High Schooler needs help with Excelsior Degree map

[Life Long Learning]

Hey all,
My son is a sophomore in high school and has completed 13 CLEP exams for what should be 45 college credit hours. Our goal is to graduate from college when he graduates from high school.

I've been fine tuning his degree map in Management of Human Resources and had a couple of questions and I wondered if anyone here would check out my degree map to help me make sure i have it laid out right.

Here's the map:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJEW...sp=sharing

I had a few questions about the Business Core requirements.

1. Will what I have plugged in satisfy those requirements?
   
2. Business Communication - For this I was going to have him do UEXCEL Workplace Communications with Computers. Is this the right match? Any other CLEP's, DSST's that would apply?
   
3. Computers - For this I was going to have him take CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications. He is planning on taking AP Computer Science Principles his junior year. Will that be a duplicate of either UEXCEL Workplace Communications with Computers or CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications?
   
4. If you take the DSST Principle of Finance will Excelsior still count it as upper level. I thought I read they would count the UEXCEL course upper level but not the DSST.
   
5. International Business - I wasn't sure how to complete this course. Right now, I've plugged in the Excelsior online course BUS 435 International Business. Is there a better way to do that that's cheaper that Excelsior would accept?
   
6. Any other suggestions about the Business Core or the rest of the degree map?
   

Thanks for any help!

Hello,  I may be able to help. I specialize in 365 Degree coaching. I requested access to your document.

The thing about a free online community is that it really gives someone the ability to try it before they buy it.  I'm curious why someone with only 1 post should be given any money when hundreds of well-respected and knowledgeable members here will do it for free?

I guess if you specifically don't want to help a "paying" member here who isn't selling anything and who:

- contacted and talked to several colleges including Excelsior
- dug in, scoured all the resources on Excelsior.edu, CLEP, DSST, AP, Uexcel and other sites available
- researched, developed and posted a well developed degree map for all to see
--- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJEW...sp=sharing
- reviewed the course catalogs & policies at Excelsior multiple times before he posted in a forum specifically for Excelsior
- spent a couple of thousand on:
--- SpeedyPrep subscription for more than a year,
--- 16 CLEPS exam fees
--- 16 testing center fees
--- nearly that many REA study guides and online practice tests
--- parking and garage fees
- and who helped his son pass 16 CLEP exams when he hasn't even finished his sophomore year in high school

...then, why answer?

Don't take it personally, but many folks with one post can be scams.  We see it less here, but the other degree forum is famous for these.  I think you have a great collection of knowledge on the Big 3.  Some folks here have decades of this same thing.  None of us know it all and I have many hundreds of non-traditional credits if you look in my signature.   Even the best barack attorneys (Army slang for self-professed experts who rarely are) here are not the real thing as all three of the Big 3 will evaluate you officially differently.   Welcome, and please stick around and help when you can.

[cookderosa]

Hey all,
My son is a sophomore in high school and has completed 13 CLEP exams for what should be 45 college credit hours. Our goal is to graduate from college when he graduates from high school.

I've been fine tuning his degree map in Management of Human Resources and had a couple of questions and I wondered if anyone here would check out my degree map to help me make sure i have it laid out right.

Here's the map:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJEW...sp=sharing

I had a few questions about the Business Core requirements.

1. Will what I have plugged in satisfy those requirements?
   
2. Business Communication - For this I was going to have him do UEXCEL Workplace Communications with Computers. Is this the right match? Any other CLEP's, DSST's that would apply?
   
3. Computers - For this I was going to have him take CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications. He is planning on taking AP Computer Science Principles his junior year. Will that be a duplicate of either UEXCEL Workplace Communications with Computers or CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications?
   
4. If you take the DSST Principle of Finance will Excelsior still count it as upper level. I thought I read they would count the UEXCEL course upper level but not the DSST.
   
5. International Business - I wasn't sure how to complete this course. Right now, I've plugged in the Excelsior online course BUS 435 International Business. Is there a better way to do that that's cheaper that Excelsior would accept?
   
6. Any other suggestions about the Business Core or the rest of the degree map?
   

Thanks for any help!

Hello,  I may be able to help. I specialize in 365 Degree coaching. I requested access to your document.

The thing about a free online community is that it really gives someone the ability to try it before they buy it.  I'm curious why someone with only 1 post should be given any money when hundreds of well-respected and knowledgeable members here will do it for free?

I guess if you specifically don't want to help a "paying" member here who isn't selling anything and who:

- contacted and talked to several colleges including Excelsior
- dug in, scoured all the resources on Excelsior.edu, CLEP, DSST, AP, Uexcel and other sites available
- researched and developed our specific degree map and simply shared it on google docs here
--- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJEW...sp=sharing
- reviewed the course catalogs & policies at Excelsior multiple times before he posted in a forum specifically for Excelsior
- spent a couple of thousand on:
--- SpeedyPrep subscription for more than a year,
--- 16 CLEPS exam fees
--- 16 testing center fees
--- nearly that many REA study guides and online practice tests
--- parking and garage fees
- and who helped his son pass 16 CLEP exams when he hasn't even finished his sophomore year in high school

...then, why answer?

I think you're misunderstanding my reply. My reply was to the poster peatri1 who was soliciting YOU to pay HIM/HER money for advice that we ALL share and give here freely. You, as the parent, have access to the entire database of archives (which you DON'T have to pay for) and the altruistic members here who help everyone every day- simply by asking. No one here is getting paid for giving advice, and any money you pay to instantcert isn't going to any of us- so when someone new comes in here and starts SELLING ADVICE on his first post? Yeah, that's spam. He needs to go.

