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  TESC Upper Level (300 - 400) Class Source from Penn Foster
Posted by: jobee - 04-22-2011, 02:39 PM - Forum: [ARCHIVE] Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak Specific Discussion - Replies (5)

Howdy, I am interested in a second bachelors degree from TESC in advance of the MBA program I have been accepted to (I have free time). Someone mentioned that there is an ACE review of all PF classes pending. That would be good for them.

The TESCBA in Natural Sciences/Mathematics seems like a flexible program, and I will need 12 units in Upper Level (300,400) classes. I like the Penn Foster approach, does anyone know of PF classes that TESC transcribes in the upper level category?

They can be anything in biology, computer science, geology, physics, chemistry, environmental science, or mathematics.

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  Introduction to business DSST
Posted by: vetvso - 04-22-2011, 02:07 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion - Replies (9)

I have self tested with the Peterson off line test and received a 64% does this seem high enough to pass the main exam?

I have noticed that the Peterson offline tests seem harder than the real deal, does anyone have any feedback on this.

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  Humanities after Lit tests
Posted by: dackmolly - 04-22-2011, 09:12 AM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion - Replies (1)

If I have already taken all 3 lit CLEPs in the past month and a half [this should be true by next month! Big Grin] how difficult is Humanities CLEP?

My goal is to only study about a week/week and a half. How reasonable a goal is this?
(oh, btw: I am an aspiring music major, so the music aspect of humanities *should* be a breeze)

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  Straighterline Intro to Psychology or Biology??
Posted by: vsantos316 - 04-22-2011, 08:40 AM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion - Replies (13)

I am contemplating whether to take Bio or Psych..I am already enrolled for the month Sad just need to decide which course asap....

I was planning on buying the textbook for Psych but was contemplating buying the 9th edition rather than the 10th edition ( due to the cost)..do you think there is much difference?:confused:
I know for Bio. there is a free online textbook.

I haven't done biology or psych in 4 years..but i do still have to take 6 social science courses to graduate.

Has anyone taken intro to psych?

Which course would you recommend??

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  How to become computer proficient
Posted by: FinancialWorld - 04-22-2011, 08:34 AM - Forum: Off Topic - Replies (13)

Hellooooo everyone.

I was wondering how I can become more proficient and capable with computers. I've had my own computer for about 2 1/2 years now and I've had to reformat once (educating to say the least Big Grin ). My ability doesn't go much past general internet usage and using Word and a few other programs on my computer. I haven't really needed to do much more recently, but I want to start preparing and improving (planning ahead).

I'm planning on getting into brokering or trading as a career. Well, you need pretty good computer skills. Mine aren't great, and I'm also not sure what I need to get better or how to improve them.

Here are some things that I'm sure I'd like to learn or at least need to become really good at:
Microsoft Word (need to be expert at this)
Microsoft Excel (and this too)
Microsoft PowerPoint (yup, and this too)
Computer language (probably need to learn one, but not sure which one)
Programming (to create trading programs)
And any other things that might help me

Your ideas and help would be deeply appreciated.

Thanks,
FinancialWorld

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  Who needs Harvard?
Posted by: FinancialWorld - 04-22-2011, 07:59 AM - Forum: Off Topic - Replies (6)

I ran across this article on the internet. Its a few year old, but I believe its still relevant today. I think its an interesting article. A friend of mine really wanted to attend an ivy league school. He wanted to go for graduate study. I just don't think it'd be worth it.

So, are Ivy League school valued in the career world anymore? Maybe, but a lot less now. What do you think about them? As an employer, would you pick a big 3 school grad (or one of the other good online colleges) over an ivy league school grad? I know this subject has been beat to death around here a little, but I thought I'd approach it from the employer's perspective. Which one would I hire? I already know what I think, so I'll chime in later. What's your take on this?


