Question about transfer credits to TESC

[Mian]

but if I were you I would e-mail the registrar or someone in the English Department to get it in writing which courses count towards upper level (to be extra safe).

TESC will not answer these types of questions unless you pay the thousands of $$ enrollment. I don't want to pay that without having significant number of credits done already because if I paid it now, there's no way I'd be able to finish everything in a year and would have to pay again. It's too much. I'm trying to figure it out on my own. As for CLEPs and DSSTs, I'm pretty much done with those except the American Literature CLEP for my survey of literature that I need in the area of study. I'm still studying for that. I have my general education credits done and have transferred in all the CC credits I can for that. TESC requires 15 area of study credits be UL, so CC credits and CLEPs/DSSTs are useless to me for that. I got Technical Writing done (DSST) but it didn't go in as upper level even though some schools offer it as that. Maybe I just can't do this degree afterall. I don't know.