I'm the guy that posted February of last year that my wife and I found out we were going to have a baby and I wanted to try to complete my degree before the birth. You all had some extremely helpful recommendations for my degree plan and I made some good progress. In March of last year, I got promoted at my job and had to focus more on that (a good problem to have) without finishing. We had a beautiful girl in October and I spent some time just being a dad.
I've been plodding along again since January and finally set up a call with a TESU adviser to check that my plan would still work. Coming late to the party here, but I had planned on taking a lot of TECEPs which no longer will fulfill my residency requirement. Instead I get to give TESU $2,500. In the attachment, red is still remaining (advising has approved everything remaining). Does anyone know of easier alternatives I ought to sub in for any of these TECEPs?
tl;dr Since I'm no longer required to take a bunch of TECEPs, is there something better/easier I should drop them in favor of? Plan attached, red courses are left to do.
I'm the guy that posted February of last year that my wife and I found out we were going to have a baby and I wanted to try to complete my degree before the birth. You all had some extremely helpful recommendations for my degree plan and I made some good progress. In March of last year, I got promoted at my job and had to focus more on that (a good problem to have) without finishing. We had a beautiful girl in October and I spent some time just being a dad.
I've been plodding along again since January and finally set up a call with a TESU adviser to check that my plan would still work. Coming late to the party here, but I had planned on taking a lot of TECEPs which no longer will fulfill my residency requirement. Instead I get to give TESU $2,500. In the attachment, red is still remaining (advising has approved everything remaining). Does anyone know of easier alternatives I ought to sub in for any of these TECEPs?
tl;dr Since I'm no longer required to take a bunch of TECEPs, is there something better/easier I should drop them in favor of? Plan attached, red courses are left to do.
Thank you!
Matt
You could switch over to Study.com for the TECEPS. That would change your 2500 residency waiver fee to 1800 huge savings right there. I don't think Penn Foster Strategic Management works anymore you will need to take the TECEP (If they will somehow still let you in) or you need to take the 1500 course. I'm sure study.com can fulfill a lot of the stuff you have in RED. Study.com is $200 per month and you get 2 tests with that so 6 credits. You can add on extra exams for $70 and that actually drives the cost down if you have the time to get more done.
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Did you already transfer the PF Strategic Management course into the degree? If not, then you can't use it there. It would go down into an elective.
Yes, you can replace all of the TECEPs with other courses/exams. I would sign up for Study.com, and then your capstone course goes down to $1089 instead of $1497, the cornerstone course is waived, and your residency waiver is $1800 instead of $2500.
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Quick clarification I ought to have made: the three Penn & Foster courses are in progress and I've been approved to receive credit for each (including Strategic Management as my capstone) because I'd cleared the courses with advising before they stopped giving credit.
thornoak Wrote:Quick clarification I ought to have made: the three Penn & Foster courses are in progress and I've been approved to receive credit for each (including Strategic Management as my capstone) because I'd cleared the courses with advising before they stopped giving credit.
I would double-check on that, as they stopped letting people bring that in a LONG time ago.
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06-29-2017, 12:26 PM (This post was last modified: 06-29-2017, 12:56 PM by thornoak.)
dfrecore Wrote:I would double-check on that, as they stopped letting people bring that in a LONG time ago.
I was able to confirm it with certainty, thankfully. It was part of long email exchange last month with advising that culminated with an appeal to the dean, who heard me out and approved the course. The exception is marked in my transcript. It hinged on the fact that I'd gotten approval by email in early 2016, so unfortunately this doesn't create a precedent for other students who want to use the course.
I'm not familiar with using Study.com, so I'll begin researching it. Thank you Synicaal and dfrecore!
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