The Duggars and CollegePlus

[Jonathan Whatley]

Well,

Pell Grant helps pay and you have to take 4 years or close to it because you have to take actual scheduled classes due to not enough CBEs accepted.

Pell Grants are available for scheduled courses from every Big Three school. There may be a minimum course load like 6 sh per semester. Even with this, and a CBE-heavy degree, this could help an eligible student to pay for the capstone, for instance, and one other course that term.

Further, Charter Oak at least is apparently great about assigning Pell and other federal financial aid onward to other schools through "consortium agreements." This way, a student enrolled at COSC can apply their aid to courses from other cooperating schools and transfer their courses back to COSC. These courses may be in subjects COSC doesn't offer in-house, they may have lower tuition rates than COSC, etc. rebel100 is the master of this approach.

Meanwhile, you're still at a Big Three school and you can accelerate as much as possible through CBE.