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I need any associate's for work - oldguy4associate - 12-03-2022 Hello, I'm in the military and I'm a little bit older so an associate's will really help my ability to promote and get my career goals moving faster. I can take CLEP exams for free and would like to pursue that avenue as much as possible. The ultimate goal is a bachelor's a few years down the road, but I just want to focus on an associates right now. Your Location: Maryland Your Age: 30's What kind of degree do you want?: Any associate's Current Regional Accredited Credits: These are community college classes/credits from 15 + years ago. Intro to Psychology 3 Physical Science 3 Principles of Geography 3 English Comp 101 3 Music Appreciation 3 Current ACE, CLEP, or NCCRS Credits: 6 credits from my military training/JST I had an additional 6 credits from another course, but it recently and bizarrely downgraded to awarding zero credits. I just opened an inquiry with JST about it. Happy to add any more information. Thank you very much! RE: I need any associate's for work - rachel83az - 12-04-2022 Good news! You should be able to get the FREE Pierpont BOG AAS degree pretty quickly: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Pierpont_C%26TC You have enough CC credits already, just fill out the rest of the requirements with Sophia and you're good to go. Requirements:
RE: I need any associate's for work - oldguy4associate - 12-04-2022 (12-04-2022, 02:10 AM)rachel83az Wrote: Good news! You should be able to get the FREE Pierpont BOG AAS degree pretty quickly: https://degreeforum.miraheze.org/wiki/Pierpont_C%26TC Thank you Rachel. If I'm reading the link correctly, I still need 3 additional RA credits to fulfill residency? RE: I need any associate's for work - rachel83az - 12-04-2022 No, Pierpont only requires 3 graded RA credits right now. Everything else can come from Sophia or other ACE sources. This includes your JST/military credits. RE: I need any associate's for work - dfrecore - 12-04-2022 (12-04-2022, 11:16 AM)rachel83az Wrote: No, Pierpont only requires 3 graded RA credits right now. Everything else can come from Sophia or other ACE sources. This includes your JST/military credits. You should list your JST credits as well, as they may count towards something. Wondering how something can be downgraded, since it's based on when you complete a course, not what happens later. I would definitely press that issue. I think that between CLEP and Sophia, you can finish credits needed in a month or two. RE: I need any associate's for work - oldguy4associate - 12-04-2022 (12-04-2022, 02:27 PM)dfrecore Wrote:(12-04-2022, 11:16 AM)rachel83az Wrote: No, Pierpont only requires 3 graded RA credits right now. Everything else can come from Sophia or other ACE sources. This includes your JST/military credits. Hello dfrecore. I have JST's for aviation machinist mate A school and P8 powerplant 3 each. My basic training credits were downgraded to "not evaluated at this location". They were listed in the summary section in March, and I just looked again the other day and saw they were no longer valid. That's a loss of 6 credits. I entered the course code into the ACE website and it's listed. I think it's pretty weird and I'm not happy about it. I also have FEMA courses that I paid FCC to convert into 3 credits. I can easily get another 2 credits from required courses but from browsing the forum, they look to be worthless. |