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Help with ECE $$$ - Danielp248 - 07-09-2008
Until now I've been merrily testing my way to degreedom, paying around $100 per test. Now I need the UL credits that the ECE provides and WOW! $235 per test!! + $60 for practice questions? Does anyone have any tips/tricks how to help pay for these tests? Is there any way I can get these tests cheaper? Does FAFSA cover these tests?
EDIT:Shoulda posted this in the Big 3 Forum.... Mods?
Help with ECE $$$ - cederic824 - 07-09-2008
You could join the army. Exams are free for military personel.
https://www.excelsior.edu/Excelsior_College/Excelsior_College_Examinations/Free_Exams_for_Military_Personnel
Help with ECE $$$ - bmills072200 - 07-09-2008
Danielp248 Wrote:Until now I've been merrily testing my way to degreedom, paying around $100 per test. Now I need the UL credits that the ECE provides and WOW! $235 per test!! + $60 for practice questions? Does anyone have any tips/tricks how to help pay for these tests? Is there any way I can get these tests cheaper? Does FAFSA cover these tests?
EDIT:Shoulda posted this in the Big 3 Forum.... Mods?
Not much you can do that I am aware of...check and see if any of the DSST exams will count towards your UL credits...
Help with ECE $$$ - cookderosa - 07-09-2008
Danielp248 Wrote:Until now I've been merrily testing my way to degreedom, paying around $100 per test. Now I need the UL credits that the ECE provides and WOW! $235 per test!! + $60 for practice questions? Does anyone have any tips/tricks how to help pay for these tests? Is there any way I can get these tests cheaper? Does FAFSA cover these tests?>>
EDIT:Shoulda posted this in the Big 3 Forum.... Mods?
See, this is why I say TESC is cheaper. You can't only think about the enrollment fee as being a little more, because you are stuck taking classes or EC exams now where at TESC you could be using CLEP/DSST exams.
I don't know what to tell you. Your still coming in at $98 per credit with no book fees- you'd be hard pressed to find a better cost even at a community college. Cost-wise, your still paying much less than your state university, and you have saved a lot of time. In a pinch, you could check out TESC.
Help with ECE $$$ - Danielp248 - 07-09-2008
Quote:See, this is why I say TESC is cheaper. You can't only think about the enrollment fee as being a little more, because you are stuck taking classes or EC exams now where at TESC you could be using CLEP/DSST exams.
I don't know what to tell you. Your still coming in at $98 per credit with no book fees- you'd be hard pressed to find a better cost even at a community college. Cost-wise, your still paying much less than your state university, and you have saved a lot of time. In a pinch, you could check out TESC.
Yeh, I've registered with TESC but they wouldn't accept my 60 credits from an AARTS accredited institution. It would have cost me a heck of a lot more to prove those credit using PLA!!
Help with ECE $$$ - cookderosa - 07-09-2008
Danielp248 Wrote:Yeh, I've registered with TESC but they wouldn't accept my 60 credits from an AARTS accredited institution. It would have cost me a heck of a lot more to prove those credit using PLA!!>>
Daniel,
I had similar trouble. My associates degree is NA, and I could have spent an arm and a leg doing PLAs. It would have been a fortune, and I still wouldn't have gotten to use them all anyway. I ended up starting from 0 and using CLEP/DSST for 60 credits because it was cheaper in the long run just to start from scratch. There are just so many variables to consider.
Help with ECE $$$ - bat21 - 07-09-2008
Even if you join the Reserves or Guard, the DSSTS/CLEPS/ECES are still FREE, and you even get enrolled into the Community College of the Air Force and college credit for free from your military training which equals about 30 or so college units.
Other than that you are going to have to pay the piper, or try TESC, which I may still do.
I am still waiting on them to give me my Evaluation. EC finished mine and I am only a couple classes away from graduation, I may even be degree complete with TESC, since I have a boatload of 200 and 300 credit right now,
Help with ECE $$$ - bmills072200 - 07-10-2008
bat21 Wrote:Even if you join the Reserves or Guard, the DSSTS/CLEPS/ECES are still FREE, and you even get enrolled into the Community College of the Air Force and college credit for free from your military training which equals about 30 or so college units.
Of course there are those pesky bullets and bombs to worry about...
Help with ECE $$$ - bat21 - 07-10-2008
Everyone should enjoy the IEDS and VBIEDS , it really makes for a wonderful summer vacation!
Maybe that is why the Military gets to take free DSST?CLEPS?ECEs
Help with ECE $$$ - Danielp248 - 07-10-2008
Quote:Quote:Even if you join the Reserves or Guard, the DSSTS/CLEPS/ECES are still FREE, and you even get enrolled into the Community College of the Air Force and college credit for free from your military training which equals about 30 or so college units.
Of course there are those pesky bullets and bombs to worry about...
Yeh.. for some reason I'm having a hard time with that equation.... Trying to save some money = have an explodey vacation in some foreign country.
Thats not to say that there aren't other sides to that equation (ie: trying to save money + want to help protect the freedoms that we hold near and dear + want to go to college at all + etc.. = explodey vacation) but I think you all would agree that if the only reason I would go to the military is to save some money on the ECE exams........ well you understand.
BTW: Just because I don't have the balls...err.. "opportunity" to go to the military doesn't mean I don't appreciate what you all do for us. I have two very simple, but powerful if truly intended, words for anyone who is part of our armed forces, Thank You.