TESC vs Excelsior

[joel66]

One of the reasons why I signed up with Excelsior a few months ago was to see where I stand officially and have a chart of progression so to speak. I'm also getting my monies worth by calling them all the time with useless questions, then calling again or emailing them the same information as I forgot the week prior. Lol Also, by getting courses pre-approved and making sure I'm following the right path.

I initially signed up for the B.S. Liberal Arts program and have like 30 units left, but starting to think it would be better to switch to the B.S.. in General Business as I'm thinking of pursuing my MBA and noticed the pre-mba foundation courses would take about 6 months anyways to complete. I would rather lock in now then wait for any additional requirements. Based on the requirements for the business, I need 33 credits of Arts & Sciences and 23 credit for business.

Basically looking at the following for Arts & Sciences
5.0 Math 100 Elementary Algebra - American River College self pace program
5.0 Math 120 Intermediate Algebra - ARC's self pace program
5.0 Math 110 Elementary Geometry - regular ARC class 16 week
3.0 Statistics - 6 week online program at ARC
* 3.0 MATH 342 Modern Business Mathematics at ARC
3.0 Ethics in America - DSST - okay under Arts & Sciences by Excelsior
3.0 Organizational Behavior - DSST - okay under Arts & Sciences by Excelsior
3.0 Microeconomics - undecided on either CLEP or ARC online class
3.0 Macroeconomics - undecided on either CLEP or ARC online class
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33.0 units for Arts & Sciences

* This course is designed around applications of mathematics in economic and business contexts. Specific topics include functions and related business formulas, tables and graphs, finance (interest and exponential models in economics), rates of change including applications and optimization, and linear programming.

Business Component
3.0 Financial Accounting - undecided on either CLEP or ARC online 4.0 unit class
3.0 Managerial Accounting - no choice now, ARC online 4.0 unit class
3.0 Principles of Management - CLEP test
3.0 Principles of Marketing - CLEP test
3.0 Financial Management - DSST test
3.0 Production/Operations Management - Excelsior class?
3.0 Business Policy - Excelsior class?

FYI, the classes at ARC are $20.00 per credit unit, which is hard to beat. That is why I'm taking some classes at ARC.

Also, why so much MATH? I suck as math really bad and if I have to take the GMAT, I want to make sure I'm totally prepared. Also, I don't know if I want to give it a shot at a top school and don't know if they provide any type of scholarships with a high GMAT and good GPA. Also, most of the math at ARC is self paced, and with my son already completed his last Calculus class, I have a good tutor.