First Term Free at Walden!

[eriehiker]

TrailRunr:

I just want to thank you for your very creative dual degree cs/math plans. They were fantastic and really inspired me to take a lot more math classes. It is a major bummer to hear that your degrees have not helped at work. I'm not sure if it means anything, but I have always admired your effort and plans for the degree. I hope that it eventually provides you some value.

Thanks Again!
eriehiker

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Update:

I have completed 14 competencies towards the MS in Early Childhood Studies: Administration, Management and Leadership. My unofficial Walden transcript now includes six graduate credit hours from the program and I am one competency away from three more credits and a few more from five classes total. I have 26 days left in the third month of the term and I feel pretty confident that I will get to at least five or six classes which would be 15 to 18 credit hours. Many thanks to sanantone for noticing this deal/program.

I am kind of 50/50 on paying $1800 to Walden to complete the master's. I already have a master's degree, so that is not the value proposition. It is an administrative master's and I do hope to transition from teaching to curriculum/administration in three years. So that would be a positive. It is cheap. I also feel confident that I would be able to complete the program in a second term. I may defer to the summer term so that I have time after school ends.

One thing that is an issue is that Walden has still not given me a credit transfer evaluation. Walden's web site says that there is a maximum of 15 credits that can be transferred into the program. Since I already have an MAT and several courses would seem to be equivalents, this has been an issue in terms of plotting strategy for this first term and also decisionmaking in terms of a second potential term. So, we will see.

Note: It is possible that Walden just doesn't know what to do with my quantity of transcripts. I did send them about a dozen. Probably can't fault them for that. Haha!

Overall, I think that the program is pretty much as advertised. It is A LOT of writing. There have been just a couple of competencies with a multiple choice final exam/assessment. I also have to say that I have never had APA format requirements so rigorously enforced as in this program. This is saying something, given that I have a Michigan undergrad, a completed master's and twelve credits so far from Harvard extension. Walden will apparently die on the hill for APA. Haha!

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Oh, also, it is possible to complete the graduate certificate in administration/leadership in one term. It is a lot of work, but doable. I will pretty much be there in two months because I didn't do too much at Christmas time. I was advised that switching back into the grad. cert. from the MS program was a program change and would require a second term. So anyone attempting a free grad. cert. should go immediately into the grad. cert. program. I am not too bummed about this because I'm not sure that I need another grad. cert. and the extra class is probably worth the trade-off for me.