01-06-2023, 08:04 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-06-2023, 08:05 PM by wildebeest.)
(01-05-2023, 05:04 PM)dfrecore Wrote: I would say that if you want to get into a top-tier school, a degree from TESU/EU/WGU will not necessarily HELP you, but they may HURT you - mostly because you're going to be doing a degree via alt-credit, which does not give grades. If I wanted to go to a school like that, I'd probably choose a school where I had at least 30 if not 60 graded credits, with most being A's.
There are schools we discuss on here, which will take a lot of alt-credit, but which also offer many more graded credits, which are much more helpful to applying to top schools.
No, you cannot take courses on campus at TESU, EU, or WGU (except if you're a nursing student at EU or TESU, in which case you would be spending a lot of money and taking all of your nursing courses on campus or in a clinical setting).
This is probably true, and I will also note that even less than top tier schools may want to know how you did on your alt credits. For instance, I enrolled in a program at Eastern Illinois University (a perfectly good state school, which I am enjoying, but they're not nipping at Harvard's heels), and they required I send a graded transcript from Study.com so they could calculate my overall GPA. This isn't a reason not to do alt credits, but I think it's a very good reason to aim higher than bare minimum P grades.
Master of Arts in Political Science: Public Administration & Public Policy, Eastern Illinois University
Bachelor of Arts in History & Political Science, University of Maine at Presque Isle
Bachelor of Arts in History & Political Science, University of Maine at Presque Isle