Assistance appreciated.

[lidel]

Hello everyone.

Back in 2011 I had decided to try to CLEP my way to a business degree. I had a template all laid out and began my journey with a month or so of Aleks courses. At about the same time my wife decided that she wanted to upgrade her nursing degree. Since her upgrade would result in higher pay and mine would not and we could not afford to do both we put mine on the back burner. 

I have since decided that I would like to continue this project. I'm still interested in a business/accounting degree and have been reading furiously through the forums to figure out the current lay of the land with things. Many things have changed since I was last here, and I'm finding it a bit overwhelming with all the information. I wanted to touch base with some of you folks to get a little input before leaping in headfirst. A few things about my situation;

I live in a different town now and no longer have access to a CLEP test centre to do my testing.

I am a Canadian, living in Canada. I'm not sure if that makes any sort of a difference or not on fees, or even if this process is possible for me. I am uncertain of which of the "Big 3" I should be using, and if my citizenship would be a factor in this as well. I'm not fussy on any particular one and can't really make heads nor tails between them, they all seem to have pros and cons. I have read about the recent changes to TESU and COSC and the requirements for RA credits with each of them.

I graduated high school back in the '90s, then went almost directly into an apprenticeship and have been involved in managing/owning a successful business in that trade ever since.

My entire transcript is;

Beginning Algebra
ACE ID: ALEK-0001
Recommended credits: 3
Business Statistics
ACE ID: ALEK-0008
Recommended credits: 3
College Algebra
ACE ID: ALEK-0003
Recommended credits: 3
Intermediate Algebra
ACE ID: ALEK-0002
Recommended credits: 3
Introduction to Statistics
ACE ID: ALEK-0007
Recommended credits: 3
PreCalculus
ACE ID: ALEK-0005
Recommended credits: 3

Business statistics and Intro to Statistics saying they are upper-division.  I don't see Aleks referenced often here and I'm not sure if any/all of these are relevant any longer for my plans.

I came across these links and it seems like I could use study.com to do darn near everything with Excelsior and TESU (provided that I do TECEP exams in this case)

https://study.com/academy/popular/excels...tml#lesson

https://study.com/academy/popular/excels...tml#lesson

I also discovered this link and feel like it's probably a more cost-effective and time-effective approach overall. 

https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Sa...egree_Plan

A huge THANK YOU to whoever took the time out of their lives to put this together, seriously you are a lifesaver.  

As this one seems the most efficiently put together, it's what I'm leaning towards and framing my next steps from. My general idea so far would be to knock off the Sophia courses asap, then start on the Study.com ones with their $ 200.00 a month "College Accelerator Plan" and at that point have their "Success Coach" help me develop a personalized degree plan. Once I have a firm plan in place and understand things a little better I assume I would want to enrol to lock-in that plan so it doesn't change mid-stream?

I'm trying to get an idea if I'm on the right path here, or if I'm missing something big. I'm open to any input or suggestions at this point. 

Thanks for taking the time to look it over.

SM