Anyone know of someone get a federal job with CLEP/DSST on transcript?

[StudiousME]

I am active duty Navy working towards a degree in Business Administration/Accounting. As soon as I get my degree (NLT Sept 2012) I plan to apply for a few federal jobs that require transcripts. Would the CLEP/DSST and SL course have a negative effect?

Also not sure whether COSC or TESC for degree.

[sanantone]

From my experience, you can still get referred to hiring officials if you meet the minimum requirements. I don't know if it affects your chances of getting an interview. Some government jobs require a minimum GPA. There are instances where you need at least one year of graduate school to qualify for a GS-6 opening, but you can also qualify by having a bachelor's degree with a certain overall, major, or last 60 hours GPA. In that case, you cannot qualify with superior academic achievement if more than 10% of your degree was completed with non-graded courses.

Whether or not you should choose COSC or TESC depends on how quickly you want to finish and which classes you want to avoid. TESC requires higher math courses than COSC for the business degree. So, if you really can't get through pre-calculus, choose COSC. COSC is a little bit cheaper than TESC unless you have to take several courses from the school; then, COSC becomes more expensive. COSC requires that you take a cornerstone and capstone course at COSC while TESC does not have any of those requirements for business programs; you can transfer or test out of every course. TESC is also more liberal when it comes to accepting lower level credits as upper level, but COSC has better customer service.

[dcan]

Great advice as usual. Also, you can sidestep the TESC precal requirement by taking trigonometry at your own pace with untimed, unproctored exams through ALEKS. It is accepted as pre-cal at TESC.