Newbie Here looking to focus on TESOL in the future

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Thank you for the additional threads!

One more question for now, am I understanding correctly that I can enroll into TESU and take one TECEP per year to keep myself enrolled for the entire year with the benefit being that my course catalog will be locked in as 2016 rules as long as I stay enrolled year after year? I have been reading about all of the changes made by schools each year and this is confusing enough for a beginner. I don't want to even think about doing courses that will eventually not be counted towards my degree especially on my budget and then having to change my plan of action. I was very bummed to see that I will no longer receive 12 credits for the Spanish CLEP as that is one I know I could get a 63 on right now with minimal study. When I was telling my wife about this forum and the CLEPs, I was all excited about knocking out almost an entire semester with just one test! Oh well...all the more reason to lock in a course catalog right?

Yes, you can lock in the catalog, but that just means that you will lock in the school's requirements. It does not mean that they will not change other things. For instance, if you took the the English Lit CLEP that was downgraded by ACE to 3cr, and then at some point TESU decided that they would still count it for 6cr, then later decided that they would count it as 3cr - and you'd applied but hadn't sent in your CLEP scores yet - who in the world knows what they would do?!? That's because what they count for a course equivalency isn't in the catalog - you aren't locking that part in.

But, if you really want to lock in the catalog, then you have until June 30 to do so - the new catalog normally goes into effect on July 1.

The bad news is that things change - the good news is that things change! When I was first starting this process in 2011, SL was small and didn't have the same pricing structure, study.com didn't have any ACE-approved courses, and the following methods of getting ACE-approved courses did not exist: TEEX, Kaplan, Saylor, JumpCourse, Propero/Pearson, Ed4Credit & Sophia. And, CSU-Global did not have a huge list of UL CBE's available for $250 each. So, just because things change does not mean it's for the worse. I would say that while the requirements for a lot of degrees have gotten harder through TESU, and the pricing has changed, the ability to find courses has improved exponentially.