[SIZE="4"][SIZE="2"]Who Needs Harvard?[/SIZE][/SIZE]
Why big corporations are hiring fewer Ivy Leaguers.
By Daniel Gross
Posted Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2005, at 3:50 PM ET

A coveted undergraduate admission to an Ivy League college is a ticket to success, right? But a recent paper by Peter Cappelli and Monika Hamori, both of the University of Pennsylvania, suggests that the prestigious degrees aren't as valuable at America's largest corporations as they were a generation ago. If you want to run GE, you might be better off attending the University of Connecticut than Yale.

Cappelli and Hamori compared the résumés of the top 10 executives at Fortune 100 companies—the 100 largest companies by revenue in the United States—in both 1980 and 2001. These were so-called "c-level posts"—CEO, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chief technology officer—plus division heads and senior vice presidents.
The figures tell a story of American business dynamism. In Joseph Schumpeter's great formulation, the top ranks of American business are like a hotel where the guests are always changing. Only 26 of the 1980 Fortune 100 companies retained their status in 2001. By 2001, the executives had also grown younger (the average of the sample fell by about four years). The executives were also much less likely to have been educated at an old Eastern university where pride in high SAT scores compensates for pathetic athletic teams and lame parties.
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Between 1980 and 2001, the percentage of top executives whose undergraduate degrees came from Ivy League schools fell by nearly a third from 14 percent to 10 percent. Others who paid through the nose for their sheepskins also lost ground. The percentage of top execs who attended private non-Ivy schools (Williams College, Notre Dame, Stanford, etc.) fell from 54 percent in 1980 to 42 percent in 2001. Meanwhile, the proportion of those who attended public universities soared from 32 percent to 48 percent. A similar dynamic was seen in graduate degrees as well: far fewer on a percentage basis from Ivy League schools and far more on a percentage basis from public universities.
At some level, this is a numbers game. While the Ivy League schools remain small and exclusive, public universities have been expanding rapidly, establishing new programs, and pumping more minnows into the corporate stream every year. Several Ivies don't have MBA programs, and there are top-notch business schools at Northwestern, Stanford, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, and University of Virginia. But the authors conclude that the shift has less to do with demographics and more to do with corporate practices. In other words, the bosses aren't as snowed by polished young Ivy grads as they were in the past.
I'd offer a couple of other, less quantifiable explanations. Something has changed about the character of the student bodies at many Ivy League schools in recent decades. With the rising ability of the wealthy to smooth the path to admission by paying private-school tuition and hiring college advisers and SAT-prep tutors—and with college tuition far outpacing financial aid growth—rich kids are more likely to get in, and to attend, Ivy League schools than in the past. A widely quoted study from the Century Foundation found that 74 percent of the students at 146 selective colleges surveyed came from the top socioeconomic quartile, while only 10 percent come from the bottom half! Harvard President Larry Summers devoted his 2004 commencement speech to this phenomenon. On a percentage basis, fewer Ivy League graduates than public school graduates today need to find stable, high-paying jobs at big companies. More of them can afford to traipse around Asia for a year or pursue a career in film-making. It could be that the already rich and comfortable are simply less interested in pursuing careers in large corporations than their less-comfortable public-school peers for purely economic reasons.
And for those Ivy League graduates eager to make their mark on the business world, things have changed as well. The Ivy League may no longer be the gatekeeper for management trainees at General Electric and Chevron. But it is most definitely gatekeeper for other elite employers: McKinsey & Co., Goldman, Sachs, private equity firms. A sharp kid with a degree in economics from Dartmouth is far less likely to seek a career at General Motors or American Express and far more likely to sign on with a venture capital firm or a hedge fund. An ambitious smoothie seeking to trade off reputation and old-school connections won't interview at Philip Morris or Wal-Mart, she'll interview at Boston Consulting Group or Morgan Stanley.
The numbers crunched by Cappelli and Hamori suggest that big-time corporate America is less interested in Ivy League students today than it was in the past. It could also be the other way around.

Here is the original link: Corporations shun the Ivy League. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

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  Free Excelsior College Degree
Posted by: Excelmywayup - 04-21-2011, 09:56 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion - Replies (8)

My Free Degree From Excelsior College

Hello All,

Instant Cert and Speedyprep will be my prep sources for the exams. So that is why you will encounter them next to the courses.

