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Easiest Path for BS/BA - Advice Appreciated - SuZQ2 - 10-08-2011
Hello All!
I'd greatly appreciate some help and advice regarding which of the "Big Three" schools would provide me with the easiest path to a BA or BS degree. I recieved my AA degree in 1991 from USNY - Regents College (now Excelsior) by applying all the credits I accumulated over an on/off 10 year period from a local community college.
I did some research this past year, discovered your site, and decided to attempt with the help of a variety of study aids - IC, textbooks, REA guides, Peterson's, the great test help here on the forum, etc. to CLEP one test just to see if I could do it. I managed to survive and pass Introductory Psychology and just recently passed Human Growth and Development with thoughts of going for the full 9 lower level Psych. credits by taking Introduction to Educational Psych. as well.
I'm most familiar with the Excelsior set-up for a BSLS and its required 2 depths of concentration - but it seemed like quite a monumental undertaking to accumulate the credits I'd need for my degree (don't even mention the word M-A-T-H....:ack
. If I'm missing an easier way I really like to know. Most of my credits are reeeeeeally old - I don't know if some of them would even be accepted at this point. My background is strictly Liberal Arts - no business, etc. so I don't know what subjects I would even consider attempting....Here's a list of my credits - As I've said, any advice/guidance would be GREATLY appreciated!
1980s- 1991
Humanities
East West Humanities
Western Humanities
Elementary Spanish 1 & 2
Intermediate Spanish 1 & 2
Ethics
CLEP English Comp with Essay (from ancient times - at the time, I was in the last group at Regents College that was allowed to use this course for Essay credit)
Social Sciences
Western Civilizations 1 & 2
American Government
Cultural Anthropology
US History Part 1
Natural Science/Math
Elementary Algebra
Intermediate Algebra
Earth Science
Biology
Electives
Orientation to Education
Introduction to Computers (again, ancient!)
Typing (ancient - class given on an ACTUAL TYPEWRITER!!)
2011
CLEP
Introductory Psychology 75
Human Growth and Development 69
Easiest Path for BS/BA - Advice Appreciated - NAP - 10-08-2011
Hi!
Your old credits should be accepted. Here is the policy at EC:
Time Limit on transfer credits - excelsior.edu
Don't worry; it looks like you are done with math, if you want to be.
If you like the subjects, consider psychology and history for depths. They have exam options.
Also be aware that some policies have changed. The biggest changes are Freshman English (6 credits), Info Lit, and Capstone course.
Also, check out the other 2 schools, which have different pros and cons.