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High school & college?
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Your Location: California


Your Age: 15

What kind of degree do you want?: Bachelor in Liberal Studies

Next year I will be a high school sophomore and I am registered for my first concurrent enrollment classes (Art and First Aid). My career goal is to be an ASL interpreter. This career can be achieved by getting my AA in ASL at my local community college and then joining their interpreter program. However, I could also enter the interpreter program by taking ASL 1-4 (16 units) and 1 other ASL focused class (3 units) at my local community college. I homeschool so I have a bit of freedom in time, curriculum, and classes. I'd love to see if I could accomplish my bachelor degree too, not just my AA. Obviously I'd like a school that would allow my ASL classes to be transferred in. 

Budget: My parents will pay for my bachelor's degree. My local community college classes are free while I'm in high school.

Commitments: I don't have much outside commitment other than my regular high school classes/activities. 

Dedicated time to study: I should be able to spend a lot of time on school work.

Timeline: I'll graduate high school in 3 years. If I could get it done by then, that would be cool, but I'm flexible. 
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#2
If you want just any degree, then your best bet is to go with either TESU or Excelsior - both will accept you after high school graduation; Excelsior does not have an age limit (you just need to be a HS grad), while TESU requires you to be a HS grad and 18.

With either school, they will take all of your DE courses from your CC; here's what you need for GE at TESU, which will make it easy to plan the degrees for now (EU accepts all of these):

English Comp I & II
Oral Communication/Speech
College-level math (can't be considered developmental)
A Diversity course like World Religions, Sociology or Cultural Geography among others
An ethics course
A Civics course like American Government
A SocSci course like Psychology
A History course
A Humanities course (your ASL will count here)
2 add'l SocSci/History/Humanities courses (again, ASL will work here)
2 science/IT courses like Biology, Nutrition, or Intro to Computers

Then you'll need 5 UL courses in the Humanities/SocSci areas, which can be done through Study.com or Coopersmith when you get to that point

Then you'll need 9 courses in the Humanities/SocSci areas, and all but 2 have to be 200-level (it will be more difficult to know what TESU counts as 200-level vs. what your school counts as this)

Then, 30cr of Free Electives like Business, First Aid, etc.

Excelsior is similar, a bit less specific requirements than TESU, but they require more UL credits.

I think that if you go ahead and take what you'd need for TESU in the GE, that you'll be well on your way to completing your bachelor's degree right after graduation. You can plan things out so that you have a logical sequence to what your UL courses are to make them a bit easier; for instance, let's say you take US History I & II your Junior year, then you decide to pay for 2 months at Study.com over the summer, and take HIS 106: The Civil War & Reconstruction (LL), HIS 306: The American Civil War Era (UL), HIS 108: History of the Vietnam War (LL), HIS 308: Causes & Effects of the Vietnam War (UL), and HIS 311: The Holocaust and WWII (UL). Or you take Intro to Sociology and then Intro to Psychology during fall and spring, and then take PSY 104: Social Psychology (LL), PSY 316: Advanced Social Psychology (UL), and PSY 310: Psychology of Personality (UL) over the summer. You can do that with Criminal Justice as well.

If you opt for Excelsior instead, you just need to make sure you take more UL, and courses THEY consider as UL (they won't have the same ones that TESU does), and you'll probably want to add Coopersmith to the mix because they have additional ones available.

Good luck!
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If you're planning to be an independent ASL interpreter, you might want to consider a business degree instead of Liberal Studies. You'll learn skills that can be important later.

If you're going to be working for a company, a Liberal Studies degree should be fine.
In progress:
TESU - BA Computer Science; BSBA CIS; ASNSM Math & CS; ASBA

Completed:
Pierpont - AAS BOG
Sophia (so many), The Institutes (old), Study.com (5 courses)
ASU: Human Origins, Astronomy, Intro Health & Wellness, Western Civilization, Computer Appls & Info Technology, Intro Programming
Strayer: CIS175, CIS111, WRK100, MAT210
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@panda08, Welcome to the board! You're the same age as my nephew, he began the dual enrollment process already and basically, it's a focus on three things. Dual enrollment, AP/CLEP, and additional ACE or NCCRS credits that interest him as well as any challenge exams options the college allows... He is pretty much following his sisters foot steps, the only difference is, she's in IB as well, which he's not keen on doing... (They took part in CLEP/MS for the freebies, the Sophia.org freebie and $149/year)

My recommendation currently is to focus on your dual enrollment first as those provide a GPA for future use if you decide to continue on with a local university. If you are doing well in the classes, take something similar in subject but doesn't duplicate your credits with alternative credit options such as CLEP/MS or Sophia/Saylor. In fact, you should take courses at the local community college that isn't available with alternative credit options mentioned above! Good luck, have fun, don't rush and go at your pace...

Last but not least, create a spreadsheet of your ASL Associates Degree requirements and note down which college that is, CA state has about 17-18 community colleges now that have opportunities to ladder into their own Bachelors without the need to transfer to a university, if you can get alternative credit plus your 3 years of free tuition, that's the 4 years required right there! In addition to what info previous replies have... you want to know which degree you want to end up with (Bachelors) and the institution you want to finish at... again, have a spreadsheet of that Associates and Bachelors degrees linked to your google or one drive, paste that to your reply here and we'll comment on options to completing those courses.
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