I should be done with my degree already but alas, procrastination set in yet again. I'm about to leave the military (National Guard) so I need to hurry up and pass as many CLEP exams/tests as I can before I lose my status as an active military member. I'm in northern VA so there's a lot of CLEP centers nearby including Fort Belvoir. Anyway, I have a few more questions. I'm planning to knock the rest of courses out starting in January and hopefully attain my degree in the summer. I've read through the forum and this is what I've found out about TESU. Please let me know if I'm mistaken.
- I read it takes about three months to complete the capstone. Can I still go through the capstone and cornerstone at the same time? I believe I'm supposed to request the capstone after I'm a bit over 100 credit hours.
- CLEP will be the cheapest way to complete the remaining courses as I can do them for free. Some say they were able to complete CLEP exams in about a week or so. Is this accurate/feasible? If not I may just pay SDC the $199 a month as I may be able to go through 4-5 courses a month by paying for the exam/test fees.
- I completed The Institutes Ethics course so that gives me two credit hours towards the Ethics Leadership requirement. TESU will grant me a waiver and hopefully all my other transferred credits through prior college education and military training will satisfy the remaining one credit.
- I wait until I'm sure I'm ready to knock out the cornerstone and capstone requirement then I register as a student.
- For the Finance concentration, only 12 of the 18 credit hours must be in upper level courses. Somehow I figure out what UL courses will satisfy the six credit hours. Anyone know a good way to do this? Why is the Finance courses grouped in Group 1 and Group 2 categories?
- Almost forgot. I have to pay the capstone fee and residency waiver fee. This will kinda suck but hopefully I'm hired by a company I just interviewed with (Booz Allen) and they pay it through their FlexEd benefit program.
I also have a spreadsheet that I wanted to include but I left it at work in my haste to leave the building. I'll post it tomorrow. Thanks in advance for answering questions previously answered ad nauseum.
- I read it takes about three months to complete the capstone. Can I still go through the capstone and cornerstone at the same time? I believe I'm supposed to request the capstone after I'm a bit over 100 credit hours.
- CLEP will be the cheapest way to complete the remaining courses as I can do them for free. Some say they were able to complete CLEP exams in about a week or so. Is this accurate/feasible? If not I may just pay SDC the $199 a month as I may be able to go through 4-5 courses a month by paying for the exam/test fees.
- I completed The Institutes Ethics course so that gives me two credit hours towards the Ethics Leadership requirement. TESU will grant me a waiver and hopefully all my other transferred credits through prior college education and military training will satisfy the remaining one credit.
- I wait until I'm sure I'm ready to knock out the cornerstone and capstone requirement then I register as a student.
- For the Finance concentration, only 12 of the 18 credit hours must be in upper level courses. Somehow I figure out what UL courses will satisfy the six credit hours. Anyone know a good way to do this? Why is the Finance courses grouped in Group 1 and Group 2 categories?
- Almost forgot. I have to pay the capstone fee and residency waiver fee. This will kinda suck but hopefully I'm hired by a company I just interviewed with (Booz Allen) and they pay it through their FlexEd benefit program.
I also have a spreadsheet that I wanted to include but I left it at work in my haste to leave the building. I'll post it tomorrow. Thanks in advance for answering questions previously answered ad nauseum.
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