Help choosing between two programs for this Fall

[bjcheung77]

Honestly, everyone is going to think differently, you'll be swayed in all directions, the only one who can decide is you... Advice is just that, you're looking at what others are going to recommend you, but ultimately, you make the final decision.  There are so many various pathways you can take to get to your end goal, it depends on what you have for the addendum and template (which you haven't filled in to provide a bigger overall picture, such as your budget, scholarships, tuition reimbursement, timeline, support system, commitments, and the whole nine yards).  In order to help you better, that's the main thing I tell people to provide, otherwise it's like giving people a puzzle with half or less pieces and asking to have the full thing completed...

Here's an example I've used before, pretend you want to get a degree at Harvard Extension School, a Bachelors in whatever and it's going to cost you $50K for 4 years of study. I usually recommend people to skip that and instead go for the Masters that will cost you $40K and take 2 years, as the admissions is only a Bachelors, you can get a cheap, easy, fast, public/state institution (not the for-profit ones).  You get a Bachelors and Masters for less and you have an extra year to work on something you want to work on, such as a gap year volunteering at an orphanage or something, that can be paid for with the savings you'll get... Or use that cash you saved to send your parents to a 'good' holiday vacation to Hawaii, or whatever else that comes to mind!

Another example, there are ways to go about doing things differently, it depends if the institution you're going for will allow a second Bachelors or not.  Someone on this board (and also a member of the sister board) had something similar, but instead they wanted a NYC SPS degree and that institution doesn't allow second Bachelors, this is my recommendation to them, you may also want to read the entire thread from first to last post to get more details (Awesome eh?): https://www.degreeinfo.com/index.php?thr...ost-556434

If you're adamant in going for this particular degree from Georgetown, maximize the transfers using CLEP, you get 54 in electives entirely FREE using ModernStates, you can get 10 extra freebie credits if they allow it in the Gen Eds/Major.  Thus chopping it down from $48K to $24K, you also save a year of study doing this way as you can get those 64 credits in less than a year, saving you energy, money, time... My advice used to be the cheap, easy, fast ways, then it streamlined to better ROI/Value, lastly or more recently, my suggestions now are usually more personalized to each individual after they provide details in the addendum/template...