03-10-2020, 10:35 PM
(03-10-2020, 10:06 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: So Max, you're 17 or 18 this year? You like the number 68 eh, why not 69? haha, in my favorite language, it just means road to prosperity... Anyways, you are correct, it would be about the end of the year before you can graduate and you will need to take the Capstone/Cornerstone together with financial aid to just cover those two courses along with the grad/residency waiver.I like that and understand transfer issues with NCCRS vs Ace
I also highly suggest you to take TESU vs WGU when you have that many transferable credits, further to that, it shows you progressed from a B&M State University to something higher if you decide to go to another school for a Masters. If you want to go for the BACS complete all your CLEPS then get the remainder done with Study.com for the UL requirements.
Instead of going for NCCRS options such as Onlinedegree.com, you may want to stick with ACE options for all the requirements, you can use the Onlinedegree.com courses as "free elective/overflow credits" and just for "fun" credits to learn Python/Robotics and whichever course you can think of with NCCRS - the main reason is, ability to transfer into another college/university.
So, in place of Intro to Programming at Onlinedegree.com, you can take the Intro to Programming at Study.com - since you're taking courses at Study.com towards Computer Science, some of the information will overlap with other courses - especially if you are going to take extra programming courses at Study.com - If you can, complete some dual enrollment courses at the CC for Comp Sci/Math (this is where you "learn the most").
TLDR: I agree with your assessment, do all you can with CLEPS first, then Study.com to finish the UL requirements, finally complete the last two at TESU. Always choose dual enrollment Comm College courses first, CLEPS, then ACE over NCCRS credits.
It's why I chosen only 1 or 2 max with onlinedegree.com but its neither reason why wgu is not interesting to me. Also with my credits I have to take more than 8 classes if i did wgu. For me a masters is not worth it and i have zero interests of pursing I'm dine after a masters so graduate school is not important. Also while I did say cost is not an issue I would like to try to minimize as I'm paying at the moment out of pocket until graduation to get pell in the future. I am 18 at the moment so I'm good there. Also while it's not a big issue I rather take the cheaper options like onlinedegree.com free versus another course through study.com due to the 100 per course or the 500 through my cc. Study.com/cc is only for Ul or classes I cant get through elsewhere if you catch my drift.