Advice needed fastest path to a degree

[tman7479]

I applied at Patten and they offered only 30 provisional credits out of my 99. It is a bit hard because they have very specific courses you have to take to get the degree and no electives.

I have also applied at WGU and NAU (Northern Arizona State University), and Capella. All three have the competency based degree paths. UW Milwaukee does as well. In addition a place called Brandman in California does too. Miwaukee has an advertisement saying someone earned 33 credits there in like 3 months for a flat fee and finished their degree. I did apply at Milwaukee previously but they wanted me to pay around $150 to take an English placement exam and I never got around to it since it needed to be done at an actual test center versus online.

I basically have to wait and see how they all accept my transfer credits and see if any of those competency programs might come in at a lower cost than TESU.

Find a much less expensive 4-yr school to go to, or else give up the Pell. You are robbing Peter to pay Paul, only worse. You're going to enroll in an expensive school for $9000 to get $1500 in a Pell Grant! You need to find a school that is close to $1500 for semester.

Not sure if you were willing to do a competency-based degree like WGU or Patten or something like that, but those are good to check into. WGU is $2,890/6-month term, and with the credits you have, you might be able to swing a BA in Business or BSIT at WGU within that time period. It's worth checking into.

The one thing you need to remember with WGU is that after you apply and get your evaluation, you are then allowed to go and grab some inexpensive credits (they accept lots of ACE credit, are a SL partner school, will take AP/CLEP/DSST, etc.). So you could see what they give you, grab inexpensive credits to fill out the LL requirements, and then enroll and get the last of what you need. BUT, if you apply, get your eval, and then enroll, you cannot get any additional credits outside of WGU. So make sure you don't enroll until you have all of the inexpensive credits you can get.

You want to make sure that you are able to finish your degree in that 6-mo term, because if you have to go over, it's another $2,890 and you've just made it more expensive than TESU rather than less.