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Old 01-13-2008, 04:58 PM
gcalvin gcalvin is offline
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I'll give you the caveat that probably everybody will (or should): don't take anything you read here as gospel, and check everything with an advisor at the school or schools of your choice.

CLEP and DANTES can get you most of the way there, but probably will not be enough. All of the CLEP exams are lower level, and I don't think there are enough DANTES upper level exams to make up what you need. You will probably need to take some Excelsior College Exams (ECE) as well.

If you choose Excelsior College, there is the Written English Requirement, which no CLEP or DANTES exam can fulfill. Probably the easiest option there is the ECE English Composition exam. It's basically three essays in three hours, and it's worth 6 credits total.

If you go with the Excelsior Business program, you will have to take their Business Strategy online course, as there is no longer any exam to cover that requirement. This is a new requirement as of September of last year, if I recall correctly. It's a 15-week, 3-credit online course. Many of your other core business requirements are prerequisites.

If you pursue an Excelsior Liberal Arts degree, there is another new requirement as of this year -- Research and Writing in the Majors. This requires another one-credit course that mainly revolves around writing a 2000-word research paper. Information Literacy and the Written English Requirement are prerequisites, so you'll want to get them out of the way early.
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