TESU extra DSST

[natshar]

I would avoid tak

ing TESU classes like the plague.  I think I would rather walk 100 miles than take a TESU course.  All they do is annoy you every single week for 3 months telling you to write things.  Multiply that by several courses + having to take the Capstone/Cornerstone together and that would drive me nuts.

What courses have you taken with them?

I've heard the capstone is difficult but what about others?

I know multiple people say the cornerstone is easy and that makes sense considering it is an introductory level course.

I believe mysonx3 took a number of them for law school grades and said they weren't that bad. (but I don't want to put words in his mouth, I could be wrong). I think depends on the person.

I'm comparing taking a course from CLEP/Sophia whatever that usually takes less than 20 hours to complete.  You are done in one week or less. 

Taking a TESU course it drags on and on, never-ending annoying tasks to do with lots of deadlines which is similar to a brick and mortar school course.  No thanks.

I would be interested if anyone tracked the hours it took them to do different TESU courses.  I heard they are bad and more of them you do the worse it is.

I see that does make sense. But I'm still curious which ones you did? or did you do any?

I believe OP wanted to do 16 credits TESU because with the Pell Grant and Flat Rate it would save them over a thousand dollars. And to them, having to do extra work for a few months is worth over a thousand dollar savings and saves the hassle of finding one more UL for the AOS.

As far as TESU course difficulty, I can't speak for that. The only course I did at TESU was the defunct TES-100 and that took less than hour to complete.

I didn't do any TESU courses so I'm making an assumption based on feedback from various college review sites.

Through this process, I learned that saving a few bucks isn't worth wasting a bunch of time. 

I'll track the time it takes for me to do the capstone/cornerstone which I plan to start June/July.  I hope I don't spend more time on them then doing all the credits for my entire degree, that would suck.

Don't forget you have to do 2 capstones. So you are already at 9 credits and 2 terms. Idk where you will get the last UL for Finance it is hard to find.

I guess everyone on this forum is different. Some value time more and some value money more. I think during this time period, for a lot of people money would be more valuable than time, because we have nothing but time now. And with being unemployed there might be little to no money coming in. And I don't think over $1000 is a few bucks.

But I have seen this debate in different ways on this forum before. The old time vs money debate or more work vs more money. Everyone has different opinions on it and that is perfectly ok.

EDIT: Also if you get aid and assuming you don't want to take the capstones together. TESU requires 6 credits a term. So if you did that you would be at 12 credits. So at that point, you would be close, so at least it would make sense to consider bumping up to 16. If you were at 12 credits and then did 16 credits, you would probably save at least $1300 or more. Not telling you what to do but just something to consider if you get financial aid and/or can't find a good way to get the last UL finance course. And if you do the two capstones separate and don't overlap you are looking at 2021 graduation. So if you want 2020 grad you have to take two capstones at once or overlap them.