Major career change, cosmetology to MSW/LMSW

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For your bachelor's, UMPI through their YourPace competency-based education (CBE) program is a great school choice, and their BA in Psychology is your most on-point degree there.

Before enrolling at UMPI, you can start earning credits to meet their general education requirements and to fill the general elective space in your degree elsewhere. Most of the Psychology major, you would complete from UMPI.

Sophia, an alt-credit provider – meaning it isn't an accredited college itself, but its courses are recommended for college credit by one of the two national agencies that review such courses, in this case the largest one, the American Council on Education (ACE) – is the most popular way right now to complete most gen eds and free electives prior to enrollment at UMPI.

You were lucky to come across that post by studyingfortests. Check out studyingfortests' advice on this recent thread for an MSW seeker too.

Thank you for your reply! Re: completing gen eds — is the ACE route similar to CLEP? I took five AP tests in high school with four 5’s and one 4 so I imagine I’m still a great test taker. I was wondering how easily or far I could CLEP myself forward, but I don’t know if that’s super lofty and I don’t want to skip anything that I really should take a class for. I’m mostly wanting to miss having to take the gen eds so your reply feels really spot on. 

As far as transferring from UMPI to WSU I’m assuming I can ask Wayne if they accept those transfer credits right? I’ve read conflicting information on “really super extra making sure your credits are legit and will transfer” etc. and I want to make sure I’m doing things the correct way so I don’t have to repeat anything.