[New][Help needed] Need some insight/help planning BACS/BSCS

[TalentlessOlympian]

I'm no help with Pell grants, or whether or not to pursue a CS degree, but I can help with some degree planning.

BUT, what would be best right now, is for you to post your completed courses here. It's darn near impossible to help you figure out what to do until we know what you've done. List by school, including whether it's a CC or 4-yr college, semester or quarter system, and then the course code and name, credits, and grade if lower than a C.

If you took anything computer-related, you will want to put the year as well, since it will matter. Most everything else will not.

Here is some info on programs you might be interested in (we can help you find the Gen Ed courses you might need, along with any other courses you could cheaply and easily complete):

TESU: BA in Computer Science - Thomas Edison State University: Computer Science - minimum cost for this degree is $4198 for the application, the 1cr cornerstone course, the 3cr capstone course, residency waiver fee, and graduation fee. This is not counting all of the other courses you would need to complete, but MANY of those are probably already done, or can be gotten through testing or inexpensive online courses.

WGU BS in Software Development - Bachelor Degree in Software Development | Online IT Degree - competency-based degree, meaning you pay for time rather than per class. It's $2890 for a 6-month term, you could probably do all of your courses in that time-period. Of course, that's assuming you've completed the Gen Ed requirements, which can be done in a variety of ways. We can help with that.

Hodges University also has a BS in SW Dev - Software Development - Bachelor's Degree | Hodges University - and it's also a competency-based program (UPOWER) for $2750/6-mo term. They accept CLEP & DSST exams, and are pretty lenient on their general education courses, so that may work as well.

Anyway, post everything, and check out the programs to see if any of them interest you, and we can go from there.

First of all, thank you everyone who has left a response and information for me to look into. I didn't think that the community would reply so swiftly to my thread!

Here is a list of course names I've taken and passed. In total I only have 43 credits.

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ENC0001   ENC0025   FUNDS OF WRITING
REA0002   REA0017   COL PREP READING II
SLS1101   SLS1101   STUDENT SUCCESS
MAT1033   MAT1033   INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA
DEP2004   DEP2004   HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
ENC1101   ENC1101   ENGLISH COMP I
MAC1105   MAC1105   COLLEGE ALGEBRA
PHY1020   PHY1020   PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIC
AMH2010   AMH2010   AMER HIST:DISC-RECON
ENC1102   ENC1102   ENGLISH COMP II
MAC1114   MAC1114   PLANE TRIGONOMETRY
MAC1140   MAC1140   PRECALCULUS ALGEBRA
AMH2020   AMH2020   AMER HIST:RECON-PRES
MAC1114   MAC1114   PLANE TRIGONOMETRY
PHI1010   PHI1010   INTRO PHILOSOPHY
ECO2013   ECO2013   PRIN ECONOMICS MACRO
ENC1102   ENC1102   ENGLISH COMP II
BSC2010   BSC2010   GENERAL BIOLOGY I
CGS1060   CGS1060   COLLEGE COMPUTING(tested out of)
PHI2630   PHI2630   INTRO TO ETHICS
BSC2010L  BSC2010L  GEN BIOLOGY I LAB
CHM1045L  CHM1045L  GEN CHEM I LAB

I have been out of school for almost 3 years now and I am desperately seeking the best means of getting a degree in CS.
I know I will have to retake calc since I know I had flunked out of it due to not making it to class after my car accident. (Part of life's random punches to the gut).
And I'm sure you all might stumble across the question of what any of these courses really have to do with Aerospace Engineering. And to that I say, Welcome to the institute of Indian River where their curriculum seriously makes zero sense.
The idea was to get my AA and transfer out, but like I said before, life happens and I haven't attended school in nearly 3 years.
I'm hoping to CLEP/DSST and whatever else there is to get my BSCS or BACS asap!
I'm still not sure what some of the terms here are.
Such as:

Code:

UL
PLA
UPower
Capstone
Cornerstone

Do these institutions allow the use of PELL Grants or would I need to take out a student loan?
I have no issue taking out a loan for $10,000 if it means I get a BS or BA degree by next year. The average salary for entry level would be enough to start chipping away the amount owed.

Also, what are your guys' thoughts on higher education in computer science? i.e. a master's in cs?

Again, thank you guys so much for everything. I greatly appreciate the information here and I hope to understand more about how I enroll for these classes I need and how I can test out of them after enrolling(?)

?- if that's how you have to do it.