Help Please! TESC AA Degree & Tuition Planning

[ISKBizz15]

I think it's best to use the Pay Per Credit plan. You would need 4 TECEPS. It's up to you when you enroll, but the benefit of enrolling now is locking in this catalog. A new catalog this summer could mean changes to requirements. You pay the $75 to apply & signing up for a course or a TECEP changes your status to enrolled on the 10th day of the term you signed up for. The deadline to sign up for the May term is April 18. Here is the academic calendar:

Thomas Edison State College: Undergraduate Academic Calendar

To maintain your tuition plan, you need to take one course or TECEP during a 12 month period. So, as long as you take one TECEP every year after enrolling, you are locked in. For that reason, I wouldn't do all of the TECEPs at once in the beginning. I'd do them as needed to maintain the tuition plan while you finished up all of the other requirements.

From reading here, some good options (based on what you still need) would be English Comp 2 (ENC-102), Technical Writing (ENG-201), Computer Concepts & Applications (CIS-107), Psychology of Women (PSY-270) or Marriage & Family (SOC-210).

HTH!

Edited to add: Also, if you are going for speed, you may want to look into using Straighterline as well. If you put in the time, you can knock out several courses quickly. If you do several in one month, it can even make it cheaper per credit than testing.

Good luck!

Thanks for all of this! Now I feel more confident about how to proceed. I'm getting ready to take you & Prloko's advise & apply today & enroll as soon as possible to knock out these credits, but I'm a bit confused on how it would be cheaper to take some Straighterline courses. I spoke to an advisor at Straighterline, and based on what they told me about the total cost of all of the fees (membership, textbooks, course fees, etc.), even for just one month seems to be a bit more costly compared to just testing out w/CLEP or DSST & using sites like Instantcert or Saylor for study materials.

Can you clarify some of this for me? Because I know advisors at colleges & programs like Straighterline barely give you much information unless you specifically ask about something, and even then they're still very limited about the information they give out.

Thanks for the support!