Macroeconomics and Microeconomics

[joel66]

Over the past few days, I have been stuck trying to decide what direction to go with my classes. I qualify for financial aid, and I'm taking courses at the local community college and having transcripts sent to Excelsior, in addition to some clep exams.

I am stuck deciding which route to take for the next two semesters.

Scenario one:
Summer 2008
Take 4 unit Statistics course. It's online and only show up to school to take 3 exams.

Fall 2008
Take two hybrid courses - Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. In these courses, I would go to Macroeconomics on Monday's for 1h 20min and rest online. For Microeconomics, I would go on Wed's for 1hr 20min and rest online.
I would also take 4 unit Financial Accounting every Saturday.

The drawback, the traffic is a nightmare and don't like the idea of spending a total of 1 1/2 hours of drive time for each class. Not bad for Saturday's.

Scenario two:
The economics instructor will be offering two entirely online Macroeconomics and Microeconomics. The drawback... both are only 6 weeks long. He doesn't have the syllabus completed for summer session, but he provided me with copies for the spring hybrid to give me an idea on it looks like.

If I take both economic courses during the summer, I can take Statistics on Monday's for 1 hour, and Accounting on Saturdays. The reason why I'm thinking of Monday's statistics, because my son is taking the same instructor at the local university, and has all the study guides and said getting an A is really easy with this guy. The instructor is using the same format for the local community college. That would mean, I can take both of those classes, and spent rest of time studying and taking the DSST Finance test.

I uploaded the two syllabuses, for those who have taken economics to see if it's possible to take both of those courses in six weeks. I also uploaded an example doc that I assume the topics he would follow for six weeks.

err, decisions decisions. My registration appt online is 8pm pacific time tonight.

Update: I forgot to include the ISBN's on the economic books
Principles of Microeconomics, 4th Edition
ISBN-10: 0324319169

Principles of Macroeconomics, 4th Edition
ISBN-10: 0324236956

[studyhard]

Your school won't let you test out of micro and macro using CLEP?

[joel66]

The school does allow clep, but it would cost 90 dollars to take the test and about 20 to 30 dollars for the study guides. This comes out to approx 220 to 240 dollars. If I take the course at the local school and have over 9 units taken, that comes out to being 3/4 full-time based on financial aid. They will pay for my tuition, books, and other fees.

I might take the 4 unit statistics course in summer, and both economic courses and financial accounting in the fall. If I don't get as much in financial aid, then I might consider cleping those exams. I have to register tonight for both summer and fall semester.