Excelsior- cheapest route?

[cookderosa]

Also, if your Pell award total was $2400 for the year, then that means it would be spread out over the year if you're taking full time courses throughout. Not sure if excelsior's semester system is traditional or similar to tesu's but taking only 1 or 2 courses probably would not let you use the full $2400. You would have to take ~24 credits to get the full amount. $2400 doesn't help very much if you're taking that many credits.

Good points. $2400 would be the full award, so split it in however many semesters they have per year (let's say 2, I don't know) so you'd need to register for 15 credits (1/2 of 30) each semester. At $510 per credit you're paying $7650 to use a $1200 "coupon." And you're doing it twice - so add in the cost of books and access codes for 10 courses- no way you can do that for less than $1500. Ouch.

My math says you're spending $16,500 to use your Pell Grant.

If you let the board help you find alternatives for those 30 credits, you can probably earn 27 of them nontraditionally ($900 or less) and pay rack rate for your Capstone ($1500) - so all inyou'd be miles ahead this way.