Need help with constructing a full path to B.A in Psychology - TESU.

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There are no funding options for these that I know of, unless your company has tuition reimbursement, or you can get financial aid that includes taking some courses at a CC and using the rest of the money to fund the courses.

You also have some things incorrect on your spreadsheet:
1) Shmoop is only $85/mo, and you can take unlimited courses there, so it's not averaging $100 per course like SL or Study.com
2) TEEX courses are only 2cr each. You didn't list the 3rd course, so you should add it to Free Electives
3) Saylor Psychology course is only 2cr


Here are some ways to make it cheaper:

1) Utilize ALL methods of getting free courses: TEEX, NFA, The Institutes

2) Utilize ALEKS math for 12cr - but you'd have to do that NOW! So far, it looks like the recommendation for credit expires 1/31, so you'd have to take and pass all courses by then. If you've already taken College Algebra, Stats & Precalc (can't tell on your spreadsheet), then you need to take Intermediate Algebra immediately!

3) Take as many Saylor courses as possible. The price is only $25 per exam.

4) Utilize Shmoop if you can fit at least 2 courses into your plan. If not, it may be cheaper to use SL or Study.com

5) If you use SL or Study.com, do as many courses as you can in a single month. SL especially. The only downside to SL is that you have to buy the books, and that may make the courses out of range price-wise. Study.com may be a better bet if you're low on funds.

6) Use coupons - both Study.com and SL have them

7) Try for the scholarship on Study.com if you can, you will get 6 free courses on there.

8) PLAN, PLAN, PLAN everything before you start working it. You do not want to get partway through a month on membership fees, and not have time to complete your class because work is crazy or your kid's soccer season has started in earnest. Plan something with membership fees or deadlines for a downtime where you can devote a ton of time to completing courses, even if it's only a single month. For instance, my daughter now goes to school 2 days a week. I could spend 8 hours while she's gone doing schoolwork if I really wanted to. But come summer, both kids are home all day. And in the fall, I have no idea what her school schedule will be (she's in a special homeschooling program at her high school and last semester she was only at school 3 hours a week).

Good luck!

@dfrecore, here are my responses to what you've said which I take kinly.

1) I know Shmoop is $85 monthly and I plan to knock out all 3 courses with that, but who knows I could be done with spare time left and could squeeze one or two more. But, not so many people on here do more than those 3 history. Members of the forum who had done more than this major 3 are either going for a degree in arts or humanities, so for a BSBA, it wouldn't fit any of the course requirement. But, since @Notgodot, is waiting for the eval of all 10 or more Shmoop courses he/she took then I wouldn't mind fitting one or two more Shmoop courses into the monthly membership, so those could go into Free Electives as well, depending on the eval from TESU for @notgodot.

2) TEEX is what I am working on, as long as it's free I don't mind more if they have available, because it's better to have more than to have less, so I'm definately working on all 3 from TEEX.

3)Checked the Saylor Psychology course on their website and say it stated somewhere that it was 1cr, must have missed it on ACE credit registry, because I was checking a lot of courses. You're right, it's 2cr, edited the plan and left it in the Gen ED electives. I think I wanted to ask about the Saylor Intro to Sociology, that one I think is 1cr, correct me it I'm wrong.

Part II:
1) Definately doing that and would max those out for sure.

2)I did utilize ALEKS and right now my acct expired and cancelled on there. I was able to go through 5 courses; Begining Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra, PreCalculus and Intro to Statistics. Member of the forum rarely talked about the Business Statistics courses ot any other, so I left those one and moved on.

3) This is exactly my plan, since Saylor courses are basically free, you only have to pay $25 per proctored exam, hence my question in the latter post about NCCRS and ACE. ACE has a way of storing this courses and credit earned, but NCCRS doesn't seem like they do, or perhaps I missed that info about them, because I visited the website and read the information on there about them and also that of the forum wikia. It just seems they onlu evaluate this courses for the organizations. So, my only chance of getting a transcript for any Saylor course that are not on the ACE registry that TESU accepts would be through Saylor themselves. But, there's no way of having that on storage, incase Saylor cease to exit one day.

4) Don't get your suggestion on this one, are you saying I should take 2 month Shmoop courses and fit in my plan, because I have the 3 history courses already in the plan.

7) Would try for the Study.com schloarship, but I'm an individual that nothing related to luck happens to, I've always not had that going for me, I've hustled to get all I have right now.

Sent you a Pm.