Jumping in, HELP!!

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At 36 years old, I have decided to pursue a degree.

I have been researching the best way to do so and I believe that "Testing Out" is the quickest and most affordable option. I signed up with Instacert to help me study so I can obtain credits quickly thru CLEP and DAANTES.

I would like to get opinions on the best school to do this through, right now I am considering Exelsior or Charter Oak, should I look at any others?

I am having a hard time deciding on what type of degree I want, I currently work in Law Enforcement, my coworkers and others tell me that a degree in criminal justice is useless. Is this true?

I am thinking about a business degree, but my math skills are 6th grade at best.

I would eventually like to attend law school, right now it is only a thought, I don't know if obtaining a degree mostly thru testing will be acceptable for admission.

Any advice, tips or techniques would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

A criminal justice degree is by far useless, it really depends on what you want to do with the degree though. Whatever you do, pick something, I would not declare liberal arts, as that is a useless major. If you want to attempt to get into law school, then criminal justice or political science would be the way to go.

If law school is really what you want to do, I would be scared going to one of these online schools or even testing out of your core classes. As you probally will not get accepted into law school, and even if you do, you will have a hell of a time getting a good score on the LSAT and eventually the BAR.

If business is what you want to do go for it. There is not a lot math in business, I believe just business calculus and maybe algebra? If you spend time studying and getting help at the math lab or any other resource available you should do fine.

Hope this helps!