cinderly Wrote:I've also had good luck in overcoming the no-degree stigma by switching my resume to a portfolio format. Pretty colors & evidence of past work impress potential employers. As a business owner, you likely have a LOT of past work that might serve for a stunning portfolio.

Good luck to you. Your plan is very ambitious, but I think you can do it if you're averaging so many credits per week already.

cinderly Wrote:Hi, Barbara!

I think you can better "stack" these exams to capture previous study. Have you seen the Exam Strategies page at Testing out of College or IC's Similar Tests thread?
No, I did not see those threads, I tried to do a key word search, but those didn't come up. THANKS!
I'd actually recommend taking care of a few oddball items first.

You mention Information Analysis (ECE). Do you mean Information Literacy? If so, it's an easy but expensive Excelsior course. Get it out of the way as soon as you can.
I did mean Information Literacy!

If your budget will support the transcription fee, consider knocking out some elective credits via FEMA. Courses are free and can be completed quickly, but transcribing them costs $60 per credit hour.

I thought about that, but I am trying to keep my father in law out of the pic as much as possible, and that would not work for the budget. I wish I could.

With this option, you can easily complete 12 credits in the first week of your program (and earn the FEMA Professional Development Series certificate) while studying for the first block of your Psychology exams.

I'd then reorder your exams (where possible) to maximize your study:

[INDENT]Jan 2 --CLEP: Educational Psychology, Human Growth & Development, Lifespan Developmental psychology [was Jan 9]. Make sure HG&D and Lifespan Development don't duplicate credit!
I will check on that, I didn't run that one by my advisor. If not, maybe I could do the Government with the History.
Jan 9 -- ECE : Abnormal Psych & Research Methods in Psych [was Jan 29]

Jan 16 -- ECE: Gerontology & Adulthood & Aging [was Feb 5]

Jan 22 -- HR Management & World Populations [stays the same due to scheduling issues]

Jan 29 -- Clep History 1 & 2, DSST Civil War [was Jan 2/Mar 4]

Feb 5 -- DSST Organizational Behavior, DSST Counseling, Social Sciences & History [was Feb 19, 26, Jan 2]

Feb 12 -- ECE Ethics & DSST Ethics [was Feb 12]

Feb 19 -- DSST Intro to Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice DSST, DSST Technical Writing [was Feb 19, Jan 16]

Feb 26 -- CLEP College Algebra [was Jan 16]

Mar 2 -- DSST Astronomy & Race to Save the Planet (Jan 2 & Feb 26)[/INDENT]
(I've only taken 2 of the exams you list, so take my advice with a grain of salt.) Another option would be to hurry through the 60 credits you need for an associate's, then continue working on the bachelor's at a less frantic pace.

I've also had good luck in overcoming the no-degree stigma by switching my resume to a portfolio format. Pretty colors & evidence of past work impress potential employers. As a business owner, you likely have a LOT of past work that might serve for a stunning portfolio.

My problem has been that I have been in executive level positions and my salary has been quite good. With the advent of technology, and Applicant Tracking Systems, when you submit your resume on-line, most have screening questions that knock you out of contention before they ever see your resume. I am actually an executive search consultant in Healthcare and I went to making quite a good living to eeking by.

Good luck to you. Your plan is very ambitious, but I think you can do it if you're averaging so many credits per week already.

jec959 Wrote:If you need college algebra dsst algebra doesn't count but clep college algebra does. I can't comment on most of the rest of the groupings but I found dsst organizational behavior very doable as well as ethics in america. If you just need a math some of the others on this forum have taken the 6 credit lower level math and that would count for your other lower level course. American government was a very doable exam as well.