05-05-2023, 04:28 PM
Welcome to the forum! I'm finalizing my own degree plan right now. Let me share the tricks I've been using - you probably know them, but I figure at least one of them is bound to help somebody out.
Most ACE degree providers often have a "partners" page that provide information on exactly what classes of theirs transfer to a given school. For instance, here's the Excelsior partner page on Study.com: https://study.com/college/school/excelsior-college.html
Or for Sophia Learning (great cheap way to knock out gen eds): https://excelsior.sophia.org/#courses
I've also used googles "site:[url]" trick to narrow down past degree plans posted on this forum. For, instance, if you search Google this:
you'll only get results from this forum, thanks to having "site:https://www.degreeforum.net/" in there.
I've used this technique to find you some past threads:
https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...egree-Plan
https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...-BA-degree
My plan is a spreadsheet with all of the degree requirements in one column, corresponding transfer courses in a second column, credit earned, etc, divided into sections by area of study. I'd recommend your daughter use a similar organizational technique.
Out of curiosity, what does your daughter want to do after college? I ask because I know from secondhand experience that you can only access certain types of business (the very high powered stuff - consulting, private equity, international banking, venture capital, other high finance, big 4 accounting, the "top" marketing firms, etc) from extremely prestigious schools. This is true both at the bachelor's and MBA level. There's even a common sentiment that any MBA program outside of the Top 25 or so, as ranked by US News & World Report, is a ripoff. I went to a pretty good school for my first degree, and some of my classmates would complain that we were only a target school "Second-Tier Consulting", like Deloitte, instead of more prestigious firms like McKinsey. Plus, prestigious MBA admissions often (informally) require that you have a bachelor's degree leaning on the more prestigious side as well.
This sentiment is nuts, but it really does decide who gets to pursue these sorts of careers and subsequently make more money than god for the rest of their lives, and who has to slum it with the rest of us. Doing an online degree would lock her out of that option for life. That's elitism for you!
If she wants one of those careers she should wait until 18 and do the extracurricular stuff now that she'd need to do to shoot for one of those schools. Depending on your financial situation, she might also qualify for large need-based scholarships through places like Questbridge, or sometimes the schools themselves. If that's not the path she wants, she'll likely be well served by the faster degree options, especially if she can get some internships. Although for a highschooler someone may have to pull strings.
I wouldn't go on this rant if she was looking at a technical (computer science, IT, cybersecurity) or professional (accounting, nursing, teaching, engineering, PT/OT) but the benefit business school is often much more about the social side of things than the actual material that gets taught. With that said, you know her situation better than I do. It's up to the two of you to make the call, you have great options before you, and I'm confident you two will make a good choice no matter what.
Most ACE degree providers often have a "partners" page that provide information on exactly what classes of theirs transfer to a given school. For instance, here's the Excelsior partner page on Study.com: https://study.com/college/school/excelsior-college.html
Or for Sophia Learning (great cheap way to knock out gen eds): https://excelsior.sophia.org/#courses
I've also used googles "site:[url]" trick to narrow down past degree plans posted on this forum. For, instance, if you search Google this:
Quote:site:https://www.degreeforum.net/ excelsior bsb
you'll only get results from this forum, thanks to having "site:https://www.degreeforum.net/" in there.
I've used this technique to find you some past threads:
https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...egree-Plan
https://www.degreeforum.net/mybb/Thread-...-BA-degree
My plan is a spreadsheet with all of the degree requirements in one column, corresponding transfer courses in a second column, credit earned, etc, divided into sections by area of study. I'd recommend your daughter use a similar organizational technique.
Out of curiosity, what does your daughter want to do after college? I ask because I know from secondhand experience that you can only access certain types of business (the very high powered stuff - consulting, private equity, international banking, venture capital, other high finance, big 4 accounting, the "top" marketing firms, etc) from extremely prestigious schools. This is true both at the bachelor's and MBA level. There's even a common sentiment that any MBA program outside of the Top 25 or so, as ranked by US News & World Report, is a ripoff. I went to a pretty good school for my first degree, and some of my classmates would complain that we were only a target school "Second-Tier Consulting", like Deloitte, instead of more prestigious firms like McKinsey. Plus, prestigious MBA admissions often (informally) require that you have a bachelor's degree leaning on the more prestigious side as well.
This sentiment is nuts, but it really does decide who gets to pursue these sorts of careers and subsequently make more money than god for the rest of their lives, and who has to slum it with the rest of us. Doing an online degree would lock her out of that option for life. That's elitism for you!
If she wants one of those careers she should wait until 18 and do the extracurricular stuff now that she'd need to do to shoot for one of those schools. Depending on your financial situation, she might also qualify for large need-based scholarships through places like Questbridge, or sometimes the schools themselves. If that's not the path she wants, she'll likely be well served by the faster degree options, especially if she can get some internships. Although for a highschooler someone may have to pull strings.
I wouldn't go on this rant if she was looking at a technical (computer science, IT, cybersecurity) or professional (accounting, nursing, teaching, engineering, PT/OT) but the benefit business school is often much more about the social side of things than the actual material that gets taught. With that said, you know her situation better than I do. It's up to the two of you to make the call, you have great options before you, and I'm confident you two will make a good choice no matter what.
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