Quick shoutout to DegreeForum and all of the helpful users...

[allvia]

@gregoryjosef, if you don't have an associates already, you can quickly email Jessica and have them add the program to your list as an additional/second program.  You don't have to do anything and it should be awarded the same time as the BABA.  UMPI AALS is just an AA Liberal Studies, get it free on route to the Bachelors: https://www.umpi.edu/academics/liberal-studies/

What value added would there be to adding a generic associate degree, the OP already completed what mattered (the bachelor)? None that I can see.  Certainly no purpose for it on a resume/CV.

[acethroughcollege]

Congratulations!

[bjcheung77]

What value added would there be to adding a generic associate degree, the OP already completed what mattered (the bachelor)? None that I can see.  Certainly no purpose for it on a resume/CV.

Exactly.  That's so true, there really isn't one reason to add an associates when you have a Bachelors of your liking and that bachelor degree is the main goal.  There's no need to add an Associates, especially since it's a generic degree.  I wouldn't add it to my resume at all either.  There practically is no added ROI/Value in that additional undergraduate degree... But I would still recommend it!  You get it free on route to the Bachelors and more...

On the board, you have several people who have gone for the Pierpont BOG AAS after they finished their Bachelors, Masters even... and they had to pay transcripts to be sent, even though it wasn't free, they found a reason to have it.  Everyone has their reason for doing things, it might be for ego, novelty item, for show/vanity, or even as an item on the wall as if they were kids or teens who like to put all their awards/certificates.  It can be used for starting a chat, if someone comes by and asks, why do you have two degrees from UMPI?  

In the case of others, who have Associates degrees that ladder up to their Bachelors, they had to pay hundreds if not a thousand, those were used to ladder into the Bachelors degree.  With this freebie, it's in Liberal Studies, the Bachelors is in Business.  If someone was asking me why I got the AALS, I would answer them honestly, the courses in the AA are for laddering into Liberal Arts/Sciences and hold 'some' prerequisites if I ever needed to.  The business degree is just that, for Business as my main major.

Last but not least, OP has the option to add the AALS, others do as well but chose to or not... For me it's like asking for an upgrade and me having the coupon for the upgrade.  Example, you buy a burger, you have the combo coupon for free upgrade, all I have to do is ask for it.  Why wouldn't I want that upgrade?   The same as going on a vacation, I upgrade to a better room free without using any points all the time just by asking or showing membership... Deal or no deal is up to OP to decide.

[allvia]

What value added would there be to adding a generic associate degree, the OP already completed what mattered (the bachelor)? None that I can see.  Certainly no purpose for it on a resume/CV.

Exactly.  That's so true, there really isn't one reason to add an associates when you have a Bachelors of your liking and that bachelor degree is the main goal.  There's no need to add an Associates, especially since it's a generic degree.  I wouldn't add it to my resume at all either.  There practically is no added ROI/Value in that additional undergraduate degree... But I would still recommend it!  You get it free on route to the Bachelors and more...

On the board, you have several people who have gone for the Pierpont BOG AAS after they finished their Bachelors, Masters even... and they had to pay transcripts to be sent, even though it wasn't free, they found a reason to have it.  Everyone has their reason for doing things, it might be for ego, novelty item, for show/vanity, or even as an item on the wall as if they were kids or teens who like to put all their awards/certificates.  It can be used for starting a chat, if someone comes by and asks, why do you have two degrees from UMPI?  

In the case of others, who have Associates degrees that ladder up to their Bachelors, they had to pay hundreds if not a thousand, those were used to ladder into the Bachelors degree.  With this freebie, it's in Liberal Studies, the Bachelors is in Business.  If someone was asking me why I got the AALS, I would answer them honestly, the courses in the AA are for laddering into Liberal Arts/Sciences and hold 'some' prerequisites if I ever needed to.  The business degree is just that, for Business as my main major.

Last but not least, OP has the option to add the AALS, others do as well but chose to or not... For me it's like asking for an upgrade and me having the coupon for the upgrade.  Example, you buy a burger, you have the combo coupon for free upgrade, all I have to do is ask for it.  Why wouldn't I want that upgrade?   The same as going on a vacation, I upgrade to a better room free without using any points all the time just by asking or showing membership... Deal or no deal is up to OP to decide.

As you can see from my signature I do see the value in adding a resume strengthening associate en route to a bachelor. However, using your own analogy example, adding a generic associate (such as the AALS) would be more like asking to have a downgrade added (a lower degree of no value) rather than an upgrade (like many of the value added AOS associates that TESU offers for 'free', such as the ones you and I had added in route to the bachelor).

[mohelena02]

Congratulations on your achievement!!! Agreed everyone on this forum is amazing! Such an invaluable resource. Best of luck to you!

[davewill]

What value added would there be to adding a generic associate degree, the OP already completed what mattered (the bachelor)? None that I can see.  Certainly no purpose for it on a resume/CV.

None really. I could have done one more course and had a associates along with my BACS, but it wasn't worth the time... But if it had been zero effort, I would have.