Newbie with some college credits

[dfrecore]

I agree with cookderosa, your best bet is to spend some time going through the forums first before doing anything else. In my opinion, this forum is worth it's weight in gold. You will learn SO MUCH that you will be much better prepared to apply to the correct school (for you) and the correct degree program (for you) and make good choices the first time through, rather than backtracking and redoing things if you're less informed.

That being said, you could spend weeks reading the forum and get paralysis from analysis if you let yourself, so it might be good to limit yourself to an hour or two per day for a week or so, only covering things you are interested in. For instance, if you're not good at math and don't think you're going to get a degree in math or science or computers, then don't spend a lot of time looking at those posts. Don't read up about the best way to pass the Spanish CLEP if you don't know or want to learn Spanish. Don't worry about which English course is best to take since you've already taken the requirements for all 3 schools.

Keep reading, spend some time looking at degree plans for the things that interest you, spend some time figuring out where your courses will fit into each degree plan (that was my best time spent). I would look at several degrees at each school, do a spreadsheet for each that shows where your current credits will fit (there are several available on this forum), and figure out which exams you can take for the remaining credits needed. That will really help you narrow down which school and degree are best fits for you. And once you figure out one school, it's really easy to extrapolate to other degrees at that school (I feel like an expert in TESC degrees).

It's not as difficult as it sounds, only takes a little time to get good at this stuff. Good luck!