05-10-2010, 10:06 PM
This sucks to the nth degree. I guess I too have to hurry up and enroll in order to "lock myself in to a grandfathered situation". I want a math degree. I have almost three years done through B&M classes. Yet I'm not even close to graduating by any measure: time, money, whatever.
I looked at all my options and realized that I could clear my major (math) and all remaining "buffer" credits to get up to 120 by just using the GRE subjects for math and something else. I decided to not just take it easy for the "something else", so I've taken the psych GRE twice now. I got 27 credits awarded on the first try and expect to get the full 30 when my scores come in on the second. But I still have to take the math GRE, which was what I want to graduate with. Am I now going to end up with a bachelor's in psych alone? That has nothing to do with my job history or future.
Online majors are not created equal. Business administration and comp sci/I.T. are a dime a dozen. Pure math? Almost non-existent. I don't have the same situation I did six, seven, eight years ago. I live 45 miles from their campus. They have NEVER offered ANYTHING I could use for my major online. It'll cost me at least another $9000 to take classes, basically one at a time for two years, in order to finish. All the other close, private colleges are more expensive. Like a lot of people here I have real-life stuff that trumps this stuff: way underemployed to what I used to be, a mortgage on a house that's underwater, etc. The subject GREs were a godsend. This could be the nail in the coffin.
Hopefully NAP has the right idea. This is brand new, and almost all schools are lenient on students with respect to graduating under the rules that were in place when they became students. Maybe I can get enrolled in the next couple of weeks and they'll still let me take the math GRE this fall. (crosses fingers)
I looked at all my options and realized that I could clear my major (math) and all remaining "buffer" credits to get up to 120 by just using the GRE subjects for math and something else. I decided to not just take it easy for the "something else", so I've taken the psych GRE twice now. I got 27 credits awarded on the first try and expect to get the full 30 when my scores come in on the second. But I still have to take the math GRE, which was what I want to graduate with. Am I now going to end up with a bachelor's in psych alone? That has nothing to do with my job history or future.
Online majors are not created equal. Business administration and comp sci/I.T. are a dime a dozen. Pure math? Almost non-existent. I don't have the same situation I did six, seven, eight years ago. I live 45 miles from their campus. They have NEVER offered ANYTHING I could use for my major online. It'll cost me at least another $9000 to take classes, basically one at a time for two years, in order to finish. All the other close, private colleges are more expensive. Like a lot of people here I have real-life stuff that trumps this stuff: way underemployed to what I used to be, a mortgage on a house that's underwater, etc. The subject GREs were a godsend. This could be the nail in the coffin.
Hopefully NAP has the right idea. This is brand new, and almost all schools are lenient on students with respect to graduating under the rules that were in place when they became students. Maybe I can get enrolled in the next couple of weeks and they'll still let me take the math GRE this fall. (crosses fingers)
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