Help me !!!!

[threedogs]

I'm 22, currently going to CC in Seattle, WA. I only have 25 credits (quarter credits which would be 16-point-something semester credits) and I'm getting very sick of community college and want to fast track my education. Something I'm sure a lot of you could relate too.

I've always tested exceptionally well, and my entire senior year of high school I completed in about a month through BYU Independent Study (distance learning). When I heard about CLEP testing I checked to see if my CC offered credit for it, which they don't. Then I began researching and came across the "big three".

SO now I'm considering transferring to one of the "big three", to test out of a lot of my credits and fast track through my BA (probably doing poly sci, but maybe even history or psych).

Hi Rousseau!

I think it's great that you realize there is an alternative way to get your degree - and I also totally understand your frustration at community college. I've been attending my local CC and am fed up with it, between the problems in administration, with financial aid, and then, outside of a few challenging classes, there was the lack of creative thought and the instructors who seem to be just waiting for retirement. banghead

That's why I'm here - to find another way. :willynilly:

Anyway, I know from my own experience that the majority of those in education today are about twenty years behind the times when it come to technology. So it doesn't surprise me that they haven't updated the info on the collegeboard site. Not one bit.

needless ramble: I almost have nightmares about the workstudy I had once. Worked for a professor - she had piles upon piles of paperwork that would make forests weep. In her files, there were many copies of emails that were five, six or more years old. Pages of links to websites that old (I was sure they were all gone)... every time she had me check her emails, she'd ask me to print a copy.. oh, the wasted paper in that office alone. Now the school has gone 'green', and I'm sure they've printed up lots of flyers about it. :ack:

Sorry for the ramble - back to you. If you are going to do one of the big three, you can take the Clep tests and enroll after you've gathered up a bunch. You also could look into B&M colleges that offer online degrees. For an Associates, you'll see that some have enrolled in Clovis Community College (NM). They only charge a little more than $200 for up to 7 credits for out of state residents. These could transfer to the big three, or others, depending on what you take, your major, and the college you choose. Geezer also had a good suggestion - transfer after getting your Associates to Harvard Extension. Their online degrees aren't totally online, though - they require some on campus/residency classes. The thing about HES though - if you get an associates with good grades & get into Phi Theta Kappa, PTK has a scholarship available for the first three classes (requirement before you enroll in a degree program), then there's the opportunity to apply for PTK to pay for half tuition for the degree. In other words, it would be so affordable coming to Cambridge for a semester or two would be feasible.

Some other B & M colleges that have online degrees you might want to look into (they cost less than most, too) Peru State College, Columbia College. I like Peterson's search engine for online programs, too.

In the end, where you choose to go to school should be your decision, and only your decision, along with what you decide to major in. Not your family or anyone else, for that matter.

Best of luck - and make sure you have fun, too!