02-25-2018, 05:48 PM
I have close to 90 community college credits. I completed an AS in social science 20 years ago. Then when I was a state employee, I tried to take advantage of the 1 free state school course per term. I naively thought I’d be able to use this benefit to get credits for a bachelors degree at one of the 4 year schools in the area, but it was impossible to get into any courses with all the rules. I decided to just take a variety of things at 2 of the local community colleges. One of the classes I took was biology, chemistry, and independent research credits combined into 1 class for 3 quarters. That was a total of 11 quarter hours each term for 3 terms, which ended up being 22 semester hours. At some point I realized I needed to find another way, because free was just going to keep me in Community college forever.