Best option for FAST credits that will transfer into UPENN LPS or Harvard Extention

[Yanji]

Penn LPS is probably one of the best mature student oriented programs out there; I know someone who did the program and they say great things about it. They accept people from CCs all the time, so courses from a 4-year state school like TESC should be just fine. Attempting to rush through 2 years of self-paced courses in 6 months and getting a good GPA at the same time (especially to overcome your previous academic experiences) seems like an extremely risky proposition to me. However, if you want to give it a try (what's the worst than can happen, anyway?) the self-paced courses offered through Colorado State - Pueblo, BYU, Idaho, LSU and Athabasca (Canadian but accredited by the same regional accreditor as Penn) seem to be popular, affordable options around here. I only have experience with self-paced courses through Athabasca, but even "easy" courses would probably take at least a week or two of hardcore effort to finish, and the harder stuff will probably fry your brain if you try to finish 1-2 a month continuously. Most of Athabasca's courses are able to be "challenged" where you get full credit complete with letter grade for completing assignments/exams, but they are closer to completing a course's material without any sort of instruction/academic resources than exam credit. They are also transcripted as "courses taken via challenge", which may be an issue.

Regarding CCs, many states have open admissions policies, so while you still would need to disclose and submit your academic history to them when you apply, they would not deny you admission unless you were on academic discipline or had unpaid financial obligations to another institution.