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Geezer · #5 (**permalink**) 06-10-2008, 01:53 PM

I started my degree in fall 1976. It took me three years to accumulate enough credit for an A.A. then I stopped. I resumed my college career in January 2007 because I wanted to see what my boys IT curriculum was like and I wanted to finish my bachelors, fully expecting it would take at least 3 or 4 years.

My Waterloo came when I went into the local community college in May 2007 and tried to sign up for an Algebra class, since that was a requirement to enter a 4 year program here in Florida. Not only would the "guidance counselor" not let me sign up, she insisted that I take a remedial non-credit class first. I thought there must be a better way and thats when I discovered Instacert.

Suddenly I realized I could get a Business degree from Excelsior. From June 2007 to December 2007 I took and passed 19 CLEP, Dantes, EXE and TECEP tests for a total of 69 credits. The Statistics was not as much of a problem for me primarily because I focused on the "easier" (for me) sections.

For the algebra requirement I took Technical Math 1 from Penn Foster. I also too the Finance and Literacy requirment from them as well. If you do a site search on Technical Math 1, you will read about many mathphobes who successfully completed the course and were awarded credit.

I graduated in January from Excelsior with a BS Business degree.

Sorry about the long post, but I wanted to share that it is definititely doable if you stick close to this forum and all it has to offer.

Good luck on your journey!