone by May and then do the left over credit in June and July. Also is there a deadline for when all the work should be completed by in order to be eligible for the summer graduation.

Noone else has mentioned it so I will: what A Levels did you take? A levels are accepted for college credit in the US because they are equivalent to the first year or so (why their degrees are four years and ours aren't). If you took A Level Maths and Further Maths, for example, you would at least get a couple math credits based on that. The content of A Level Maths is roughly equivalent to Calc 1, 2 possibly 3 and Stats or Discrete Math depending on what options you took. So even if you weren't awarded credit for all, testing out via Study.com, Straighterline etc would likely be a walk in the park if you remembered everything.

I did A Level Maths with Stat 1 and Decision 1, for example, and that easily covered a US Intro Stats course, the Discrete Math on Study.com (unfortunately not currently accepted by TESU), Calc 1 and Calc 2. I am redoing Calc 3 before taking Linear Algebra because I kind of tapped out by the end of A Levels - History was so much work and by core 4 of Maths I was over it.

Yes I read somewhere that each a level is 3 credits but it's at the discretion of the university to accept them or not and I'm not even sure how to proceed, do I need to have them evaluated?
Yes I did maths and Biology unfortunately did not pass chemistry so I dont think it will count for anything.

How many credits they are worth is based on the individual university. Penn State gives between 6 and 9, for example, and even Stanford gives you two different classes if you did Maths and a third if you did Further Maths too (again, 6-9 credits). A lot won't pre-specify if they will give credit for stats, discrete, mechanics 1 & 2 because it's down to the school which classes you took.

Your A Levels would need to be evaluated same as your degree to get direct credit for them, through an international evaluator. If you remember everything though, I just used my existing knowledge, did some past paper practice, and tested out. This works out fast and cheaply if you remember everything and is more expensive if you don't (Straighterline membership is 100 dollars a month, plus you pay to take an exam).

I filled out the associate's degree AOS in maths at TESU by testing out:

Calc 1 & 2 (Straighterline), Discrete Math and Geometry (Study.com), Stats and "College Algebra" (also known as GCSE Maths lol) (Sophia), and there's a couple of TECEPs that are math credits, as well as CSM Learn (transferred as Business Maths at TESU). 

While I had Sophia membership, I also did the other Gen Ed classes.

No matter what route you decided to go based on your prior degree stuff as your major, you could definitely add the associates in maths quite easily.