Fastest second AA you can get if you already have a first AA ?

[ctcarl]

the BOG degree requires that you do not have any previous degrees.

Link, please

[bjcheung77]

Here's a link: https://secure.cfwv.com/Home/Board_of_Governors.aspx

[StoicJ]

Title asks for fastest, but 1st post asks about cheapest. I don't know where you got the 1st associate degree or how you got your credits.

- I suppose it's POSSIBLE the same institution will award a 2nd AA.

- If you transferred 75% of your credits to a local CC, you might be able to knock out 5 CS courses quickly. I completed 5 CS courses in one CC semester. Didn't know it at the time, but if I'd have added an easy Computer Hardware course I would have met the requirements for an AACS  . 15 CS credits at one of my local schools would run about $1250, plus books.

- Don't forget there are some inexpensive NA schools out there.

[nyvrem]

oh haha my bad. i wanted to say fastest and something 'cheap'

also i found out, i could go back to my previous CC, and take a second AA from them and graduate with a second AA. i need a minimum of 15 credits for a second AA. so i'll prob look into that.

[ctcarl]

Here's a link: https://secure.cfwv.com/Home/Board_of_Governors.aspx

Thanks for sharing that, BJ.  It's interesting!  I've either set up or helped to set up three Pierpont BOG enrollments and studied their website carefully without seeing any reference to this at all, despite the fact that it is mentioned here fairly regularly.  I was starting to think this was one of those "it's illegal to drive with your shoes off" kind of things.

That said, it's pretty clear that if this is in fact an official rule at every WV community college, it's a pro forma policy, not a de facto one.  The creator of the longest BOG AAS thread on this site says in the first sentence of the first post that he had both grad and undergrad degrees before starting the program and successfully earning the degree.

[bjcheung77]

Yes, the original poster - DeanLewis is a strange one, err... I should say his situation is strange and non-traditional. Yes, he did complete his MA before his BALS at TESU and he completed the BOG AAS last. Having said that, it's the conferral date and the date he applied for graduation for each of these are in another sequence - in reverse order.

Essentially, DL completed his MA then completed his BALS requirements, sent his transcripts to Pierpont and requested a Pierpont graduation, TESU graduation, lastly his MA graduation. The reason is because his MA date of commencement/graduation is on a slower system and the earliest he can graduate would be a later date than his TESU graduation.

There are several ways of getting the BOG AAS, but each situation would be different. Another example would be for individuals who have completed a Nationally Accredited Bachelors after accumulating 60+ RA credits and would like a Regionally Accredited Associates for amazingly cheap, the reason this works is because a vast majority of NA do not participate in the National Student Clearing House.