Major career change, cosmetology to MSW/LMSW

[bonjourcat]

The degreeforum community has worked out tactics and found from experience that programs like the UMPI YourPace bachelor's are so self-paced and accelerable that the time savings, compared to a traditional schedule, from accelerating a non-BSW bachelor's, then applying to a non-accelerated MSW, seem likely to equal or exceed the time savings from taking a traditional-schedule BSW, then an accelerated (advanced standing) MSW. The first option also seems likely to have cost savings.

The time savings I think in my case outweighs the cost savings. We’ll have a kindergartener in two years and I know once she starts school full time it will be a lot harder for me to prioritize time to study and finish my degree. 

I think what felt most disappointing about my initial college experience was the lack of being able to do things at your own pace and a lot of it was stuff I had done in high school. IIRC MSU didn’t consider a passing AP test for credit and instead treated it like you tested out of the class. I wrote it all off because it seemed like such a waste of time and money and energy.