TESU 100% Test Out Degree Plan Check (BA Social Sciences)

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First, it's almost impossible for someone else to tell you if the courses you've picked are "good" or not - it is entirely dependent upon what YOU are good at. If you picked a bunch of history courses (which I personally enjoy), but you don't really like them, then I might say your plan is good, but it might not actually be good FOR YOU. Therefore, you need to decide which courses/exams will work best for you.

That being said, I would not do all of those business courses if you enjoy Social Sciences (except maybe Microecon, just on the theory that it's interesting to see why people do the things they do, but even then, it's a stretch). I wouldn't take Financial or Managerial Accounting, or Microeconomics, or Business Law, unless it was absolutely forced on me by my degree (it was by the way, and I still didn't enjoy them, or are not enjoying them currently). Take some courses you will enjoy more, or you will never finish your degree!

Also, I noticed that almost all of your credits will be done through CLEP/DSST. I'm not sure if you know all of the other ways to get credits, but there are a TON out there, and many of them are cheaper than the exams you list. For instance, you can take the Intermediate Algebra ALEKS course for $20. And if you can pass College Algebra, Precalc and Stats in that same month (or even in the next couple of months), that's certainly cheaper than taking the CLEP exams. If you're military and just want to do DSST/CLEP, then by all means do it, but there are certainly better options to take other types of courses if you're open to other ways of doing them.

Also, Shmoop has some history courses that are currently $25 for a subscription for this month. Which means if you could complete all 3 courses, it would cost you a whopping $25 for 9cr. That's a great deal. US History I, II, and Modern European History - and the last 2 have a lot of duplication, meaning European History course is easier to take because of that.

There's also SL, Study.com (with a 20% off coupon), Saylor ($25/course), NFA (free), Insurance Ethics (free), TEEX (free), etc. Lots of ways to get your credits for less. If you enjoy history, Study.com has The Civil War & Reconstruction and The American Civil War Era (both LL, but don't duplicate) - this sounds much easier to me, as you're killing 2 birds with 1 stone.

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In looking at your courses/exams, I can answer some of your questions:

1) College Algebra is not needed, College Math is fine

2) Intro to Computing DSST/INfo Systems CLEP duplicate each other. But the Comp Sci course at Saylor or the Computer TECEP do not overlap any of those and can all be used. You can also take the Intro to Computing or Info Systems course at Study.com

3) Rise & Fall of the Soviet Union has been changed to History of the Soviet Union, and content has changed fairly recently

4) MIS DSST is UL (but doesn't matter since you need 18cr of UL in the AOS, and no other UL courses matter at TESU)

5) Fundamentals of Counseling DSST is LL

6) History of the Vietnam War is UL

7) You won't need to do the Cornerstone since you're transferring in all of your credits except the Capstone

8) Lifespan duplicates Human Growth & Dev

9) Order of first business courses: Intro to Business, Supervision, Management, Marketing

Thank you for your in depth and much appreciated feedback.

I do like history and chose many of these courses for that reason.

Preferably I would not want to take the business courses either, but as I was going over my options (solely CLEP and DSST) there wasn't much else to choose from.
The only reason why I was not including saylor, study.com, NFA, etc was because I am unaware on how grad school admissions would look at those. Do you have any insight to that? Will that be a hinderance in me being accepted?

1) Good news

2) If this will not hinder grad school admissions I will do this

3) Bad idea to take it? Has it gotten more difficult/less targeted study material and feedback compilated?