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Questions about TESU & financial aid
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(02-19-2022, 01:19 PM)Risingstar Wrote: “This would be my suggestion to get 30 RA credits:
Take English Comp II OR Finite Math from Olivet Nazarine; ONU courses cost the same as TECEPs but are infinitely less pressure - especially since no money is due until you finish the course.” – With everything I have read I am confused. Is there another class you can recommend that would fulfill the needed credits?

ONU? Is that Ohio Northern University?

Unfortunately, you have filled out your gen ed requirements with mostly alternate credit and left the AOS unfinished. Gen ed courses are the cheapest and easiest to complete as RA credit. You are not going to find cheap and easy RA credit for the AOS, except as part of a flat-rate term from TESU. Ultimately, this means "overwriting" some of the alternate credit that you already have with inexpensive RA credit. 

Fortunately, ONU (which is Olivet Nazarene University) courses are only $50/credit. https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Ol...University 

Quote:I understand all of this. Right now, this sounds good, and I am conformable with this plan. I think it will be too heavy of a load to take them all at once. Unless that is not true. Please let me know. How can I break this up to make the most of the Pell Grant? This brings you up to 15 RA credits. Now, take a 16-credit-term that consists of:
Capstone
Cornerstone
Software Engineering
PHI-130 class OR the CIS-107 ePack
International Management
PLA-100

Based on prior feedback, this would actually not be that difficult. 

Week 1: Focus on the cornerstone & PLA-100. PLA-100 should take 8-10 hours to complete. You can mostly complete the cornerstone (except for discussion posts) within 1-2 days.
Week 2: Focus on Software Engineering & CIS-107 ePack - Software Engineering can be completed in 20-30 hours and the ePack is just one exam.
Week 3 onward: You now only have discussion posts for the cornerstone, International Management, and your paper for the capstone to finish. You may have to pay for an extension to the capstone, but that's only a few hundred and is still way cheaper than the residency waiver.

bjcheung77 has more information on how to maximize your Pell Grant by spreading the cost over multiple flat-rate terms, but I'm not sure how much money that actually saves (if any) at this point.
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(02-19-2022, 01:19 PM)Risingstar Wrote: Regarding the TECEPs I was thinking to give myself 2 more nontraditional course options for my AOS I could take Business in Society which will take the place of International Management and Managerial Communications which I can study through Study.com. Only thing is I have no study materials for Business in Society except for the one book TESU recommends. I am ok with spending a few hundred dollars extra to make it easy on myself.

I'm not ok with spending a few hundred dollars on books as you are lighting money on fire.

You can rent those books here or look for used books on eBay to buy:
https://www.amazon.com/Business-Society-...1305959825
https://www.amazon.com/Managerial-Commun...1483358550

A 16 credit term at TESU would be 15-20hr a week worth of work for 3 months.  That is a manageable workload.  

The idea with the CIS-107 ePack is to study before the term starts, then practice with the sample questions they give you, and you will be done with that ePack in the 1st month, lighting your load for the remainder of your term.
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International Management, which was recommended by others in this thread as a TESU course, is also a Zero Textbook Cost course.

https://www2.tesu.edu/zero-textbook-cost/list.php

(02-19-2022, 02:02 PM)LevelUP Wrote:
(02-19-2022, 01:19 PM)Risingstar Wrote: Regarding the TECEPs I was thinking to give myself 2 more nontraditional course options for my AOS I could take Business in Society which will take the place of International Management and Managerial Communications which I can study through Study.com. Only thing is I have no study materials for Business in Society except for the one book TESU recommends. I am ok with spending a few hundred dollars extra to make it easy on myself.

I'm not ok with spending a few hundred dollars on books as you are lighting money on fire.

You can rent those books here or look for used books on eBay to buy:
https://www.amazon.com/Business-Society-...1305959825
https://www.amazon.com/Managerial-Commun...1483358550

A 16 credit term at TESU would be 15-20hr a week worth of work for 3 months.  That is a manageable workload.  

The idea with the CIS-107 ePack is to study before the term starts, then practice with the sample questions they give you, and you will be done with that ePack in the 1st month, lighting your load for the remainder of your term.

If I remember correctly, I wasn't allowed to take e-Pack exams until halfway through the term.
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(02-19-2022, 02:02 PM)LevelUP Wrote:
(02-19-2022, 01:19 PM)Risingstar Wrote: Regarding the TECEPs I was thinking to give myself 2 more nontraditional course options for my AOS I could take Business in Society which will take the place of International Management and Managerial Communications which I can study through Study.com. Only thing is I have no study materials for Business in Society except for the one book TESU recommends. I am ok with spending a few hundred dollars extra to make it easy on myself.

I'm not ok with spending a few hundred dollars on books as you are lighting money on fire.

You can rent those books here or look for used books on eBay to buy:
https://www.amazon.com/Business-Society-...1305959825
https://www.amazon.com/Managerial-Commun...1483358550

A 16 credit term at TESU would be 15-20hr a week worth of work for 3 months.  That is a manageable workload.  

The idea with the CIS-107 ePack is to study before the term starts, then practice with the sample questions they give you, and you will be done with that ePack in the 1st month, lighting your load for the remainder of your term.

LevelUP Thank you for the info on the books. I hadn't thought about eBay or renting at all. So I was at a loss. No way would I spend money on books for school  Big Grin . I do for my personal learning. I think I was talking about repeating classes if that would make it easier for me to take AOS by alternative means. And thank you for letting me know the work load for the 16 credit term. I can totally do 15-20 hours a week for 3 months. You are right. That is manageable.

(02-19-2022, 02:39 PM)carrythenothing Wrote: International Management, which was recommended by others in this thread as a TESU course, is also a Zero Textbook Cost course.

https://www2.tesu.edu/zero-textbook-cost/list.php

(02-19-2022, 02:02 PM)LevelUP Wrote:
(02-19-2022, 01:19 PM)Risingstar Wrote: Regarding the TECEPs I was thinking to give myself 2 more nontraditional course options for my AOS I could take Business in Society which will take the place of International Management and Managerial Communications which I can study through Study.com. Only thing is I have no study materials for Business in Society except for the one book TESU recommends. I am ok with spending a few hundred dollars extra to make it easy on myself.

I'm not ok with spending a few hundred dollars on books as you are lighting money on fire.

You can rent those books here or look for used books on eBay to buy:
https://www.amazon.com/Business-Society-...1305959825
https://www.amazon.com/Managerial-Commun...1483358550

A 16 credit term at TESU would be 15-20hr a week worth of work for 3 months.  That is a manageable workload.  

The idea with the CIS-107 ePack is to study before the term starts, then practice with the sample questions they give you, and you will be done with that ePack in the 1st month, lighting your load for the remainder of your term.

If I remember correctly, I wasn't allowed to take e-Pack exams until halfway through the term.

Thank you!
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