Getting the run around from local colleges

[Brian12]

I dropped out of college over a decade ago with 90 plus credit hours. While attending college in the past I took all of the classes needed to earn an associates degree. I recently decided that I would like to get that associates degree since I've already met the requirements for it. Unfortunately, all three of the local community colleges that I have applied to are asking me to take various humanities classes over again. I really have no desire to take these classes again. Can you folks tell me what schools would be a good option for me?

Thanks

[clep3705]

You haven't provided enough information for an accurate response. Why were you told this? Exactly what were you told? Do you make a D in a humanities class?

Are any of your credits from any of the local colleges? This is a very important detail. Brick and mortar schools typically require that you complete one fourth of your credits at the school granting the degree. Different schools may require slightly more or slightly less hours than one fourth. My local community colleges require 60 hours for an associate's degree with 18 hours being from the degree granting school. My local state university requires 120 hours for a bachelor's degree with no less than 30 hours taken from them.

Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak don't require that you complete one fourth of your hours with them.

[KayV]

West Virginia Northern Community College Board of Governors Associate of Applied Science degree. No cost and no residency requirement as long as you have 6 semester hours of English Composition; six of science and/ or math; six of humanities and/ or social science; and 3 hours of computers. If you don't have a recent-ish computer course, you could take the TEEX cybersecurity series for 4-6 no-cost credit hours.

http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...s-bog.html

[KayV]

If you still need to complete the English Composition II requirement, take the Straighterline version, not the CLEP.

[bjcheung77]

I highly recommend taking those 90 credits and sending it to Athabasca to see if you can get a Bachelors of General Studies.

http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...post230252
http://www.degreeforum.net/general-educa...post230260

[KayV]

Great idea about Athabasca! I saw the 90 credits and automatically thought quarter credits because 90 quarter hours= 60 semester hours.

[Notgodot]

If you still need to complete the English Composition II requirement, take the Straighterline version, not the CLEP.

With Athabasca, do you need a letter grade attached to the course? I see that it requires 30 upper level hours.

[KayV]

Athabasca requires courses to be "traditionally earned" instead of through ACE, CLEP, DSST, etc. However Athabasca does offer its own challenge for credit exams. In addition, they require 45 hours of upper level credit.

Isand2015, some people choose CLEP because it's free through military or job benefits. Others choose it over Study and Co. because they don't want to slog through a class. Whatever gets one closer to a degree....

[Brian12]

You haven't provided enough information for an accurate response. Why were you told this? Exactly what were you told? Do you make a D in a humanities class?

Are any of your credits from any of the local colleges? This is a very important detail. Brick and mortar schools typically require that you complete one fourth of your credits at the school granting the degree. Different schools may require slightly more or slightly less hours than one fourth. My local community colleges require 60 hours for an associate's degree with 18 hours being from the degree granting school. My local state university requires 120 hours for a bachelor's degree with no less than 30 hours taken from them.

Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak don't require that you complete one fourth of your hours with them.

I'm a former student at two of those colleges. I had 8 hours with the one school as a transient student and I think 15 hours at the other as a first time student. I did not fail or make Ds in the classes they are asking me to take over. I did take those classes at other schools though. Those two schools are asking me to take all sorts of classes over again such as english composition 2, a literature sequence and the one wants me to take my history sequence over again. That is on top of various humanities classes and one science class for the school I took 15 hours at.


I never attended the third school I applied to. They are pretty much giving me credit for everything except art history. So they are asking me to take one humanities class, speech and I guess I will need 3 more classes to meet the 15 hours in residence. Sadly, I can't get anyone to tell what three classes I can take. I would like to take Calculus 1 and 2 over again since I plan on going back to university to finish a bachelors in mathematics. Once I've taken a humanities class and speech I will have met the requirements for my degree so I'm worried that I will not be eligible for aid for the other three classes. I tried speaking to the registrar about this and she blew me off. She didn't answer a single question I had and was as rude as can be. No doubt because she couldn't answer my questions.

[davewill]

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I never attended the third school I applied to. They are pretty much giving me credit for everything except art history. So they are asking me to take one humanities class, speech and I guess I will need 3 more classes to meet the 15 hours in residence. Sadly, I can't get anyone to tell what three classes I can take. I would like to take Calculus 1 and 2 over again since I plan on going back to university to finish a bachelors in mathematics. Once I've taken a humanities class and speech I will have met the requirements for my degree so I'm worried that I will not be eligible for aid for the other three classes. I tried speaking to the registrar about this and she blew me off. She didn't answer a single question I had and was as rude as can be. No doubt because she couldn't answer my questions.

If the only purpose of the 3 courses is to meet residency, it is likely they can be any courses offered at the school. If the courses are needed to complete a degree, I don't see why they wouldn't be covered by aid. If you have to take extra courses, I would make sure they will apply to your bachelor's degree. Which means before doing this, pick the school for your bachelor's and map your degree path out.

Or take the WVNCC route outlined above where you might not have to take any more courses.