Since you are only 19 and have the time you might be better of getting a computer science degree from a local state university. Find a college that accepts them and you could use CLEPs and DSSTs to transfer in most of your gen eds. Or even better, go at CC and use CLEP and DSSTs. If you find the right University you would only need to take 30 credits (one year of full time enrollment) with them and transfer the rest from CC, CLEP and maybe DSST. You could get a brick and morter college degree under the traditional 4 years time frame if you planned right. A college near me accepts 60 credits by exam, with that you could be done in 2 years.
Unless you a set on getting your degree online this is at least worth considering. If you qualified for the Pell Grant and scholarships depending on where you go it wouldn't be too much more expensive, but I think the education would be a lot better. You might have access to more connections who give you jobs/internships and point you in the right direction and help you figure things out. TESU and COSC are designed for working adults who already have careers and want to finish their degrees quickly. They don't even have real professors and if you go the route most people take on this fourm, you are teaching yourself. That is not to say that everyone that goes to these schools falls into this category, or even everyone on this forum falls into this category, but that is who the schools are designed to serve. If you are still figuring your life out you might gain more from completing school on campus at state school. It is all up to you, though if you want to do online school then do it.
Either way I think you are getting ahead of yourself. Focus on getting your GED or Diploma and while doing so, take some CLEPs that correspond with the subjects you taking for gen eds that are likely to be accepted wherever go. All of the big 3 are generous with CLEPs and many other Universities are too. Start from there. You don't have to have it all figured out.
Unless you a set on getting your degree online this is at least worth considering. If you qualified for the Pell Grant and scholarships depending on where you go it wouldn't be too much more expensive, but I think the education would be a lot better. You might have access to more connections who give you jobs/internships and point you in the right direction and help you figure things out. TESU and COSC are designed for working adults who already have careers and want to finish their degrees quickly. They don't even have real professors and if you go the route most people take on this fourm, you are teaching yourself. That is not to say that everyone that goes to these schools falls into this category, or even everyone on this forum falls into this category, but that is who the schools are designed to serve. If you are still figuring your life out you might gain more from completing school on campus at state school. It is all up to you, though if you want to do online school then do it.
Either way I think you are getting ahead of yourself. Focus on getting your GED or Diploma and while doing so, take some CLEPs that correspond with the subjects you taking for gen eds that are likely to be accepted wherever go. All of the big 3 are generous with CLEPs and many other Universities are too. Start from there. You don't have to have it all figured out.
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