Seeking guidance **Moved thread from Big 3***

[dfrecore]

Everyone has been awesome, it takes time to help with degree planning and knowing shortcuts. This forum has been a tremendous help so far. I wouldn't mind trying to work some of the COSC stuff out myself, do I just look up thier testable items and try to find a degree plan to plug and play? Or is thier more of a science to it that I am not seeing ?

I think the main thing is figuring out which course count for what. Until you start to know them well, it's hard to know that Intro to Computers will come into TESU in the "Understanding the Physical and Natural World" area, but that it definitely will not count as a science at COSC, for instance. It's just a little tricky. But once you figure out what counts where at a particular school, then you can figure more and more things out at that school.

And, remembering that what applies at one school may not apply at the next. So when you figure out one, moving to the next, you're practically starting from scratch.

Oh yeah, and unless you have a ginormous spreadsheet like I do (almost 1000 lines) where it lists every course for most sources on this forum, and the course equivalency at TESU, and whether it's ACE or NCCRS recommended, and the number of credits, and where it applies, and notes...well, it's hard to know what all the options are for fulfilling a requirement.

You would need a totally separate spreadsheet for COSC, and a different one from EC, and then understanding their equivalencies, and keeping track of the course numbers...it's a lot of work. Which is why I only know 1 school well (and I suspect this may be the case for most of the people on here).