Is it possible to 'hide' a degree?

[KenJ]

Yes, correspondence schools have been around for at least 100 years. Penn Foster is one of the oldest ones. Distance learning includes courses by mail, email, satellite, television, video, online, and any other method that doesn't require you to be in the classroom.

The point is, I never took one course by correspondence, but the catch-all phrase for non-traditional learning was "correspondence degree." Also, even though my degree was good enough to get a commission in the Army, it was not looked highly upon in the civilian world. There was definitely a stigma attached to it back then. It was not a common thing to have a degree from a "non-traditional" source. There were no "how to do it" guides. There were no CLEP study guide books. You got your hands on a textbook, read it, did the twenty question sample test and hoped for the best on test day. I wish we had the resources that are available today and I'm glad that non-traditional education doesn't have the stigma that it had at one time. Basically, all we had were the two page "study guides" that CLEP and DANTES give out. People were really sh*tty about you having to be "in the seat" back then.