Bachelor of Science in Business, Concentration: General Business from Excelsior College

Arts and Science – 60 Needed

CLEP History of the United States I 3 Instant Cert
CLEP History of the United States II 3 Instant Cert
CLEP College Composition 3 Taken Class
CLEP Humanities 6 Instant Cert
CLEP Biology 6 Instant Cert
CLEP College Mathematics 6 Instant Cert
CLEP Introductory Psychology 3 SpeedyPrep
CLEP American Government 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Social Sciences and History 6 Book
CLEP Microeconomics 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Macroeconomics 3 Taken Class
CLEP Introductory Sociology 3 Instant Cert
CLEP American Literature 6 SpeedyPrep
CLEP College Algebra 3 Taken Class
DSST Principles of Statistics 3 Instant Cert or MAT-201 Statistics 3 Excelsior College

Career Component – 45 Needed (12 Upper)

CLEP Financial Accounting 3 Taken Class
CLEP Intro to Business Law 3 Taken Class
CLEP Information Systems 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Principles of Management 3 Instant Cert
CLEP Principles of Marketing 3 Instant Cert
DSST Principles of Finance 3 Instant Cert or BUS-350 Principles of Finance 3 Excelsior College
DSST Business Ethics Instant Cert or 3 BUS-323 Business Ethics 3 Excelsior College
BUS-553 Organizational Behavior 3 Excelsior College
ACC -212 Managerial Accounting 3 Excelsior College
BUS-520 Operations Management 3 Excelsior College
BUS-495 Business Strategy 3 Excelsior College
BUS-300 Introduction to Entrepreneurship 3 Excelsior College
BUS-312 Managing Human Resources 3 Excelsior College
BUS-310 Entrepreneurial Marketing 3 Excelsior College
DSST Management Information Systems 3 Instant Cert or BUS-452 Business Leadership 3 Excelsior College

Electives – 15 Needed ( May be Covered by Basic Training / AIT AARTS Transcript )

Information Literacy 1
CLEP Precalculus 3 Book
CLEP Natural Sciences 6 SpeedyPrep
CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 6 SpeedyPrep

Why will it be free?
All CLEPS and DSST are free to the Active Military aka me Active Army
Tuition Assistance will cover the rest. For free.
E-ArmyU through Excelsior will waive all enrollment, application, and administrative fees as long as I complete 18 credits with Excelsior College - some of my business classes.

The only out of pocket expenses I will be paying for, are for books and those won't even cost much on ebay.

My goal is to have all of my Excelsior classes be A's. Furthermore, every DSST or CLEP exam I have listed is either pass or fail to Excelsior which means it will not affect my GPA either way.

Tell me what you thinkSmile

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  ???s re: Straighterline Accounting & TESC
Posted by: robsteffens - 04-21-2011, 04:12 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion - Replies (4)

I'm working towards an ASBA from TESC, and have a question concerning their accounting requirements.

The required accounting courses are Principles of Financial Accounting & Principles of Managerial accounting.

1) Will Straighterline Accounting I and II work?

2) Does SL Accounting I equate to Financial, and II equate to Managerial?

If SL I and II works, why would someone take those instead of SL Financial and Managerial?

Thanks so much!

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  TESC/ Aleks & Intermediate Algebra
Posted by: GoodtoGo - 04-21-2011, 02:35 PM - Forum: [ARCHIVE] Excelsior, Thomas Edison, and Charter Oak Specific Discussion - Replies (19)

The ALEKS Website shows that Intermediate Algebra is ACE approved. Does anyone know if TESC accepts it when the degree requirement says 3 credits of "College Math" are needed? I just enrolled at TESC yesterday, so I don't have an advisor yet to ask.
Thank you!

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  DSST Personal Finance
Posted by: thejoanster - 04-21-2011, 01:58 PM - Forum: General Education-Related Discussion - Replies (5)

I am new to instacert and want everyone's opinion on Personal Finance. I have used the falsh cards for a few days and can answer most of them. When will I know if I am ready? I am a 37 year old who works at a bank so out of the gate I could answer 50% of the flash cards.

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