Please help me choose a college..

[allanv]

Hello everyone. I'm fairly new here, but I have been fairly intensively reading this great forum trying to figure out what my next step is. You guys have heard it all before, but maybe if I detail my specifics some of you can offer advice about which way I should go.

Here goes:

I want to complete a RA Bachelor's degree. I am older and primarily want to finish my degree for personal satisfaction. I have had a fairly successful career in advertising and I do not need the degree to keep working...but I realize that a legitimate degree can come in handy if I need it.

I will probably go for the shortest, most cost efficient path to a degree, no matter what the degree is in. I may want to continue and get an advanced degree, but that is not my priority and it is not my main focus now.

I have 92 prior quarter-hours of credit from a major state college, but about 15 of those hours are D grades. I have a poor GPA from those days as well...I had plenty of A's but some real stinker grades as well. Overall GPA was about 1.7 or so. Oh, and most of the courses cover the general ed requirements. Lots of math, speech, english, etc. Not much History.

My area of expertise is in television advertising. I know a pretty fair amount about cinematography.

I have recently taken two CLEP tests (Info Sys and Comp App and Prin of Mktg) and passed them both pretty easily. I will take a couple of more tests this week and with the IC test and other tests I feel pretty good about them.

With all of that said, I would like to enroll in a school that would allow a generous transfer of my credit, maybe allowing my D grades to come in. I would also like to accumulate other credits through testing, or even the FEMA credits, but I would also like to get a lot of credits through PLA, in the area of cinematography and advertising. I have found a ton of UL courses from USC film school or SCAD that I can easily prepare a PLA portfolio for. I am looking for a minimal residency requirement.

A dream degree might be something like "General Studies with a Concentration In Cinematography" or something like that. However, I would certainly consider testing out of as much as possible and going with a more traditional degree.

I have applied to TESC, EC, Ashford. I have looked at City College of Seattle, COSC.

I keep hoping that I'll stumble upon some famous-name B&M college that would magically work without a ton of residency requirements, but I know that's not likely. I'm a little nervous about how the Big 3 will be perceived should I ever need to use the degree, but I know that's probably where I will end up.

That's my story- sorry to be so long winded. I'm really hoping that someone can help point me in the right direction.

Thanks for checking this post out.

Allanv