I need any associate's for work

[oldguy4associate]

Hello, I'm in the military and I'm a little bit older so an associate's will really help my ability to promote and get my career goals moving faster. I can take CLEP exams for free and would like to pursue that avenue as much as possible. The ultimate goal is a bachelor's a few years down the road, but I just want to focus on an associates right now. 

Your Location: Maryland
Your Age: 30's
What kind of degree do you want?: Any associate's
Current Regional Accredited Credits: These are community college classes/credits from 15 + years ago. 
Intro to Psychology 3
Physical Science 3
Principles of Geography 3
English Comp 101 3
Music Appreciation 3


Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits:
6 credits from my military training/JST
I had an additional 6 credits from another course, but it recently and bizarrely downgraded to awarding zero credits. I just opened an inquiry with JST about it.



Happy to add any more information. Thank you very much!

[rachel83az]

Good news! You should be able to get the FREE Pierpont BOG AAS degree pretty quickly: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Pierpont_C%26TC

You have enough CC credits already, just fill out the rest of the requirements with Sophia and you're good to go.

Requirements:

• 3 credits communications: filled with English Comp
  
• 3 credits social science: filled with Intro to Psych
  
• 6 credits math/science: Half filled with physical science. Take College Algebra @ Sophia for future Bachelor's degree. 
  
• 3 credits Computer Literacu: Take Intro to IT with Sophia
  
• 60 (or more) total credits: Anything you want from Sophia. Suggested to take courses towards a future Bachelor's degree at UMPI or TESU, but you can also just take whatever's fastest/easiest for you. 
  

[oldguy4associate]

Good news! You should be able to get the FREE Pierpont BOG AAS degree pretty quickly: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Pierpont_C%26TC

You have enough CC credits already, just fill out the rest of the requirements with Sophia and you're good to go.

Requirements:

• 3 credits communications: filled with English Comp
  
• 3 credits social science: filled with Intro to Psych
  
• 6 credits math/science: Half filled with physical science. Take College Algebra @ Sophia for future Bachelor's degree. 
  
• 3 credits Computer Literacu: Take Intro to IT with Sophia
  
• 60 (or more) total credits: Anything you want from Sophia. Suggested to take courses towards a future Bachelor's degree at UMPI or TESU, but you can also just take whatever's fastest/easiest for you. 
  

Thank you Rachel. If I'm reading the link correctly, I still need 3 additional RA credits to fulfill residency?

[rachel83az]

No, Pierpont only requires 3 graded RA credits right now. Everything else can come from Sophia or other ACE sources. This includes your JST/military credits.

[dfrecore]

No, Pierpont only requires 3 graded RA credits right now. Everything else can come from Sophia or other ACE sources. This includes your JST/military credits.

You should list your JST credits as well, as they may count towards something.  Wondering how something can be downgraded, since it's based on when you complete a course, not what happens later.  I would definitely press that issue.

I think that between CLEP and Sophia, you can finish credits needed in a month or two.

[oldguy4associate]

No, Pierpont only requires 3 graded RA credits right now. Everything else can come from Sophia or other ACE sources. This includes your JST/military credits.

You should list your JST credits as well, as they may count towards something.  Wondering how something can be downgraded, since it's based on when you complete a course, not what happens later.  I would definitely press that issue.

I think that between CLEP and Sophia, you can finish credits needed in a month or two.

Hello dfrecore. I have JST's for aviation machinist mate A school and P8 powerplant 3 each. My basic training credits were downgraded to "not evaluated at this location". They were listed in the summary section in March, and I just looked again the other day and saw they were no longer valid. That's a loss of 6 credits. I entered the course code into the ACE website and it's listed. I think it's pretty weird and I'm not happy about it.

I also have FEMA courses that I paid FCC to convert into 3 credits. I can easily get another 2 credits from required courses but from browsing the forum, they look to be worthless.