I'm back -- and asking for bachelor's help again!

[nataliedujour]

hmm. Honestly you already have enough TESU courses done to avoid the waiver fee. So TESU would actually be a cheap option. Fill out a FAFSA and see if you get a pell grant.

Also all Sophia.org are free right now until the 31st of July. They can meet most gen eds. Do those ASAP.

Also TEEX has some courses that count towards criminal justice.

Do you have to do criminal justice? Because I don't know if it can be fulled tested out of which would cost more money and time for the classes.

If you did Liberal Studies if would be less courses and quicker.  BSBA also could be a good option looks like you've got a lot of it done. Do a "what if" for those and see what happens.

If I were in your shoes, I'd stay with TESU, unless you have your heart set on criminal justice I'd look into other options. Walden has competency based Criminal Justice Bachelors I believe.

TESU eliminated the option to transfer in an information literacy course back in 2018 when they made the cornerstone a required course for all degrees. There is no way to avoid having to take it unless you already have an existing bachelor's degree and you're coming back for a second one. It is considered a GenEd requirement so those are all waived for existing bachelor's degree holders.

So no matter how you look at it, you're going to have to take the cornerstone (SOS-110) and the capstone course for your major in order to graduate from TESU.

It is nice that you have enough residency credits that you don't need to pay for the residency waiver at least.

@natshar: I can safely say (for better or for worse) I would not be eligible for a Pell grant lol. Even though I'm currently unemployed, my husband makes more than enough money to render me ineligible. Definitely planning on taking every Sophia course I can squeeze in -- I love free courses! I'm not married to the idea of a CJ degree -- that was just the one that happened to be on my mind at the time when I re-enrolled, but if it's not possible to test out I'm open to switching. Liberal Studies looks like it might be easier to get cheap credits for... do you have any recommendations for a concentration, if I were to do a BSBA? Back in 2016 I had toyed with the idea of HR/OM, but I don't know which concentrations are easiest/cheapest nowadays.
Also, I looked into Walden briefly, and I saw they're doing a promotion right now for half-off on a couple of their competency-based programs, CJ and BSBA specifically... I'll have to do some serious digging on how generous their transfer policies are, because that's quite tempting.

@Merlin: I read a thread from last year that mentioned possibly having a TECEP sub in for SOS-110, but it looks like that didn't pan out... there's really no other option besides taking the course itself? Unfortunately this will be my first bachelor's so I don't have the ability to waive that course. Thankfully these two courses together only cost about as much as the residency waiver does, I'm just trying to push my luck for anything cheaper lol.