Trying to apply at TESU

[managerman]

Considering that the average student was paying $3400+ to have this waived in the past, and those not waiving are required to take less classes than they had in the past, this is actually a decrease in funds that TESU is receiving and a benefit to most of their students.

I think we sometimes forget around here that folks like us, testing out of everything we can and finding alternative pathways, are far from the majority. In fact, we're a tiny, tiny fraction of the student base, and these policies aren't aimed at us and we're such a small proportion of what they're working with that we don't even register for the most part. Although it can hinder us a bit, this is a net benefit to almost all of their students.

I am not sure were you are getting the $3400 figure from but that certainly was not a part of the per credit plan that the majority of the new students are a part of. In general, yes, the majority of all college students are not testing out of or transferring in 100+ credits. This is hardly the case for TESU. In my conversation with the Resistrar, she estimated that somewhere between 65 and 75 percent of the total student population are transferring in north of 100 credits. That would include people that were or continue to be brick and mortar folks at other schools, but these changes effect them equally as well. This is a money grab for them. The university has no one tasked with finding ways to make less money. Now taking 16 credits in residency for the out of staters will be just shy of $8000. compare that to the cost of 8 teceps that was $888. Or you can bribe them with $2000 to do nothing but lower their own standard of graduation. Guess which road most are going to take. The net benefit here is that of the University. I guess $2000 isn't a bad price to pay for a degree from a university that potentially has had only a 1 credit cornerstone interaction with you class wise, plus the capstone that is required to be taken with them for all the BA'ers. This is closing the $888 dollar route to residency in favor of one that is $2000 for doing nothing but collecting the payment, to $8000 for taking the classes. The benefit (read $) is to TESU.

P.S. I am not trying to ruffle feathers here nor do I desire to be combative and I apologize if any of my posts have been interpreted as such. My goal is to share information in a community of people working towards improving their lives through gaining a college degree. I welcome and need opposing view points as well as looking at things from different angles and situations that people find themselves in. Also I know that just like every other business on earth, TESU needs to make money and I don't begrudge them for that. (But if they get less of mine I am ok with that too!) Good luck in your endeavors my friends.