[glgamerica]

[quote='glgamerica' pid='255313' dateline='1520788854']
Hey all,
My son is a sophomore in high school and has completed 13 CLEP exams for what should be 45 college credit hours. Our goal is to graduate from college when he graduates from high school.

I've been fine tuning his degree map in Management of Human Resources and had a couple of questions and I wondered if anyone here would check out my degree map to help me make sure i have it laid out right.

Here's the map:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJEW...sp=sharing

I had a few questions about the Business Core requirements.

1. Will what I have plugged in satisfy those requirements?
   
2. Business Communication - For this I was going to have him do UEXCEL Workplace Communications with Computers. Is this the right match? Any other CLEP's, DSST's that would apply?
   
3. Computers - For this I was going to have him take CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications. He is planning on taking AP Computer Science Principles his junior year. Will that be a duplicate of either UEXCEL Workplace Communications with Computers or CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications?
   
4. If you take the DSST Principle of Finance will Excelsior still count it as upper level. I thought I read they would count the UEXCEL course upper level but not the DSST.
   
5. International Business - I wasn't sure how to complete this course. Right now, I've plugged in the Excelsior online course BUS 435 International Business. Is there a better way to do that that's cheaper that Excelsior would accept?
   
6. Any other suggestions about the Business Core or the rest of the degree map?
   

Thanks for any help!

Hello,  I may be able to help. I specialize in 365 Degree coaching. I requested access to your document.

The thing about a free online community is that it really gives someone the ability to try it before they buy it.  I'm curious why someone with only 1 post should be given any money when hundreds of well-respected and knowledgeable members here will do it for free?

I guess if you specifically don't want to help a "paying" member here who isn't selling anything and who:

- contacted and talked to several colleges including Excelsior
- dug in, scoured all the resources on Excelsior.edu, CLEP, DSST, AP, Uexcel and other sites available
- researched, developed and posted a well developed degree map for all to see
--- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJEW...sp=sharing
- reviewed the course catalogs & policies at Excelsior multiple times before he posted in a forum specifically for Excelsior
- spent a couple of thousand on:
--- SpeedyPrep subscription for more than a year,
--- 16 CLEPS exam fees
--- 16 testing center fees
--- nearly that many REA study guides and online practice tests
--- parking and garage fees
- and who helped his son pass 16 CLEP exams when he hasn't even finished his sophomore year in high school

...then, why answer?

Don't take it personally, but many folks with one post can be scams.  We see it less here, but the other degree forum is famous for these.  I think you have a great collection of knowledge on the Big 3.  Some folks here have decades of this same thing.  None of us know it all and I have many hundreds of non-traditional credits if you look in my signature.   Even the best barack attorneys (Army slang for self-professed experts who rarely are) here are not the real thing as all three of the Big 3 will evaluate you officially differently.   Welcome, and please stick around and help when you can.
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[quote='glgamerica' pid='255313' dateline='1520788854']
Hey all,
My son is a sophomore in high school and has completed 13 CLEP exams for what should be 45 college credit hours. Our goal is to graduate from college when he graduates from high school.

I've been fine tuning his degree map in Management of Human Resources and had a couple of questions and I wondered if anyone here would check out my degree map to help me make sure i have it laid out right.

Here's the map:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJEW...sp=sharing

I had a few questions about the Business Core requirements.

1. Will what I have plugged in satisfy those requirements?
   
2. Business Communication - For this I was going to have him do UEXCEL Workplace Communications with Computers. Is this the right match? Any other CLEP's, DSST's that would apply?
   
3. Computers - For this I was going to have him take CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications. He is planning on taking AP Computer Science Principles his junior year. Will that be a duplicate of either UEXCEL Workplace Communications with Computers or CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications?
   
4. If you take the DSST Principle of Finance will Excelsior still count it as upper level. I thought I read they would count the UEXCEL course upper level but not the DSST.
   
5. International Business - I wasn't sure how to complete this course. Right now, I've plugged in the Excelsior online course BUS 435 International Business. Is there a better way to do that that's cheaper that Excelsior would accept?
   
6. Any other suggestions about the Business Core or the rest of the degree map?
   

Thanks for any help!

Hello,  I may be able to help. I specialize in 365 Degree coaching. I requested access to your document.

The thing about a free online community is that it really gives someone the ability to try it before they buy it.  I'm curious why someone with only 1 post should be given any money when hundreds of well-respected and knowledgeable members here will do it for free?

I guess if you specifically don't want to help a "paying" member here who isn't selling anything and who:

- contacted and talked to several colleges including Excelsior
- dug in, scoured all the resources on Excelsior.edu, CLEP, DSST, AP, Uexcel and other sites available
- researched and developed our specific degree map and simply shared it on google docs here
--- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CJEW...sp=sharing
- reviewed the course catalogs & policies at Excelsior multiple times before he posted in a forum specifically for Excelsior
- spent a couple of thousand on:
--- SpeedyPrep subscription for more than a year,
--- 16 CLEPS exam fees
--- 16 testing center fees
--- nearly that many REA study guides and online practice tests
--- parking and garage fees
- and who helped his son pass 16 CLEP exams when he hasn't even finished his sophomore year in high school

...then, why answer?

I think you're misunderstanding my reply.  My reply was to the poster peatri1 who was soliciting YOU to pay HIM/HER money for advice that we ALL share and give here freely.   You, as the parent, have access to the entire database of archives (which you DON'T have to pay for) and the altruistic members here who help everyone every day- simply by asking.  No one here is getting paid for giving advice, and any money you pay to instantcert isn't going to any of us- so when someone new comes in here and starts SELLING ADVICE on his first post? Yeah, that's spam.  He needs to go.

Gotcha, I see that now.

Thanks for clarifying and my apology for getting confused by that.