RBOWMAN Wrote:LOL - I just love this one too: "But is it a real degree?" :mad:
ShotoJuku Wrote:And I smile back and say' Yes, but I am not paying the $40,000.00 in student loans that everyone else is..so I guess I passed the finance course too!!!!!hilarious
Ha ha ha ha!
My sister-in-law is working on her Psychology degree at a local college. This is her first semester and she is taking Intro to Psych, and English Composition.
She began the two courses in January and will finish them by the end of this month. She has been working her way through text books, weekly classes, papers, quizzes, midterms, and finals etc. I think she is going to do very well in both courses. But she has also had to pay a lot of money for just these two courses, and textbook costs are on top of any course fees she has to pay.
I have explained the testing alternative, and even offered to help her prepare for her first exam. Her college accepts up to 60 credits via CLEP/DANTES. That means she could earn up to half her degree just by testing out of courses.
But she doesn't seem to be able to work up the courage to try even one CLEP exam. I have earned 61 credits since November, and she has earned 6 credits since January. She has spent a few hundred dollars for her six credits, and I have spent a few hundred dollars for my 61 credits.
I can understand her anxiety about taking the very first exam, but I don't understand her reluctance to even TRY just one exam to see if she can do it!
At the rate of two courses per semester, she will complete here degree some time in the year 2021 (15 years from now), at a cost well in excess of $30,000. The math just doesn't add up.
I haven't given up hope that she will see the light though. :p