Is anyone familiar with bain4weeks.com-share your stories!

[malcs]

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I'm not trying to be argumentative- really- but the speed at which you complete your degree has no impact on anything. If you completed your degree through testing in 4 years, and Lawrie completed his through testing in 4 weeks, you got the same degree. (no "hard way" or "easy way" about it)

Well, think about CLEPping vs traditional school.
My college days a long time ago consisted of:
- parents money
- dating
- 15 credits/semester
- stopping at the diner on the way to school
- hanging out in the quad between classes
- going to clubs
- having a beer at the rat
- oh, and going to classes

CLEPping typically consists of:
- your own money
- researching schools that fit your situation
- your own degree planning
- negotiating with the big three about overlap, etc.
- checking that your exams get posted
- pacing yourself
- knowing when you are ready to test
- finding appropriate and economic study material
- figuring out the breadth of the exam so you don't over/understudy
- researching subjects yourself because there is often nobody to ask
- taking an all-or-nothing final
- lining up the next subject's materials two weeks in advance
- finding enough exams for a subject to create an area of concentration, without infinite choices
- rejection of D grades (at EC, not sure about others)

So, in my opinion this is the harder way to go. The upside is that you can finish a degree at your own pace, which often means doing it in 1/3 of the time.

The net benefit of this approach is that you become so efficient when you apply this method in other situations. I am now looking at some Microsoft certification books that used to look so dense. They now look like the pages are filled with loose fluff.