Looking for advise/help to get me started.

[cooperalex2004]

I am not quite understanding the credit transfer you listed below. If my GEO-101 "Principles of Geo" was a 4 credit course how does that equate to 2.66 credits? If the TESC course PSY-101 "Intro to Psyc" is 3 Credits and you say my PS-100 counts as 2.66 credits what happens to the .33 remaining credits? Do I get credit for the course or still need additional credits to makeup the difference?


Also, I really can't figure out which is going to be more cost effective for me to go with TESC or ECE? My goal will be to take as many CLEP,DSST,SL, etc tests and avoid what I believe to be the higher cost ECE test costs/classes.
Thanks,

My understanding is that EC is cheaper, but I went the TESC route. As for your credits, since you have quarter credits they translate to semester credits before they can be used. 4 quarter credits = 2.66 semester credits. You basically have a bad situation here where most schools I've seen now use the semester hours system and your credits do transfer but don't fit together nicely. Basically when you fill in the rest of your credits, the converted quarter hours do apply but in a case like your Geology course it isn't enough to fill in the 3 credit requirement. What you'd end up doing is filling those areas in with tests or new courses, and then whatever is left over would fill in as needed. Most people don't have quarter hours floating around on here so the advice on that is kind of lacking, as for your degree you can use them, they just are kind of a pain to calculate.

Here is an example of what I mean, lets say you want to do the business degree, here is an example of how you can use your credits to fit in:

ENGLISH COMP (6)- ENC-101, ENC-102 - Fill with CLEP College Composition, or take the course somewhere
HUMANITIES (12) -
---Managerial Business Comm (3, mandatory)
---Other Humanities Electives (9), pick tests, courses, or PLA's to fill in
SOCIAL SCIENCES (12) -
---Macro Econ (3, mandatory)
---Micro Econ (3, mandatory)
---Intro to Psychology (2.66 credits)
---Intro to Sociology (2.66 credits)
---History Elective HIS-199 (.68 credits [partial credit])
NATSCI/MATH (9)
---Precalc (3, mandatory)
---Stats (3, mandatory)
---Intro to Computing (3, DSST Exam) - You can use any non-mathematics nat sci area including computer science!
GENERAL ED ELECTIVES (21)
---History Elective HIS-199 (1.98 credits [left over from above])
---Intro to Theater (2.66 credits)
---Intro to Geology (2.66 credits)
---13.7 more credits needed in general ed elective areas

You've got some usable credits, they just are kind of mess once they translate into semester hours. An "extra" credits will rollover to the general ed elective area (as see with HIS-199). To answer your other question, a 2.66 credit course will not satisfy a 3 credit requirement so you'll have take some other courses or exams. My only other thought is that you could decided to not transfer those credits in and instead test out of related exams. You could test of Natural Sciences (6 credits), Psych (3 credits), Sociology (3 credits), and History I & II (total 6 credits) and be far ahead on credits. Just note that credits will conflict (duplicate) if you try to test out after bringing those old credits over. You've got a start, you need to pick a school (get some advice from an EC student if you want more on their school), and then you can put together the full degree plan.