Another TESU BSBA General Management Plea for Help

[Diana321]

Yay, you're on the 2018 catalog year! You have to jump for joy! So, you don't have anything to worry about at all, it doesn't affect you as you have exactly 8 courses, which translates to 24 RA credits... BTW, are you in NJ? You took 3 classes from TESU and have straight A's, I am really envious!  You just need to add two courses to that list and you're done with the RA requirements!

Your only concern right now is how to play this out, to waive the residency fee that is, you need the capstone and you graduate, but you can skip the residency fee by taking 2 more courses... one is a requirement to get exactly 30 credits RA, you're left with one more course for 33 RA credits total.  

This is how I would slice it and recommend, as you need to take two more courses to hit 16 credits residency... take the cornerstone and the liberal arts capstone together to get yourself a BALS as an extra degree without doing much extra work.  You can continue using your Sophia.org for Lower Level and Coopersmith, Davar, Study.com for upper level credits.

Otherwise, you can pay the residency waiver fee.  But if you're in NJ, it'll be cheaper to take two courses, it doesn't have to be the Cornerstone/Capstone for BALS, you can take anything easy or something that interests you, just get two more TESU courses done along with your BSBA Capstone and you're good to go!

I AM jumping for joy that I am on an older catalog year    And I feel so foolish because I didn't count TESU's 3 courses as RA credits.  Since I only counted the 5 I took at a community college years ago I thought I was coming up really short for the RA credit requirement but that doesn't seem to be the case.

Yes, I'm in NJ.  I kept my current catalog by taking one class per year at TESU.  My intent has always been to meet the 16 credit residency requirement, rather than pay the waiver, but I'm rethinking that right now.  I have a chronic health condition that recently flared up which means I may have to back-burner my degree progress for a few months.  I'm so close to finishing, the last thing I want to do is lose that momentum.    So now I'm giving serious consideration to paying the residency waiver, and just be DONE with the degree, especially in light of all of the changes over the years with TESU (with any school, really).  

But this extra degree you mentioned is intriguing!  So once I've finished out my remaining courses and the capstone for the BSBA, all I need to do is take the cornerstone/liberal arts capstone for a BALS?  I don't need additional courses in at least the AOS for the BALS? I feel like it can't be that easy and that I'm missing something somewhere.  But if I'm not, that would be amazing!  

Bjcheung77, I'm so grateful to you for your kind words and your insight.  You've definitely calmed my fears and I feel much better about my plan.  A big THANK YOU to you!!!