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[Life Long Learning]

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So no you don't get automatically promoted by the number of credits you obtain (but it doesn't hurt when you're up for your promotion review).

I just wanted to say there are still plenty of us in the DoD studying for exams. Sadly, my test center is sponsored by Coastline Community College and is withdrawing due to a lack of turn out. Before my friend and I created a testing initiative for the command our test center saw 1 or 2 exams a month. Now, 8 months later, he's looking at 2-5 a week. Still the test center is scheduled for shutdown. Sad day.

How is Coastline Community College?  It sounds like a great college for Veterans?

Coastline hasn't had a college office presence here on my installation for a while. Right now we have Vincent's. Neither school is as accepting of transfer credits as Tesu, EC, or Charter Oaks. The one guy they still pay to administer the test center though is pretty awesome. I showed him what we do here on the forum and he agrees that the best bang for the buck isn't always going a B&M. He has been giving out all the condensed resources I made (from forum info) for my work center to anybody who shows up to the test center.

I'm going through EC and I can say I haven't had a poor experience with them.
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Excelsior College was seamless using the Post 9/11 GI Bill for me.   

Vincennes University only required 6 SH for an AS degree.

Coastline CC has tons of AA degrees with real concentrations.  Coastline CC exam fact sheets say they accept almost all CLEP, DSST, and ECE exams.  All three are posted online.   I am having Coastline review my exams now and some transfer B&M credits to see how easy or hard they are.  Coastline might be a long-term thing for me.  To get a degree from them you only need 12 SH from Coastline and you can apply for as many AA degrees as your credits fit into.  For me, that might be quite a few.   I will know more in the future!

I love FTCC for Veterans in North Carolina.  FTCC does refuse to accept college credits using the quarter system unless its 5 QH which is not common.   They did accept all my ECE, CLEP, DSST exams.  They love many industry tests and schools also.   FTCC is in bed with Excelsior College with agreements.   FTCC has over 200+ degrees and certificates.   FTCC just joined the Yellow Ribbon program.  That being said I signed up for three more classes next term.  FTCC limits me to 13 SH per year using the Yellow Ribbon Program.  My first course this Fall II term and I now have a Certificate from them (3 SH needed to be from FTCC).  I will finish my last 3 courses next fall for 4 more credentials.