New TESU Residency Requirement!!! 16cr, TECEP's do not count?!?

[TrailRunr]

I emailed TESU about adding an undergraduate certificate and which tuition plan it can be completed under. I was informed that the Enrolled Options Plan is being eliminated April 1st. It looks like they're combining the Enrolled Options Plan with the Per Credit Tuition Plan. For those who didn't want to take TESU courses, TECEPs, or complete portfolio assessments, this is a good deal. For those who wanted to use the Per Credit Tuition Plan, the process just got a little more expensive. I'm locked in under the old Per Credit Tuition Plan.

I just want to say I appreciate all the work you're putting into making all of these changes clearer. You will end up saving me a lot of money vs. blindly thinking EO will still be around.

[Mamasaphire]

Compared to 99.9% of other RA schools, it's a deal. I graduated from TESC before there was a Per Credit Tuition Plan. I paid almost $3,000 under the Enrolled Options Plan, but this was a lot cheaper than finishing my degree at most other schools. I did use money from a financial aid refund check from a community college to pay for it. That's the trick. Use your financial aid at the cheapest school you can find so that you will have leftover money.

Whether or not it would be cheaper to go to COSC or EC depends on the major and your transfer credits. For me, at the time, the UL credits at those two would have made the total cost of my degree higher than it was at TESC. It doesn't hurt to apply at the other two if you can afford the application and transcript fees.

I agree and I'm not saying that TESU isn't a good value overall, especially for those with multiple transfer credits (and especially for students who don't have a required Capstone/BSBA). It's surely made my 20+ year dream of a BA close to coming true (although unfortunately no extra money after taking CC courses b/c Pell Grant covered just each class and sometimes books). I was just confused by the statement

[craigfin]

I emailed TESU about adding an undergraduate certificate and which tuition plan it can be completed under. I was informed that the Enrolled Options Plan is being eliminated April 1st. It looks like they're combining the Enrolled Options Plan with the Per Credit Tuition Plan. For those who didn't want to take TESU courses, TECEPs, or complete portfolio assessments, this is a good deal. For those who wanted to use the Per Credit Tuition Plan, the process just got a little more expensive. I'm locked in under the old Per Credit Tuition Plan.

Asking for your opinion, since I already Enrolled (I switched over to the Enrolled Options March 16) in the Enrolled Options Plan and applied for Graduation (the June 10th graduation) I should be safe (grandfathered in)?

[davewill]

Asking for your opinion, since I already Enrolled (I switched over to the Enrolled Options March 16) in the Enrolled Options Plan and applied for Graduation (June 10th) I should be safe (grandfathered in)?

As long as you actually made the payment for the enrolled options plan you'll be fine.

[sanantone]

Asking for your opinion, since I already Enrolled (I switched over to the Enrolled Options March 16) in the Enrolled Options Plan and applied for Graduation (June 10th) I should be safe (grandfathered in)?

Only TESU can give you a definitive answer, but they can't take something away from you after you paid for it. It would break the contract they've made with you, and you would most likely win a lawsuit against them.

[SuzanneD]

I used my cc difference check to pay my enrollment fee too.

[dfrecore]

I'm a little confused what part you are referring to. What part is a deal? The option to do PLA even if you still have to do an additional 16 cr ($7984.00)? Or the ability to do PLA-200 ($998) & Portfolio ($379/12 cr if the price stays the same) and then pay the $2000 waiver, which makes it between $114 & $281/cr?

The deal is the price just for bringing in the PLA credits. You can't really count the waiver in with the cost for the credits. I mean, I guess you can, but really that's a separate issue. At this current time, you do not have to pay for PLA-200 if you take it somewhere else (like free at Kaplan), and you can bring in 12cr for $379. $31.58/cr is a great deal in my book.

With the new plan & residency waiver, to truly figure the cost for it, you would need to spread the $2000 fee across ALL of the credits you bring in. If you bring in 116cr, then it's adding an additional $17.25 or so per credit. If you compare this to getting a degree at an in-state 4-year college, it's a deal (and a LOT faster). The only way to get a cheaper 4-year degree is through a competency-based program, if you could find the time to dedicate yourself to it in a single term (I couldn't).

I agree that it stinks, and I wish the current Per-Credit Tuition Plan could go on forever, but it is what it is.

[craigfin]

Only TESU can give you a definitive answer, but they can't take something away from you after you paid for it. It would break the contract they've made with you, and you would most likely win a lawsuit against them.

Yes, fully paid, the Enrollment fee (total $1898) and Graduation fee ($312).

[Turkish]

So I wrote this information out in another thread, but I think it's pretty relevant here;

I called into the registrars office about another issue, which seems like it's going to get resolved. I asked about grandfathering in of TECEP residency acceptability and whether, since I'd applied to this school, was enrolled, taken TECEPs, etc.. they could still be taken for residency under the old curriculum. I was informed that TESU will no longer accept any TECEPs as residency credits. I'm not sure how this is going to go over with the student body, but if I had to guess, probably poorly for anyone that's registered under Per-Credit tuition.

Apparently they're working on sending out a message to everyone about this since enough people have been asking about it. We should see something this week. I'm not pleased about this as I saved my TECEPs for the end of my degree and focused on outside credits before changes were made.

[alzee]

I was informed that TESU will no longer accept any TECEPs as residency credits. I'm not sure how this is going to go over with the student body, but if I had to guess, probably poorly for anyone that's registered under Per-Credit tuition.

Yeah, this blows. I had just started figuring out what I was going to do about residency, as a per-credit enrolled student. My plan had boiled down to one course at TESC for 1500, and three TECEPs for 500. Now it's going to be 1500 for the one course, the 2000 waiver, and the rest of the credits wherever I can get them on the cheap, and no TECEPs unless I can't meet the degree requirement any other way.

What I'm looking for now is a course I can take at TESC under per-credit that is less than 3 credits; as in, just 1 or 2, since the only reason I'm taking any course through them is for the institutional GPA requirement.