Why Charter Oak State College is better than Thomas Edison State College

[KittenMittens]

You highlighted how COSC was cheaper for you. How does that help everyone else? Now, you're admitting every student situation is different, so costs are difficult to breakdown. So, how did you come to the conclusion that COSC would be cheaper for most people?

When you take college courses, you don't get practice exams. You will only get review materials if your instructor is nice and easy. They definitely aren't going to create flashcards for you. TECEPs are like final exams. You either read and understood the material or you didn't. There is no need for some third party to create review material.

There are a few conditions that are established before I claim COSC is cheaper than TESC for the type of person this program is geared for:

1) Not using TESC’s “per credit” plan. We’re comparing TESC’s “enrolled plan” with a regular COSC Business Degree .
1) No TECEPs exams taken - because there’s no review materials, and the student this guide is geared to wants to get a degree as easily, cheaply, and conveniently as possible. This includes the use of Penn Foster courses, ALEKS, etc. as well to satisfy that purpose as some exams like the DSST in Finance are known for being too hard (low pass rates as shown on instantcert.com)
3) With no TECEP exams taken, we’re comparing taking the same exact coursework between COSC and TESC’s “enrolled options” plan. Because of that the figures end up being about $500 - $1000 different.

When you take college courses, you don't get practice exams. You will only get review materials if your instructor is nice and easy. They definitely aren't going to create flashcards for you. TECEPs are like final exams. You either read and understood the material or you didn't. There is no need for some third party to create review material.

Most students who are here don’t want to sit down and thoroughly study and become a master in some random subject. Some do, most are not like you. They don't want to be perpetual students. Most want to learn something, but also want to get their college degree quickly, cheaply, and conveniently. That’s what websites like bain4weeks.com, or 123collegedegree.com are about. Those websites, this forum, and the degreewikias have a tremendous amount of feedback and questions about doing that.

Like you’ve said, TECEPs are like final exams - you have to read the material which is a dry, lengthy textbook. Anything where there is prep material for i.e.: UExcels, DSSTs, and CLEP exams you don’t need to. Most people would agree that they would rather read a 20 page pamphlet from instantcert, or study guide, with some practice tests to get credit rather than spending hours and hours reading a textbook from cover to cover only to not know what may or may not be in the test. That's why instantcert.com even exists because it helps narrow down what to study for - it just tells you what you need to know to pass the exam. So it is more efficient.

Yes your method is fine, it saves you $2000, but some people do not want to spend all that time to save $2000. For many, it is my goal to show that by spending a little extra, you can get the credits more easily and effortlessly than by meticulously and slowly going through a textbook. Most students don’t even like reading textbooks, they’re generally boring, dry, and hard to pay attention to.