Bobsleigh - Degree Planning Advice - Help Please

[rachel83az]

just about any Bachelor degree , online most likable

WV has 7 colleges with BOG AAS and nowhere is it free anymore for out of state students unless you count using a Pell grant as free since there is a 3 to 12 class residency requirement in each college

Pierpont is free if they are your first Associate. They DO NOT HAVE A RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT. I don't know where you got that idea.

if looking at my credits from Itawamba transcripts, shows 98 semester credits without any 300 level classes unless some transfer at the 300 level somewhere else

If all of your current credits are LL, you must ignore them and be willing to lose most of them. They are going to be utterly useless except as electives or gen eds.

I had enough Child Development and Early Education credits plus the other lower level credits to maybe spam the lower level classes of 2 degrees 

This depends on the school. I am not going to look again, but I think no. You have taken a lot of classes that are going to be useless everywhere.

UMPI requires 30 credits in class residency online or in person 

Technically true. But YourPace is ONLY online. Most students are able to finish in 2 or 3 sessions for a total of $3000 or $4500.

so I reckon I might have 5th year FAFSA aid or Graduate level aid left but otherwise am down to the Pell grant or other type aid

What? This makes no sense.

I'm open to suggestions, I think I did see Child Development or Early Education at TESC and COSC but Excelsior also has a 30 credit class residency

Your Child Development/Early Education classes are USESLESS at this point. Stop clinging to them.

You cannot get a COSC degree if you have NO upper level credit.

None of these schools have a 30 credit residency requirement. Especially not Excelsior.

I know theres other colleges that I could get a duo Bachelor-Master program but TESC or COSC sounds okay too if there's enough FinAid 

No.

I have a reverse transfer Associates about bagged up if going into classes and having a new class transcript or grades they can evaluate

This is expensive! It uses up more of your budget if you have to take more classes. WHY? DO NOT DO THIS!!!!

so something cheap, preferably competency based, using what I have already, is ideal

Pierpont BOG AAS.

UMPI Something; maybe BLS Educational Studies if you really want.

Those are your best choices. But you have to forget about the ECE classes you already took. Pretend they do not exist.

Almost everyone has completed at least one class that wound up not fitting their final degree plan.

Move forward.

Stop looking backward.

You cannot undo taking those classes.

But you can chart a new and better path to a degree.